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9 November 2008

Excellence is a useful reference point

From this week on it’s going to be a lot easier to argue for government being part of social networks.

When I saw Obama’s “beautiful behind the scenes images” from election night on his Flickr page and read the comments, I was struck by how this approach was smack-bang right in the middle of the mainstream now.

I know you know, but chances are most of your colleagues now have a notion too.

I liked Marina Hyde’s opinion piece in the Guardian on Saturday.

…this week people were reminded of what an inspiring politician sounds like, and how he carries himself. Excellence is a useful reference point. While that memory remains fresh in the public mind, people will be measuring their own leaders against it…

We know he didn’t take the photos himself, didn’t upload them to Flickr. But they are still real, authentic and human.

Not too many councillors, general managers or council workers are as eloquent as Obama. But most are in fact real, authentic and human.

Perhaps they should show it.

— b3rn   flickr, the persuader   Nov 9, 08:43 PM   #

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