Over the past few years, Congress has begun to embrace the power of social media to communicate with the public. Twitter, the microblogging service, has been one of the main platform used by members of Congress.
FHDC’s Mark Senak, proprietor of Eye on FDA, recently analyzed the growth of Twitter on Capitol Hill in a new [...]
Twitter on the Hill
Why Dismissing Twitter is Short-Sighted
New developments in media and technology are often ignored and dismissed as passing fads, only to change the paradigm of how people work, live, and communicate. Time has shown that media and technology are inherently tied to progress. Time has also shown that those who ignore the evolution of communication mediums are destined to play catch [...]
Twitter Catches Fire In Congress
Forget YouTube, that’s so 2008.
The new communications rage for Members of Congress is Twitter. The popular micro-blogging (140 characters or less) service has become a must-do communications tool for Representatives and Senators alike. President Obama popularized the service during the 2008 campaign, but has not posted any new messages (called Tweets) since taking office. The lesson he [...]
Bipartisanship: Stay the Course, Mr. President
Politics has always made for strange bedfellows.
Many commentators (here, here, and here) have opined that the bipartisanship President Obama espoused when he took office and pursued through his first month has been a failure, for many reasons. Bipartisanship has never worked, they’ve said, citing myriad examples of past presidential swings and misses at bipartisanship (FDR, [...]
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