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Gaza Bromide: “Tweet, Tweet” Is Better Than “War, War”
4 comments on Gaza Bromide: “Tweet, Tweet” Is Better Than “War, War”(Welcome, readers of TheDonovan.com, a.k.a. Castle Argghhh. If you’re a fan of “Jonah’s military guys,” you might be interested in my October post about that site, “In Praise of Milbloggers, and of the Iraqi Air…
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Israel Turns to Social Media in Fight against Hamas
Nick O’Neill has a good post at Social Media Today describing Israel’s use of social media in the current conflict in Gaza. Among other things, the Israeli Consulate in New York is engaging with supporters…
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally Enters the Twitterstream
To be precise, Mulally was Tweeting by proxy yesterday, via Scott Monty. It only lasted a few minutes, but it’s still fairly cool. No great revelations on weighty policy matters, but I learned that Mulally…
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Autoworkers: “I’m Sticking to the Union… Till the Day I Die”
(Welcome, Corner readers, and thanks to Cornerite Iain Murray for his continuing support. Thanks also to Mickey Kaus for linking, with a permalink no less — sorry about the crack below about the Kausfiles template!)…
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More Eavesdropping on Ford’s Social Media Guy
(Saturday morning update at the bottom.) Whatever Ford is paying Scott Monty, they oughta pay him more. He’s been Tweeting all day. Earlier today I described how Scott, the head of social media for Ford…
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Lobbying in Plain Sight: The Auto Bailout on Twitter
Welcome, Twitterers, Diggers, Cornerites, readers from Social Media Today, Dalton’s Briefs, Northwest Indiana Politics, Kicking Over My Traces and others. If you enjoy this post, I hope you’ll take a look around the site. In…
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The Perils of Participatory Democracy
Over at change.gov, the President-elect’s transition website, the incoming administration is continuing its efforts to tap the power of social media. Yesterday this took the form of an “Open for Questions” tool that encouraged readers…
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Using Social Media for a Small Business
In the category of, “Best Use of a Blog for Marketing a Small Business,” the winner is… [sound of envelope being ripped open]… the Lincoln Sign Company. The blog is a fantastic example of using…
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Whoo Hoo! A Cross-Posting Opportunity!
Here’s my latest contribution to the Social Media Today community.