Obama: The Tech-Savvy Prez?
President Tech-Savvy? Remember the 2008-2009 Barack Obama? The one who praised Facebook, online fundraising and online organizing for his victory and forced the National Security Agency to build a super-deluxe secret security system for the official POTUS BlackBerry? Either the 2010 Obama has done a 360 on his tech-love, or the most transparent administration evah was lying about its integration of technology and social media. Per The Guardian: Yesterday... Read More
Blogs Have a Carbon Footprint?
Like most bloggers, I get a log of blog pitches. As a communications professional, I regularly reach out to bloggers and have led training sessions on blogger relations. When I get a good pitch, I generally email the person to thank them. Most of the time, they are simply horrible. Today, I got a pitch that shows what happens when a Google search for certain keywords is done without looking at the context of those keywords. Given my recent comments... Read More
Obligatory End of Year/Decade Post
Truthfully, I didn’t realize that the decade was ending until Time Magazine informed me that this was the worst decade ever. I was under the impression that 2010 was the end of the decade not 2009. Wasn’t there a Seinfeld episode along these lines? While Worst Decade Ever sounds like a VH1 special with Michael Ian Black, I don’t think it was that terrible. America faced a number of challenges, and only time will tell if we made the... Read More
The Transparency of Obama’s Web Use
During the 2008 campaign, Obama pledged to have the most transparent administration ever. This was one of the first promises he broke by not posting bills to the web for a full five days before he signed them. It appears, he is also not as transparent with his digital media prowess as the administration claimed: Well, first of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I noticed that young people — they’re very busy with all these... Read More
