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Website Review: So How Do We Feel Now?

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on June 17, 2009

Link: http://people-press.org
Rating: ★★★★½

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is good “reality check” website that offers ongoing and new research on key public topics.

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Article Review: The Language of New Government

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on June 17, 2009

Article: What’s Elevated, Health-Care Provider?
Source:  Wall Street Journal
By:  Peggy Noonan
Rating: ★★★★½

The indecipherable language of government has actually become dangerous to the well-being of the nation. As the federal government claims ever greater powers, its language has become vague to the point of meaningless, and meaningless to the point of menacing.”

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Engaging

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on June 17, 2009

Meaningful engagement.  Time was that this was just a buzz phrase for some kumbaya public consultation of the 1980’s and ‘90’s. If you were going to consult with the public, you had to show that you had an effective process to “engage” the public in public consultation.

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Caring About Us

Written by Bob Ransford on June 17, 2009

So, you don’t care about your community? Our civil society isn’t really of any value to you? You really couldn’t care less about the freedoms you enjoy—like being able to access this web site or any one of your choosing while freely surfing the web?

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Civic Disengagement

Written by Joanna Piros on June 17, 2009

There might be an optimistic spin that can be put on the low turnout (52%) and it comes from the fact that here, and everywhere, the most vocal demonstrations and arguments are put forward by those who are opposed to something, rather than those who support it.

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Article Review: Brand Obama

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on June 17, 2009

Article: Desirée (Desirée Rogers is selling the White House)
Source:  WSJ Magazine
By:  Amy Chozick

Rating: ★★★★½

Are ya tired of the Obamas yet? Neither am I – I’m learning a lot about a fresh kind of outreach – both from the President and from the First Lady.  But there’s more, and this article features one of the key “marketers” of the public face of the Obama’s.

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Book Review: Grown Up Digital

Written by Bruce Rozenhart on June 17, 2009

Grown Up Digital.
By: Don Tapscott
Rating: ★★★★★

The “Net Generation” has come of age.  In 2008, the eldest of the generation turned 31 – this according to author Don Tapscott.

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