The White House Might Understand Social Media

I was listening to NPR while driving home from work and the reporter was talking about the government and the new open information website that the Obama administration has launched called the Open Government Initiative. The basics of the site is an open protal of government information and a communication platform for citizens to give opinions on current policies.

Personally… I did not vote for Obama but I am giving him more and more credit throughout the first 100 days he has been in office. It is a brilliant move to elect a Chief Information Officer for the country. Now there is a huge difference between a move and an actual event happening. I would like to see the open portal start showing information that was not readily available to the public on a scale and has been unsurpassed in recent years.

The critics of the portal say that there is not enough information being stored on the site and information is key to the portal actually… working.

Needless to see.. I applaud the administration for taking the step forward into the world of content generation, information, and social communication in the online environment.

After all… Obama did win the Generation Y vote…and social media was a huge part of that process

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