Blog Potomac – Live Photoblog #4
By · CommentsPersonal Branding Discussion @ Blog Potomac
Aaron Brazell (Blogger @TechnoSailor) throwing in his two cents about the idea of “Personal Brands.”
Radian 6’s Community Manager Amber Naslund @AmberCadabra listening attentively.
Scott Monty Joined In @ Blog Potomac
The Social Media Swami @ Blog Potomac
Social Media Karaoke Panel @ Blog Potomac
Karaoke Panel Q&A @ Blog Potomac
And that’s a wrap! I hope this live photoblogging provided a window into the event in real time.
Blog Potomac – Live Photoblog #3
By · Comments@Scott Monty of Ford Speaking @ Blog Potomac
Scott Monty Doing Q&A @ Blog Potomac
@Liz Strauss Speaking @ Blog Potomac
DC Central Food Kitchen @ Blog Potomac
Explaining to the audience the story of the food kithen, thanks for lunch it was really good!
Blog Potomac – Live Photoblog #2
By · Comments@Geoff Livingston Giving Opening Remarks @ Blog Potomac
@Shel Holtz Opening Up @ Blog Potomac
@DigitalSista (Shireen Mitchell) @ Blog Potomac
Shireen Mitchell Talking Blog Politics @ Blog Potomac
Audience @ Blog Potomac Live Blogging & Tweeting Away
More Live photoblogs coming soon 
stay tuned!
Blog Potomac – Live Photoblog #1
By · CommentsHere is a bird’s eye view of Blog Potomac from the 2nd floor:
Center Stage @ Blog Potomac
Pan Left @ Blog Potomac
Pan Center @ Blog Potomac
Pan Right @ Blog Potomac
Wordpress 2.8 “Baker” Is Out, Check It
By · CommentsWordpress 2.8 “Baker” after Chet Baker has been Official Released…now I have a ton of work to do!
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).
“Web 2.0 and the Federal Government” Panel at CAP
By · CommentsYesterday I made it out to see “The meme master” Tim O’Reilly speak on a Government 2.0 focused panel discussion at the Center For American Progress.
The Zero’s Thoughts & Insights On The Event
Major Problems
1. Scale
2. Delegation & Clearance
3. More Voting & Polling DIY
4. Security
“Yes there is a risk in using Facebook apps, but what is the risk of not allowing our people to use web 2.0?”
Senior Staff Working Hard and readall the 10K Comments It is not possible to read them all
Concepts
Diplomacy 2.0 – The Art of 21st Century State Craft
Ideas
“Machine learning on a sensor databases.” – Tim O’Reilly
Top Quotes From the Government 2.0 Panel Event
“There authenticity of a conversation is central to anything in social media.” – Tim O’Reilly
“When you push new media you are more then likely excluding an important part of society” – Alec Ross
“Building systems that get better the more people use it is the heart of web 2.0″ – Tim O’Reilly
“Most of my new media friends spend more time dealing with lawyers then social media.” – Alec Ross
“The first opportunity in new media is so critical, people are paying attention and intereseted in what you want to stay.” – Tim O’Reilly
“(Social Media) A new lateral means that inherently breaks silos.” – Tim O’Reilly
“Social media is a messy space an the government does not play or work in messy spaces.” – Alec Ross
“We are in for a messy exciting time.” – Tim O’Reilly
“If individuals in government cannot act in government as individuals then government will never be government.” – Tim O’Reilly
“Use 2.0 to control 2.0″
Panel Speakers
- Peter Swire – CAP Senior Fellow and Ohio State Law Professor.
- Alec Ross – Senior Advisor for innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
- Tim O’Reilly – Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc.
- Faiz Shakir – Research Director for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Cap Released Three Government 2.0 Reports
- Six New Media Challenges – Legal and Policy Considerations for Federal Use of Web 2.0 Technology
- It’s Not the Campaign Any More – How the White House Is Using Web 2.0 Technology So Far
- How to Buy Free Software – Procuring Web 2.0 Technology for the Federal Government
Constructive Feedback on The Event
- Not enough time given for audience questions.
- 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.
Related Links
http://www.americanprogress.org/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanprogress/
This video was just released from The Center for American Progress the talking all about “White House 2.0″
CDC Widgets: Promoting Public Health via Social Media
By · CommentsToday 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!
HHS 2009 Flu Info Widget
H1N1 (Swine Flu)
Flu I.Q.
FluView National Flu Activity Map
Results of CDC Widget Test
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.
White House Twitter Gains 10,000 Followers in 5 Hours
By · CommentsThe 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
Velocity Updates:
@6:34PM Twitter followers spiked to 14,253
@8:01PM Twitter followers spiked to 16,929
Whitehouse 2.0 Blog Post Focused on Healthcare 2.0
By · CommentsAt 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:
Center For Disease Control – Social Media: http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/
Center For Disease Control – Swine Flu: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
“White House 2.0″ Blog Post: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/05/01/WhiteHouse/
Whitehouse 2.0 Related Social Media Accounts
- Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse
- Flickr – http://flickr.com/whitehouse
- Twitter – http://twitter.com/whitehouse
- MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/whitehouse
- Vimeo – http://vimeo.com/whitehouse
- YouTube – http://youtube.com/whitehouse
- iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=299652047
Whitehouse RSS Feed
http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog/whitehouse/
