Apparently they do. Just last week the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) released the results of a recent study they completed on the impact of social media efforts in advocacy campaigns. (As an aside, the member/public engagement nerd in me LOVES CMF studies on how congressional staff view constituent communications). So here’s what valuable in the … [Read more…]
Those of you who have been nice enough to follow this blog (thanks Dad!) are probably wondering where the previously-promised humorous and embarrassing anecdotes are about my kids. While I haven’t seen my kids enough in the last two weeks to compile the aforementioned stories, I DID have an epiphany as I was flying home … [Read more…]
So Twitter™ has published a rather lengthy handbook for elected officials on how to use Twitter™, covering such topics as “What is a Tweet?” Sam Sanders with NPR thinks this it’s hysterical that there’s a 136 page manual on how to create a 140-character message. I, too, was initially struck by the irony. Then I … [Read more…]