Thursday, June 28, 2007

The Impact of Blogs: Washington 2.0

As I've said before navel gazing is rarely a good thing...but I still do it. Blogging about blogging definitely falls into this category, but there is a great article by Chris Frates of Politico.com (along with Jeanne Cummings) reporting about the efficacy of blogs in the public policy world.

Our high tech policy blog was our company's first blog launched in February of 2005 and we have found it to be a great way to be a part of policy discussions. Verizon's policy blog, Google's blog and NAM's blog are mentioned in the story and as Verizon's John "CZ" Czwartacki correctly points out, "Absent a blog, absent an online voice, it's happening completely without us. It's a conversation. If you're going to talk about a policy matter that's important to Verizon, we'd like to have an earned seat at the table. You ignore this conversation at your own risk."


Read more at blogs.cisco.com.

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