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7 months ago

in e-governance: How the White House may evolve on eaves.ca
Thanks for the post, David. Actually, my point was that campaigning online is far different from governing there. In a campaign, the goal is to build grassroots community and work toward one day to get people to the polls and vote. Governing is a much longer term approach with legislation sometimes taking years to get from idea to sponsor to committee to votes before finally arriving on the President's desk.

Either way, messaging and communication is a crucial component in the shaping the public discourse and the tone of the debate. No one did that better than Sen. Obama in this campaign.

Yes, the WH site was a communications tool for us, but we also used it reach out and connect with Americans by providing access to the President's events and Administration officials through our "Ask the White House" online chats.

At the time, social media was still in it's infancy and E-Gov and privacy policies prevented us from fully engaging with the public on external sites (outside .gov and .mil) such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, blogs, etc. Some of that has changed, but challenges still remain and it will be fascinating to see how the Obama Administration leverages the .gov medium.

For example, much has been written about Obama's YouTube radio address yesterday on Change.gov. However, note that comments, ratings and response video options have been turned off. In addition, the Executive Office of the President is currently prohibited from publishing content in YouTube for a few reasons such as federal archive requirements, online ad endorsement violations and perceived favortism to Google/YouTube over other video sharing platforms.

I am confident that many of these rules will be reviewed, revised or removed - as they should be. You can be sure that I will be following with great interest. Anxious to get your thoughts via my blog http://CapitalGig.com or on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/almacy (@almacy).

Best,
David

9 months ago

in Tidbit of the Day: Thoughts about BlogWorld 2008, and some people to meet on Daniel B. Honigman's site
Thanks, Dan. Great to meet you, too. By the way, I am @almacy on Twitter. Not @dalmacy.
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