I wrote a little piece on making your blog look good on the iPhone for FlackRabbit, my friend Margie Newman’s blog. FlackRabbit is filled with useful thoughts on social media and PR. She’s a communications professional who really gets the web – there’s not many of them out there.
Technically, I’m not in PR. But I’ve [...]
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February 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · raves
Ocean.gov – A Modest Proposal
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · rants
Have you ever wondered why there’s no ocean.gov? This is a valuable and easy to remember URL that the government doesn’t currently use. And it should, for we all depend on the ocean for the very air we breathe.
When I was at NOAA, it was explained to me that there’s no web site at ocean.gov because [...]
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Wordpress on the iPhone
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Should Government Employees Blog?
July 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
This is 2008. Everyone these days has a blog. Yet, within some sectors of government, there is resistance to using this not-so-new communications tool. Why? What are the “perceived risks”?
We don’t trust our employees. This comes across in two ways.
First, some federal agencies block all social networking sites (YouTube, MySpace) and this includes any [...]
Tags:blog·government·Web 2.0·web2