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 [...]

Bank of Obama – Bailouts for all!

http://www.bankofobama.org/ A clever, novelty gift. You can either send a virtual check via email (for free) or they will send an actual (and, of course, fake) check to the recipient with this message: Hey– I thought you could use a bailout from the Bank of Obama. Everyone else is getting one, so why not you [...]

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) :-)

SF renames Bush St – aptly

So this rippled through the Interwebs today but I had actually stumbled upon it rather organically (or, ignorantly, as the case happened to be) and got a huge kick out of it – perhaps greater than if I had seen it online first then sought it out after – the beauty of a perfectly-executed stunt! [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Marvin, I’m blogging!

OK so since I sent about 50 emails to the BM New Media Team alias today, decided to post this last one in our blog. Not sure why but it seems easier sometimes to just punch out an email. When really, it’s kind of the same thing. Think I’m getting sucked into that mindset that [...]

Wordle & Obama

Thought this was really cool. Found via Twitter from a dude who was at the same concert as I was last night. This was created via Wordle – kind of neat if we were to paste in a client’s press release or other collateral, may help with SEO? “Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word [...]