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White House Easter Egg Roll Has POTUS and K-POTUS Switch Desks

April 1, 2013 By WHC Insider

While everyone is enjoying a rather foggy morning in Washington, there’s a distinct lack of “fool” for today’s April Fool’s. The St. “Patty”‘s Day equivalent of pranking folks and generally making the Internet unreliable doesn’t occur often inside the Beltway. Except President Obama has seemed to take a shine to Robby “Kid President” Novak as Click points out:

The diminutive POTUS replacement showed up to make the formal announcement for the 2013 White House Easter Egg Roll back in February. Today he’s one of many special guests including Beasts of the Southern Wild‘s Quvenzhané Wallis, NASCAR’s Danica Patrick, Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson, Elmo, Abby, Gordon and Rosita from Sesame Street, the full cast of Super Sprowtz and pop group The Wanted.

There’s also an “Eggtivity Zone” that ” will represent the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition as players and coaches from professional sports teams teach kids how to play sports and show kids easy, fun ways to stay active and fit.” Eggsciting.

They’ll also be a bevy of costumed characters running around the White House lawn throughout the day. According to the White House, more than 300,000 Washington residents can be expected to attend throughout the day. So hopefully you’ve got your ticket and are already in line–we hear POTUS is showing up early to make an appearance. No fooling.

Filed Under: DC, Entertainment, Washington Events Tagged With: Adrian Peterson, Barack Obama, Easter Egg Roll, Elmo, Events, Kid President, Qvenzhané Wallis, Robby Novak, Seasme Street, Washington, White House Easter Egg Roll, YouTube

Pope Sends First Tweet

June 29, 2011 By WHC Insider

It looks like you can teach an 84-year-old a new trick. Pope Benedict XVI launched the Vatican’s news information portal via Twitter on Tuesday using, what else? An iPad.

This is the latest in a series of moves from the Vatican to improve communication both internally and with the public. But don’t be fooled by all the “Benedictus” handles on Twitter, the Pope does not have a personal account. The papal tweet was sent from @news_va_en.

Check out the pontiff working the touch screen in this video released on the Vatican’s YouTube Channel. Yes, the Vatican’s been on YT since 2005.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: iPad, news.va, Pope Benedict XVI, Social Media, SocNets, Twitter, Vatican, YouTube

YouTube's Interview with the President

January 28, 2011 By WHC Insider

Two days after giving his State of the Union address, President Obama took to the Internet to directly answer questions from Americans and people around the world on a wide range of subjects. Over 1.3 million people voted on almost 200,000 video and text questions submitted through Google Moderator and Twitter, picking the ones they most wanted the President to answer.

President Obama sat down for “Your Interview with the President,” hosted by YouTube’s Steve Grove, and responded to questions on subjects ranging from education reforms, healthcare, the recent unrest in Egypt, to his “pick” for the Superbowl.

Watch the entire video here:

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Google Moderator, President Obama, State of the Union, Steve Grove, Twitter, worldview, YouTube

Google & POLITICO Host 2010 Election Preview

September 27, 2010 By WHC Insider

Google and POLITICO host a 2010 Election Preview today at the Newseum.  Last night there was a lot of prep work done to prepare for a panel, interviews with David Axelrod and Ed Gillespie, and some of DC’s favorite journalists Politico’s Mike Allen and Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart who will host the event.

Check out more from Fishbowl DC’s post.

You can also watch LIVE at www.youtube.com/citizentube starting at 2:30 PM Eastern.

Filed Under: DC, Event Coverage, News Media, Washington Events Tagged With: David Axelrod, Ed Gillespie, Google, Jonathan Capehart, Mike Allen, Politico, YouTube

From VHS to VLC: The Rise of Fred Davis' Ads on the Internet

September 22, 2010 By WHC Insider

Fred Davis’ rise started with a giant rat named King Roy and continues today with Mourning in America. Not exactly the plot to a generic blockbuster but more about how ad-man Fred Davis, a GOP media consultant, grew his brand in grand part due to the Internet.

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Filed Under: DC, Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: Advertising, Fred Davis, Media, MSNBC, New Media, SocNets, Viral Video, YouTube

YouChoose YourTube

August 10, 2010 By WHC Insider

William Castle is clearly smiling down from heaven when it comes to a new trend in programming.

The Wrap reports that Comedy Central greenlit “Dwaynebook,” hosted by Dwayne Perkins. The format of the show focuses on “social networking” according to Perkins’ manager, Matt Schuler:

“It’s completely different than any other green-screen show that’s on TV, because it focuses specifically on social networking … I mean, ‘Tosh.0’ is basically about anything on the internet, ‘Web Soup’ is basically about anything on the Internet, ‘The Soup’ is basically what’s going on on TV. This just focuses on the world of social networking sites.”

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Filed Under: Media Strategy Tagged With: Dan Brown, Dwayne Perkins, Revision3, SocNets, YouTube

4600 Hours So Far for A Life In A Day

August 6, 2010 By WHC Insider

Like cribbing a line from RENT, it turns out there’s 276,000 minutes in A Life In A Day.

The crowdsourced documentary experiment from executive producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald is a partnership between LG, YouTube and the Sundance Institute to document one day (July 24th 2010) around the world. According to a press release from yesterday, the great culling of digital ‘celluoid’ has begun under Macdonald and 20 other editors.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Media Strategy, News Tagged With: 11-4-08, 140, Documentary, Film, SocNets, Sundance, Tony Scott, YouTube

Michelle Obama to Work Out The Web World Wide

July 14, 2010 By WHC Insider

Don’t listen to the Internet Troll: we can (and will) work it out online. Or at least, work out.

That’s the motivator behind Let’s Move, an initiative to promote physical activity and public health.  First Lady Michelle Obama responded to questions from YouTube and a live web chat according to Politico.

Let’s Move follows the continuing trend of providing sites and the occasional web app to connect with a broader and more technologically savvy audience.

Filed Under: DC Tagged With: DC, Michelle Obama, YouTube

America Speaks to BP: LIVE Interview with Bob Dudley 3:30 PM ET

July 1, 2010 By WHC Insider


Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bob Dudley, BP, Google, News Hour, Oil Spill, YouTube

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.

[Read more…]

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

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