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The New WhiteHouse.gov
Patrick Ruffini —
... magazine piece this month — the Obama team shows every sign of plowing right on through antiquated readings of the Presidential Records Act that have been used to prevent such things as the creation of a White House YouTube account in the Bush Administration. And voila, here’s the official Obama White House YouTube account, with comments and ratings enabled. ...
The White House — the YouTube site.
Althouse —
Created today. There's a nice crisp video of the inauguration address, including the botched oath. And there's this haphazard montage from the Lincoln Memorial concert: ...
Most U.S. adults went online for Obama-McCain political info last election
Top of the Ticket —
... Online video was a major draw leading up to the election. The poll found that 45% of wired Americans watched Web video about politics or the election. The Obama administration is capitalizing on the ubiquity of Internet video with its White House YouTube channel. ...
White House Beat Is No Place for Generalists
Comments from Left Field —
... made is no guarantee of enhanced coverage. Instead of heaping more telegenic reporters into a single White House beat, break up the work among the corps of plugged-in journalists. When the president speaks out on AIG, let financial and labor reporters truth-squad him; when North Korea launches a missile, let defense and Asia specialists assess the White House reaction. Let the beleaguered journalism business prove its worth by providing something you can’t get by watching the White House’s YouTube channel. ...
Obama's White House creates profiles on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace
Top of the Ticket —
The White House is looking for a warm welcome to the social Web with today's launch of three key profiles on popular social networks Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The profiles have quickly accumulated a large following: On Facebook, it has more than 48,000 fans. On Twitter, more than 12,000 followers. And on MySpace, more than 7,000 "friends" -- the majority of whom apparently were not informed that the rest of the U.S. has moved on to one of the former two websites. Our friends at the Swamp blog had some particularly snarky response to ...
What Comes Next for New Media and Public Diplomacy?
The Washington Note —
Among other firsts, President Obama is undoubtedly our first "New Media" president. The Obama team came into power through its revolutionary internet fundraising success and clearly intends to find new ways to use the internet to advance its agenda.
The most obvious indications of this are the Obama administration's revamped White House website, its well-organized and comprehensive YouTube channel, and Obama's now famous Al-Arabiya interview.
But as Steve Clemons has pointed out ...
Your Senators On Youtube: A Great Way To Make Your Voice Heard
Right Soup —
... of you use the “email this post” option at the top of a story to spread the word, and use the Facebook and other social networking buttons to easily share important news (you need to click on the individual story title to use these options.) This post is a great resource to send to everyone. We’ll be putting links in the right-hand margin of the site to it and to a similar one for House Reps who have Youtube channels. Give ‘em hell.
The White House
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