Twitter Elites Visit White House
The Twitter elite made a special visit to the White House on Friday, when site founder and CEO Evan Williams (@ev) joined a summit for 20 young business to owners share new ideas to stimulate the economy. Considering Twitter hasn’t made money yet, Williams himself seemed a little in disbelief about the whole thing, tweeting [...]
Read MoreWiki White House
President Barack Obama ran for office with the most wired presidential campaign in history, so it makes sense that his administration would carry all that technological savvy with it into Washington. But now that they’ve arrived, a major question facing the administration is whether the tools that worked so well during the campaign can also [...]
Read MoreWhiteHouse.gov Launched as Obama is Inaugurated
CHANGE is in full effect over at WhiteHouse.gov. The new site launched today as Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America at 12:01pm EST. The site launched with an official blog dubbed The Blog that introduced Director of New Media for the White House and blogger Macon Phillips. [...]
Read MoreObama rolls out Change.gov
As if we weren’t already impressed enough with Obama’s use of the web and social media today he rolled out Change.gov, the Obama Administration’s offical website. H/T Shelton Reese who commented in our other post about Obama making history. There was never any doubt that Obama would change the way government operates on the web [...]
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