April 23rd, 2009

AEI Jumps on the Social Media Bandwagon

Posted by: Chris Moody

While I’ve been taking notes and learning from the social media ventures of many organizations around the District, there has been nothing but radio silence from that old Washington institution, the American Enterprise Institute.

I visited AEI’s Web site a while back, and found a dated platform with no obvious plans to engage in social media outreach.

Imagine my surprise today when I received an email that proclaimed, “AEIOnline is now following you on Twitter!”

Say what?

I checked it out, and sure enough, there was AEI tweeting away. Even AEI’s President, Arthur Brooks, is firing off tweets from his own account. He’s using hashtags and everything!

Surely if they’re on Twitter, there’s a Facebook page floating around here, I thought. (more…)