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Adfero Group’s Chris Battle recently wrote an article titled, “Why Washington doesn’t get new media ,” which was published in The Hill. Check out an excerpt from the piece below, or read the full article here.
When I first started working in Washington, in the ’90s, websites were still a novelty — a bad novelty. The average congressional website was little more than an electronic pamphlet featuring the face of a member of Congress smiling out like a trial attorney airbrushed onto an interstate billboard.
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Twitter Search to Become Real Search (Mashable)
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