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You CAN teach old dogs new tricks

Senators Schumer and Boxer now have twitter accounts at @ChuckSchumer and @senatorboxer respectively. Meanwhile, Senator Feinstein now has a facebook account.

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“Inside the 112th Congress’s Great Twitter Handover” from TechCrunch

I was going to write about the excellent transition of twitter user-names by the GOP leadership, but Nancy Scola on TechCrunch did a much better job. An excerpt: If you’re John Boehner, who was until today @GOPLeader as well as … Continue reading

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Why is this even news? Best Use is not a Popularity Contest

Recently, Facebook DC asked their fans to “weigh in on the best use of Facebook in 2010 by members of Congress, political campaigns, and government agencies.” They have now released their results, which aren’t presented in scientific form, rather in … Continue reading

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Tools for Transparency: GovSM

This is a cross-post of a guest blog entry I did for the Sunlight Foundation last week. By now, we’ve all heard about the social media wave and most of us have heard about Gov2.0 and governmental use (or their … Continue reading

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