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There's An App For That: Yours.

July 12, 2010 By WHC Insider

Do you know what app’s missing when it comes to scouting out the District or making a simple poll? Luckily, there’s an app for that–if you make it, of course.

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Filed Under: Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: Android, App, Google, iPhone, Media

Video Driving Facebook? We're A Fan of That

June 28, 2010 By WHC Insider

Why bother with emails when you can leave a video on your friend’s wall in the same amount of time?

Ok, so that’s not exactly the normal Facebook etiquette, but it could soon be due to the staggering amount of video being uploaded to the social networking site.

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Filed Under: Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: Facebook, iPhone, Social Media, SocNets, Video, YouTube

Fake AP(ps) and Reports are The New Attack Ad

June 23, 2010 By WHC Insider

So long Daisy and Demon Sheep; hello mobile phones and faux-reports!

The Washington Post reports on Robert Ehrlich Jr.’s recent advertising campaign to take back the governor’s seat this year. Instead of a generic spot airing on the cable networks, the former Maryland governor provides on-location briefings via YouTube “covered” by Andy Barth, a former TV reporter and now acting as his press secretary.

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Filed Under: DC, Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: iPhone, Robert Ehrlich Jr., Social Media, SocNets, Twitter, YouTube

Will The iPad be the 2010 Crackberry?

June 22, 2010 By WHC Insider

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Who knew the iPad would become the unsung hero of Capitol Hill?

Politico reports that the gigantic iPhone–which is also making a steady increase around the Beltway–is becoming the go-to device for congressmen. Representitive Jason Chaffetz (R) neatly sums up the why: “It’s light; it’s portable. It’s accessible information. I love it.”

The iPad love is being supported among both parties, including Darrell Issa and Cliff Stearns, especially if it means an end to the backbreaking binders and committees swarmed by paper. Even better? It may kill the Blackberry addiction that has held D.C. in a vice grip for years.

DCist provides a round up of links to state the case that Apple is slowly encroaching on the nation’s capital. One day, it may even take the spot that Blackberries hold in the Beltway’s heart–presumably after the fears of leaked customer information that Valleywag reported earlier this month are taken care of. But like that matters if you’ve already sold 3 million of them, according to Mashable.

The iPad remains the ultimate staffer dream: a lighter, somewhat more portable crackberry that means an end to endless binders, show bibles and 50-lb drafts of legislation. Not to mention more people to play Words With Friends!

Filed Under: DC, News Media Tagged With: Blackberry, iPhone, Media, Social Media

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Exploring “behind the scenes” of the most powerful city in the world — Washington, D.C. — and those who cover it.

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