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 [...]
All Atwitter: So In, They’re Out
Leave to New York Times writer Virginia Heffernan to remind us of the delicious Emily Dickinson poem about the bliss of nonconformity – and tie it all back to the twittering classes -
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – [...]
@ChuckGrassley: Do We Have Your Support?
As has been discussed on “The Cloakroom,” (click here and here) the federal government and members of Congress, notably Senators Claire McCaskill, John McCain and Charles Grassley, have flocked to Twitter. Seems lobbyists are now using this medium to lobby for their support.
The National Journal’s Eliza Krigman has an interesting story on this new development:
The Sunlight Foundation [...]
Can Social Media Help Reform Healthcare?
Social media is a powerful force. No one can deny that its utilization has dramatically changed the way we function and interact as a society.
I wonder: can this transformational, innovative force help reform our outdated and inefficient healthcare system?
Carleen Hawn, a business writer based in San Francisco sought to examine this very question.
Coming to Terms With YouTube
In a memorandum issued January 21, 2009, President Obama called on government agencies to use technology to inform citizens about their activities. “The presumption of disclosure also means that agencies should take affirmative steps to make information public,” the memorandum stated. “They should not wait for specific requests from the public. All agencies should [...]
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 [...]
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