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The White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter (And Makes Friends with the Rest of Government)
techPresident — Today the White House took a big step towards recreating the ubiquitous Internet presence that the Obama campaign created with the simultaneous launch of profiles on three major social networks: Facebook (Facebook.com/WhiteHouse), MySpace (MySpace.com/WhiteHouse), and Twitter (Twitter.com/WhiteHouse). To get the sites launched, the White House new media team has had to learn to work within a number of limitations that didn't burden the campaign -- from White House computer systems that block certain social networking sites to legal ...

White House Embraces Social Media, Hears from The People
Political Punch — ... White House Embraces Social Media, Hears from The People May 01, 2009 6:24 PM The White House today officially announced it had launched pages on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. The White House Facebook page appears to have been officially launched on April 10, with some postings last night. Postings today included the President's Remarks on Justice Souter and the latest information about H1N1 flu. The White House's first Facebook friend (out of 54,056 signed up so far) to comment about the President's remarks on Justice Souter -- "Jordan Dunn" -- said "hmm...now thats what ...

Obama's White House creates profiles on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace
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The Early Word: Looming Health Care Battles
The Caucus — ... , its Facebook page and through Twitter (#WHHCQ). (We’re checking to see whether there’s a cutoff deadline for submissions to be asked at the town-hall.) While Mr. Obama sells his plan to the public in several of these events, his administration also has developed a ...

Obama's Ghana Strategy: Use New Media Tools, But Keep the Old
techPresident — ... ). The White House will also create a Facebook “event” around the speech wherein participants from around the world can engage with one another. A Twitter hashtag (i.e. ...

White House using social media to debunk 'myths' about healthcare reform
Top of the Ticket — ... healthcare reform program, the White House is picking up a different megaphone -- the Internet. And it's doing a bang-up job of getting that message out. The administration has launched a Web page called Health Insurance Reform: Reality Check that disputes popular criticisms of the new policies. The media-rich, well-designed site contains video testimony from advisers and experts. The White House blasted links to the package out to more than 300,000 fans on Facebook and more than 900,000 on Twitter today. It also sent an e-mail ...

Clearing the Cache: Makin' Health Reform with My Friends...
techPresident — ... Come to think of it, the Facebook "Like" option ("1,690 people like this," for example) is giving the White House a focus group, albeit an unscientific one, on what it's up to. Working on health insurance consumer protections is a hit. Hosting Brad Paisley at the White House? ...

White House Seeks to Capture and Archive Citizens’ Comments on its Facebook, YouTube, MySpace Sites
CNSNews.com Headlines — (CNSNews.com) Anyone who posts comments on the White House s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out. The Executive Office of the President is looking for a private contractor to capture and archive comments and information posted on social networking and new media sites where the White House has established a presence. While the Presidential Records Act (PRA) generally requires that the administration preserve information generated by the president and ...

White House Defends Archiving Comments from Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter Sites
CNSNews.com Headlines — (CNSNews.com) The Obama administration said that archiving citizen postings on White House social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, is just a matter of following the law and dismissed any assertions that there might be something sinister about collecting such information. Recently, we have seen a few stories questioning how the Presidential Records Act (PRA) intersects with Americans use of modern social media, like Facebook and Twitter, to communicate with the White House, wrote Macon Phillips, director of new media, on the White House s blog on Saturday. CNSNews.com first reported ...