There’s Something About Memes (part 4 of ?)

Memes are defined as a unit of pop culture. The term was first coined by a British scientist, RichardDawkins,  to describe the evolution and spread of cultural ideas. Somewhere along the line, the term degenerated to describe LOLcats and Rickrolling. The success and longevity of a meme depends upon how culturally relevant it is. Case [...]

Tweet Congress

So Tweet Congress is beyond cool. Pretty simple concept: find and follow your Congress representatives who are on Twitter, establish communication, promote transparency… All good stuff! And if your representative isn’t on Twitter, well, you can even sign a petition inviting him/her to join the information superhighway. Take Sen. Harry Reid, for example, out there [...]

White House – Open For Questions!

This is quite possibly the coolest thing ever. Keyword: transparency. I would explain in detail, but this video (in less than 1.5 minutes!) does a bang-up job doing that on its own. (Because, shouldn’t it?) Much like our own BM executive Town Hall meetings, the President is asking Americans to submit questions and vote on [...]

The ARRA (says I) – or Recovery.gov

No news that President Obama today signed the much-debated economic stimulus package agreement, or what’s officially now known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (I’ll call it ARRA henceforth). Whether this makes you, your clients, your family, etc. happy or angry, what we can probably all agree on is that the decision by the Prez to [...]

And now, the lazy-woman’s blog post

  jkositz Fascinating! RT @adamostrow RT @mashable: How Should President Obama Use Twitter? (please RT!) -http://tinyurl.com/atyjxt less than 10 seconds ago from web     OK, I’ll elaborate… :) Seriously – read that article in my tweet above! It’s amazing. Reminds of of the article that Stephen Berger shared a while back “from the desk of the Russian President,” [...]

Our first Prez to use… email?

Are you serious? According to this AP story, President Obama is the “the first sitting president to use e-mail.” Is anyone else here scratching their head? I mean, the article goes on to say that Bush “was an active e-mailer before becoming president” (?? Then he stopped??) and then points out that “Previous presidents chose [...]

iPhone-philes, take note!

Or iPhone-o-holics, as the case may be. Either way – in continuing with the theme of the week, I just got a head’s up from my friend about some great iPhone/iPod Touch wares: free Obama wallpaper! Go to this Web site, download the zip file, sync to iTunes and enjoy!    (This photo not included) :-)

The White House launches its new blog!

Today was certainly exciting. And amid all the excitement – and following up on the heels of Obama’s near-flawless digital campaign, including his YouTube weekly addresses which I’ve vowed to watch regularly now! (NY resolution #43925732890!) – the re-vamped Whitehouse.gov site (did anyone visit the White House Web site when Bush was in office? I [...]