Presidential Cabinet Members, Leavitt and Chertoff, Became Bloggers
October 23rd, 2007
Did you know that the Bush Cabinet has some members that like to blog? It all started in August when the Health and Human Services Secretary, Mike Leavitt, said that because of the success of the pandemic flu blog, he considered writing on his own blog about day by day issues, late at night when he gets back home or to the hotel, in airplanes and even airports if there’s a little time. Leavitt is using his BlackBerry to blog about children’s health care program and such.
Another blogger that it worth mentioning here is Michael Chertoff, started one month later, in September and he is trying to “open a dialogue with the American people about our nation’s security.” Different from Leavitt, he comes up with the blog title, someone else writes it and in the end he’s doing the “editing”.
Blogging, with the country’s officials behind the wheel is a great thing for people because they fell like they could discuss their problems with the state. It’s called interaction and it feels great to know someone is answering your comments or addresses your questions.
The State Department also has a blog, which is updated, but Condoleezza Rice is not a writer there.
I would like to give some “virtual” golden medals to the two officials because what they do is a great start and I think more will consider their action in the future. Blogging is a great tool for a better image and I think politicians will understand it sooner or later.
