Check out Hamza Khan's new political social media initiative: "Who's best for MoCo?"
http://bit.ly/dge4zn

Our team has sent reps to Annapolis to Governor O'Malley's official candidacy filing.

http://bit.ly/cBHTQr Like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and LikedIn have a "shelf life". Make sure your company stays "fresh"!

http://bit.ly/agGDnH "Governor's Race Even Tighter". Could the margin of error be the deciding factor?

just a company of young professionals trying to make a difference

Busy, Busy. Busy!!

Very productive day :)

Dear country, PLEASE STOP trying to cut the budget on programs that really need more. http://bit.ly/bo9f81

love good news!!

put together a new team. looking forward to being the best political consultants again tm!!!

Sine Die in Annapolis!

Happy Maryland Day!

It was a great AIPAC Policy Conference this year. Looking forward to being back again next year.

AIPAC President David Victor speaking right now.

Terrific sessions and meetings so far here at AIPAC Policy Conference. Love the weather.

Over 200 Muslim Marylanders advocated tonight for a better state.. Bravo.

On our way to Annapolis to support the Muslim Community IslamServes

We had a great time today at Senator Mikulski's event!

We're in a strategy meeting all evening starting at 630.

@ the Jewish Community's Lobbying Day in Annapolis!

Exciting week ahead!

Grand Opening @ 10:30am!

Look: We're Not Like Any Other Consultant You're Going To Hire

People have a tendency to either fear the unknown or in a business deal fear being swindled by the unknown.
That definitely happens in Social Media, and Political Consulting.

The idea behind social media for me is a lot more about creating a culture of ethics in our world than simply earning a paycheck from consulting businesses and public figures.

We're standing on the edge of a cultural revolution. The way we do business isn't the only thing changing. The way we elect our leaders and talk about national concerns are, too.

Every day there dozens of hearings on Capitol Hill on topics ranging from Facebook usage in Iran to poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine the impact if these could live-streamed for free over YouTube?

In 2009, Boston College stopped issuing email addresses. Why? Because Generation Y'ers aren't looking to show off that they go to Boston to job recruiters and intern scouts--that's why we have resumes. Our value system is different: if you're worth our time, we'll make sure you know: through Facebook. Gmail made it cool to use a non-proprietor email address, and we still use our Gmail account extensively here at the firm.

Back to what we do.


Social Media Consulting is a form of Social Entrepreneurship. By designing a strategy for a candidate share their message over Orkut.com and Facebook .com, we're making politics better. Why? Because we're giving Mr. Smith the ability speak directly to his electorate for pennies on the dollar when compared to Television and Radio ads. By helping Mr. Smith have a shot at being elected, we're leveling the playing field to have a Citizens' Congress, not an "old boys club" in Annapolis, Washington or anywhere else.


By helping a small business establish its LinkedIn.com and Twitter.com following, we're giving Main Street a fighting chance against the national franchise that opened up next door. 


And by helping a local homeless shelter raise awareness to local press and other traditional media, we're helping niche causes inspire mainstream audiences. 


That's the power of Social Media, and the power of my generation's printing press.
The YouTube clip below is a little boring, but it's aimed at people who want to think deeper about just what Social Media is doing to how businesses live and breathe in America:

Virginia Business - News: Survey finds small businesses have doubled their use of social media

Virginia Business - News: Survey finds small businesses have doubled their use of social media

Businesses are quickly hiring consultants to figure out how to take advantage of the modern printing press.

Social Media is the greatest innovation since it became a serious field. And it has the power to completely

change how we view business and economics.

Who should attend our open house

Business Leaders, Politicos, Politicians, Diplomats...

Lawyers, Journalists, Accountants, Community Group Leaders...

Why should you come? The applications benefit them. Social media is an ever growing area that applies to politics and businesses. Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkdin and YouTube have really expanded business opportunities for Americans over the past several years. These networking sites can help politicians reach a whole new demographic, specifically the young American generation.

Generation Y is the FUTURE. Reaching this demographic could change our future, for the better. These kids are going to be controlling our world and they best go in well equipped. You can also learn about

Click here for our Press Release for our Grand Opening on Saturday.

TO RSVP, WRITE TO:

MDCAMPAIGNSHQ@GMAIL.COM

Breaking through the noise of social media - latimes.com

Even the L.A. Times is taking Social Media seriously.

Shouldn't You?

Breaking through the noise of social media - latimes.com

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Think Your Mosque, Synagogue or Church Doesn't Need Social Media?

Well, think again.



Alex Brown used social media to impact how people treat their horses.
What could your organization do to impact how people treat each other?

Alex benefited from something most religious institutions don't: he was a professor of internet marketing. Meaning: the internet was a daily part of his life. More than likely, a religious institution's staff doesn't have the hours in the day to design, implement,  and manage a social media campaign.

We do.
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(301) 441-8800

Did You Know?

We produced more unique information in 2008 than in the 5,000 years before that point in time combined.





Welcome to the Information Age

Check out our new post on Social Media:
http://tinyurl.com/yfqowjg

"It's a PEOPLE DRIVEN economy, stupid."

-Erik Qualman, 2009.


Social Media  is Generation Y's printing press.
It isn't a fad. It isn't temporary. It's the beginning of the people driven economy.

What does that mean?

By the end of this decade, consumers and electorates will access in real-time to just about all the information they need to make a decision about who to vote for, and what child-labor backed companies to boycott. And they'll be getting this information through word of mouth, blogs, Twitter and yes, even Facebook.

This poses a huge problem for corporate giants and "election-favorite" candidates.

Why? 

Because now people can organize and respond to something they don't like in real time.
That means a serious restructuring of our economy and political culture in the next 30 years, and that small businesses and dark horse candidates have a much more equal playing field if they're aimed at becoming regional powerhouses and world leaders.

Mr Smith and Mr. Bailey Finally Have A Chance.

This video is from the activist website MOVE YOUR MONEY. MOVE YOUR MONEY focuses on getting Americans to take action against what it perceives as gross excesses by banking giants by getting everyday Americans to move their money to local community banks. It focuses on the theme that community banks look out for the little guy, while large banks have only one rationale: greed.

It's hosted on the popular social/new media site, YouTube, where it has around 500,000 views from site users with and without YouTube accounts.

What's so important about it?

About a month later during the State of the Union, President Obama announced his intention to divert TARP funds to help community banks lend more to "the people who need it most". We can only wonder where the administration might have gotten that idea. The otherwise neglected industry of community banks and savings & loans now have regular meetings with administration officials, as well as national attention to their brand(s), in part because of social media tools like the YouTube video above.

Social Media tools allow for the dissemination of information in real-time. Better than any other mode of communication we have out there (unless you believe in telepathy). It means that we're becoming a people-driven economy, where the consumer has a lot more power than the institutions they interact with.
Companies and politicians who don't take heed of that do so at their own peril.

What is Generation Y?

Social scientists like to categorize people born within a 15-25 year period as a "generation". 


Sociologists do this by looking at the major social and behavioral trends that were happening during the formative years of the lives of the people in the generation. 


Generation Y, or the Net Generation is the generation of young adults born between the late 1970's through 1990 (though sometimes it's extended through 1996 in research). This generation grew up with the development of the modern day computer, the internet, and most importantly social media.


Gen Y'ers grew up with different ideals than our parents. Our first national trauma was 9/11, and we've only gotten to know three Presidents: Clinton, Bush, and Obama (we were too young to remember much about Reagan or Bush Sr.). For the most part, Gen Y'ers support cultural diversity and tolerance, open communication, and social justice and entrepreneurship. 


A good example of a Gen Y company is Google. Google's mission statement reads, "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". (google.com) Almost all of Google's products have scalable and reliable free or open source versions. This reflects the nature of Gen Y's business culture: collaboration and open communication.


Click here for more from Hamza Khan's personal blog


Today, there are (mainly) four generations of Americans alive:
The Greatest Generation
The Silent Generation
The Baby Boomers
Generation X
Generation Y

New Media. Youth. Grassroots.

Grand Opening Postponed Until Feb 20th!

Due to inclement weather, we must postpone our Grand Opening until: February 20th. Our Grand Opening will take place at 10:30 a.m that day, and our open house will be directly afterwards until 2:00 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to see you all at our new scheduled time!


-The Team

Simplicity Speaks Volumes.

New media is the art of simple.

Take for example, RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or the new media tool for making it easy to keep up to task with the latest news and information from websites that are constantly updated. A couple of clicks, and you have the latest from your favorite news or gossip site.

In the same way, we know our product. We know our services. That's why we chose the format you're seeing for our website. We realize to disseminate information about us effectively, we should use one of the products we help our clients develop and use effectively: a blog.

In the coming weeks and months (and if we're lucky, years), you'll see links to the personal blogs of our partners and staff, as well as interesting posts about new developments and breakthroughs we've found in our unique field. We hope you will continue to come back, and continue to interact with us in the future.

Just to explain...

We are Maryland's Premier Consulting Firm for Social Media and Grassroots solutions."

Now, what does that even mean?

Well, we're a new media consulting firm. This means that we use the latest new media and social networking applications and apply them to create unique solutions for businesses and political clientèle. Our partners and staff consult clients on the use of new media campaigning to enhance marketing campaigns, grassroots presence, and fundraising potential. Also, we deliver young interns and volunteers to any and all political or social events. We help politicians create a system of grassroots to enable a greater span of communication through out the region.

We utilize social media tools to connect our clients to the the people they want to hear their message. Then, for political clients, using our vast networks, help campaigns put together the grassroots support that helped get Obama elected in November 2008.

New Media, Youth Involvement, and Grassroots.

That really is our game plan, and it can help a local business grow a loyal and dependable customer base, an embassy develop a reliable press and public interest platform, and get a shiny-eyed first-time (or incumbent) candidate elected to office. That's the reality of what we do. And why you should think twice before going it alone in an economy as bad as this one.

If you're interested in just how we make such heady claims a reality, well it takes more than a blog post to that. But we can give you an idea of the new media tools we use:

Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Digg, amongst others.

Now, this blog post isn't designed to answer all your questions about new media, social media, or why you'd ever need a consultant to help you with any of these problems. But it does give you food for thought.

PRESS RELEASE

ATTENTION OFFICES OF EDITORS, POLITICAL BLOGGERS and PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

NEW MEDIA FIRM OPENING IN COLLEGE PARK

Minority and Young Entrepreneur Owned Firm Opens Doors

College Park, Maryland, Jan 26, 2010-- Khan & Associates LLP is a new media firm opening its doors in College Park. Khan & Associates LLP's purpose is to consult clients on the use of New Media, Social Media, and Media 2.0 solutions in politics and in business. It is also one of the first new media consulting firms in Maryland to date. More than half the firm's principals are from minority backgrounds, and all are either recent college graduates or still enrolled in College. The grand opening and open house event is held Feb. 6th, 2010 inside the Sterling Building from 10:30 a.m to 2 p.m. at 4920 Niagara Rd. College Park, MD 20740, Suite 214.

Senior Managing Partner, Hamza Khan, is currently on hiatus from University of Maryland Baltimore Campus (UMBC) to focus on the opening of this firm. Whereas, other managing partners such as Evan Rosenberg, UMBC '11, David Anguish UMBC '11 and Erich Reimer Johns Hopkins University '12 balance college and work. Recent graduate, Sherryn Daniel, College of Notre Dame of Maryland '09, has said to balance work at the firm and studying for grad school in her free time.

Khan has an extensive resume of community activism, as do partners Reimer and Anguish. Khan consulted the several Iranian dissident organizations this summer, and is the President of the Maryland Federation of College Democrats, an organization he has tripled in size since coming to office. He is also the National Chairman of the Middle Eastern Caucus of College Democrats. Before his political involvement, Khan was an avid interfaith worker in Baltimore, who experimented in using social media to enhance his field work and communications between Israeli Jews and non-Israeli Muslims. Reimer is an experienced youth activist for the Democratic Party and in his hometown of Albany, NY, and Anguish currently is President of the UMBC chapter of College Democrats.

"Our firm is filling a gap in Maryland politics through bringing in youth, Grassroots and Social Media," the Senior Managing Partner said. By bringing those three in together, you have a potent formula for success."

The grand opening and open house event is open to all members of the public who are interested in the opening of a new business venture in the College Park area.

New Media Consulting is a growing service field with in the Washington D.C. area. The marriage of community activism and new media consulting is a twist on the traditional political consulting field; and according to the various research studies, it promises to draw more young people into the political spectrum. The political niche within New and Social Media grew ever since President Barack Obama's success story in 2008. All members of the public are invited to join Khan & Associates LLP in starting our new business.

These events will occur concurrently on Saturday Feb. 6th, 2010.

Grand Opening: 10:30 a.m.

Open House: 12 p.m.- 2:00pm.

Light fare will be served.

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For Further Information, Contact Communications Partner Sherryn Daniel at: MDCampaignsHQ@gmail.com
or (240) 601-4506.

Please RSVP to this facsmile using the following number: (301) 441-8802

New Media and Social Media Consulting are part of a growing field, and Khan & Associates LLP is to date one of the first firms to open.