Last night, the US election came to Berlin in a big way. More than 2000 people from the worlds of politics, media and business convened in Deutsche Telekom’s historic Telegraph Building to follow the action and debate the election live - in person, on air, and online .ZDF anchored its election reporting from the event - one of the largest held anywhere outside the US. For our part, we teamed up with ZDF and the American Academy in Berlin, who used Google+ technology to host two live “Transatlantic Election Hangouts”. Norbert Lammert , Die Zeit editor Josef Joffe , former German Ambassador to the US Wolfgang Ischinger and President of the Brookings Institution, Strobe Talbott . The discussions were broadcast live to the web as "Hangouts on Air" for politically interested European citizens and people around the world on Google+ and YouTube. ZDF also integrated Hangouts on Air with bloggers in the US into their live programming. Google elections page, including results displayed state by state on a Google Map in real time, live reporting on YouTube by US broadcasters and newspapers, and the volume of search queries by state for each candidate. Prominent guests including US-ambassador Philip D. Murphy and the Head of the SPD fraction in the German Bundestag Frank-Walter Steinmeier dropped by to take a look. Every two hours our guests were able to chat with Google’s election team in Washington DC via Hangout to get the freshest insights into how the race was playing out online. Posted by Ralf Bremer, Senior Manager Communications and Public Affairs, Google Germany
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