President Obama to Hold First Twitter Town Hall
President Obama announced he would be utilizing social media in a new way and he’s starting by holding a live town hall meeting using Twitter. The town hall will take place live on July 6 at 2p.m. ET. During the town hall President Obama will answer questions about the economy and jobs during a live [...]
Read MorePresident Obama Takes New Approach to Social Media
Recently updated on the president’s website was a statement briefly explaining President Obama’s new approach to social media tools, Twitter and Facebook. Starting only a couple days ago President Obama started tweeting and updating his Facebook page personally. Tweets and updates directly from him will end in “-BO,” to differentiate which updates are from him [...]
Read MoreFile Sharing Breach Exposes Congressional Investigations
Last week a fresh political scandal hit the streets of Washington, DC, when a document listing dozens of investigations of Congressional leaders was leaked to the Washington Post. Such a leak would normally be a huge breach of confidence and trust toward those involved in the investigations. However, it appears one of the investigators themselves [...]
Read MorePolitical Blogging After Obama
Black Web 2.0 asked five practicing experts what they thought black political blogs will look like now that Barack has moved on from promising candidate and president elect to an official appointment to the highest office in the land. The responses were surprisingly non-uniform, but did have one theme in common… Black bloggers and online [...]
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