Joseph’s Blog – josephrodgers.com

I began training a new volunteer today when I realized that I had tools all over the place. I start my day with a auto email from highrise detailing my daily tasks. That is sent at 6am so I check that first thing. Then I head to work and check my email marketing reports from Mailchimp mobile. When I get to work I fire up the company Facebook page to check for new posts and reply to relevant info. Once a week I craft a company email that targets volunteers and fans alike. I haven’t mentions email because it is checked way too often throughout the day. When volunteers reply to the company email and want to schedule times to help I enter those times into google calendar. Twittering throughout the day, follown certain keywords such as “Diamond Bear” and “#craftbeer”. I text my coworkers for quick replies, add new contacts to highrise. Add new notes to contacts in highrise. Add tasks and check off completed tasks in highrise. That is usually before 9am. Dang.

I wrote an email about the White House to social media tycoon Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation.

Mitch,
Long time reader/listener looking forward to your new book.

My question is regarding the White House and Social Media. Given the success of President Obama online and his presence in social media during his campaign, what will happen as he leaves the White House? Yes, this might be premature but it seems relevant.

My first thoughts are that politics with social media is here to stay but a transition of parties might get ugly. Would the content on whitehouse.gov just keep building? Will he transfer his massive database to his successor? Will he hand over his Twitter account? I know you will have some thoughtful insight even though you are a raging cannuck. Spell check that for me.

Sincerely,
Joseph

He responded with a podcast response. He is always insightful and he should volunteer to be my social media mentor. This topic will be a follow up response/blog post. You can see the iPhone version of his website below, awesome.