From what I could gather…bigger better (theme + widget interaction), faster scripting. The latest version killed like 800 bugs and added 180 features. Word (no pun intended).
The facilitation for audience questions was disorganized & inconsistent.
The audience kept wasting questions asking about specific political people that the panelist could not comment on wasting the limited question time. It should have been made clear from the beginning that panelists would not answer questions about specific political individuals, it would have made the event more productive on both sides.
Today the White House was tweeting about the CDC, and I clicked through some of their links to discover that the CDC has busted out with an entire array of web Widgets to educate the public on the swine flu pandemonium that is happening. They are distributing public health information to the people who in turn are seeding their blogs / websites and turning them into mini-digital health billboards all over the internet. Now lets test a few out and see how well they work in wordpress!
Tried to post 4 widgets but the first two of them did not work the first time. I had to keep messing with the code and updating the blog post about four times to get all four of them to work. The other two worked straight away. Could have been a little more friendly, but sometimes with widgets you just have to tweak them a bit.
Thank you CDC + your social media team for having a social media strategy and using it to accomplish a clear mission: educating the public on the swine flu! We want to see more of these widgets as major outbreaks occur, health problems crop up or just to unvail the truth and dispell media fueled myths.
The first tweets were published to http://www.twitter.com/whitehouse at roughly 12:20PM EST Friday May 1st 2009 and has gained over 10,000 followers in only 5 hours, after posting only 5 tweets!
@2:20PM Twitter followers spiked to 585 @2:25PM Twitter followers spiked to 731 @2:56PM Twitter followers spiked to 2,124 @3:15PM Twitter followers spiked to 2,642 @3:33PM Twitter followers spiked to 3,556 @3:48PM Twitter followers spiked to 5,055 @4:00PM Twitter followers spiked to 5,940 @4:27PM Twitter followers spiked to 7,787 @5:01PM Twitter followers spiked to 9,842 @5:05PM Twitter followers spiked to 10,084
At 2:03PM today the White House released a blog post called “Whitehouse 2.0″
Go read the White House 2.0 blog post to see the Obama & the White House team continuing to “walk the walk” by using social media tools to promote “Health 2.0″ and the CDC’s eHealth efforts to use social web technologies to better serve the American people. More specifically they are at pushing these two URLS in the blog post: