TV report from 1981. Caught this on Daily Kos. Hilarious.
27 January 2009
Educating the Masses
Egad, I missed working on social media. It's been too long.
Today was great fun and (I hope) a valuable learning experience for my colleagues. In addition to a nuts & bolts presentation on social media to some of my "issues management" and "grassroots" colleagues, I helped arrange and moderated a blogger panel to help my colleagues understand some of the do's and don'ts of social media in practice.
I like to take a community-based approach to social media - it's not about the tools you use, it's about the relationships you build with opinion leaders in online communities. Many online communities, however, are reasonably isolated from one another. So what I really loved about this panel was the participants were not only smart and accomplished, they also arguably had influence in more than one online community. They're the type of people you can't define with a single term. I've described before how these are the people who can help bridge cultural gaps and build broad, diverse coalitions of support around particular issues or causes.
Joanne Bamberger is a mom who's seriously into the meat and potatoes of policy and politics - she's comfortable discussing the horse race of campaigns, but is more interested in the nitty-gritty and discusses the real issues at PunditMom. Dr. Val Jones is doing an incredible job bridging the gap between doctors and parents - she moves about both communities effectively, and they come together on her blog, Better Health. Lynn Anne Miller builds relationships with parents and environmentalists and can even discuss marketing at her blog, Organic Mania. Jerome Armstrong is a legend in the liberal blogosphere and has written MyDD since 2001, and he's also a co-founder of SB Nation, a network of sports blogs.
I thoroughly enjoyed bringing together people from different walks of life to discuss the one thing they had in common - social media. It was clear to me how important community was to each of them and how much we all still have to learn.
I hope we can do it again sometime soon. My sincere thanks to this impressive group.
I'm still working on that traditional communications project, and I think the experience is quite valuable, but I'm also looking forward to resuming my full-time social media gig and to blogging a bit more regularly.
Today was great fun and (I hope) a valuable learning experience for my colleagues. In addition to a nuts & bolts presentation on social media to some of my "issues management" and "grassroots" colleagues, I helped arrange and moderated a blogger panel to help my colleagues understand some of the do's and don'ts of social media in practice.
I like to take a community-based approach to social media - it's not about the tools you use, it's about the relationships you build with opinion leaders in online communities. Many online communities, however, are reasonably isolated from one another. So what I really loved about this panel was the participants were not only smart and accomplished, they also arguably had influence in more than one online community. They're the type of people you can't define with a single term. I've described before how these are the people who can help bridge cultural gaps and build broad, diverse coalitions of support around particular issues or causes.
Joanne Bamberger is a mom who's seriously into the meat and potatoes of policy and politics - she's comfortable discussing the horse race of campaigns, but is more interested in the nitty-gritty and discusses the real issues at PunditMom. Dr. Val Jones is doing an incredible job bridging the gap between doctors and parents - she moves about both communities effectively, and they come together on her blog, Better Health. Lynn Anne Miller builds relationships with parents and environmentalists and can even discuss marketing at her blog, Organic Mania. Jerome Armstrong is a legend in the liberal blogosphere and has written MyDD since 2001, and he's also a co-founder of SB Nation, a network of sports blogs.
I thoroughly enjoyed bringing together people from different walks of life to discuss the one thing they had in common - social media. It was clear to me how important community was to each of them and how much we all still have to learn.
I hope we can do it again sometime soon. My sincere thanks to this impressive group.
I'm still working on that traditional communications project, and I think the experience is quite valuable, but I'm also looking forward to resuming my full-time social media gig and to blogging a bit more regularly.
22 January 2009
The Purple Tunnel of Doom
Seems it's not always smooth when you try to get together with two million of your closest friends. It's interesting then, that the disgruntled masses have started a Facebook group. Also interesting is the support group.
Welcome to political protest in 2009. Five gets you ten the White House will address this, in some way, through the social media channels that people are using.
Welcome to political protest in 2009. Five gets you ten the White House will address this, in some way, through the social media channels that people are using.
21 January 2009
Inaugural Address Clouds, Part III
Once more, with feeling: President Obama's Inaugural Address, compared with President Kennedy's Inaugural Address and President Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address. Thanks again to Wordle.
Obama:
Kennedy:
Roosevelt:
Sense a theme?
Obama:
Kennedy:
Roosevelt:
Sense a theme?
20 January 2009
Comparing Inaugural Address Clouds: Obama v. GW Bush 2
President Obama's Inaugural Address as a text cloud
Now, compare this cloud to the speech he gave on election night:
To me the clouds suggest both speeches displayed an appreciation for the significance of that moment in history, but the Inaugural Address was much more forceful in its delivery and fierce in its tone, the invocation of scripture to "set aside childish things," the strong suggestion that difficult work lies ahead.
Not surprisingly, the election night speech was about victory while the Inaugural Address was about work. President Obama, in the strongest terms to date, asserted a mandate today.
13 January 2009
09 January 2009
Where's David?
I returned from holiday break and was asked to serve in a temporary spokesperson role for a local client, so the blog will probably be slow for a while. I liked this review of Holy Ground - 30 Passionate Arguments for Faith-Based Environmental Protection. Go read it.
I hope to be back blogging soon...
I hope to be back blogging soon...
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