Posted in Bloggers, Web 2.0, White House on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And State. And Commerce. And Interior…
At least that is what Sen. Clinton is advocating, should she become president.
Somehow, with the federal bureaucracy the way it is, I don’t think her official administration “bloggers” will be sharing information in the way she envisoned…
Posted in Links on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Former Pentagon colleague (then LTC, now COL Derik Crotts) sent a somewhat stilted pitch to Danger Room, but I applaud the effort. Welcome to the blogosphere, SHAPE. For your next outreach effort, maybe try not sending something on official military letterhead.
I became famous from participating in the “best Web 2.0 seminar yet.” Ignore the bad [...]
Posted in Milblogs, PAOs, PR, Public Relations on January 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My boss at Edelman (you know, the one who co-founded that little conservative political blog…) used to joke that I write in a niche of one. The world of military public affairs writers is so small that no one else would write about it, he reasoned.
Then I found this guy. And this one.
And today, we [...]
Posted in Army, Bloggers, Milblogs on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok… so I’m a week late on this one (he announced it last Tuesday on his blog), but for some reason I just got the post in my feeds this morning. Damn you, Bloglines!
Here’s the (not-so) scoop:
“Teflon Don,” the milblogger who regaled us with his impressive prose and chronicles of his deployment to Iraq on [...]
Posted in D-Ring on January 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For those of you in the Washington, DC, area who are interested in social media, I’m speaking on a panel (with some pretty impressive industry colleagues) for the National Capital Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at the Navy Memorial.
There will be breakfast and networking, followed by [...]
Posted in NAVCENT, Navy, PAOs, Pitching blogs on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Don’t spam bloggers. Especially with 35MB worth of e-mail attachments that end up clogging up their in boxes.
I might have been interested in what you were sending me had it been presented in a more audience-friendly format. Instead, your e-mails got the boot.
Better luck next time,
Steve
Posted in Blogs, News on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From AP (via Breit Bart):
DENVER (AP) – Maj. Andrew Olmsted’s “Final Post” was published online—after the Rocky Mountain News blogger was killed in Iraq. Olmsted died Thursday with another soldier, Capt. Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque, when rebels attacked with small arms near Sadiyah, the military said.
Olmsted, who began writing for the News on [...]
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