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To: Fred Nerks; LucyT; null and void
The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs. Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with placing anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic.

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63 posted on 10/02/2009 8:44:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSM BIAS: the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell)
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Tracy J. Russo
Tracy J. Russo

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Tracy J. Russo’s Summary

Tracy Russo currently directs the new media strategy at the United States Department of Justice. Prior to joining the Justice Department she formed Russo Strategies, LLC, a progressive political consulting firm that specialized in new media strategies. She is well known for her online outreach work and her ability to integrate online communications and new media opportunities with all aspects of traditional campaigns and organizations.

During the presidential primary, as the Chief Blogger and Deputy Director of Online Communications for the John Edwards campaign, she directed and executed an online communications and outreach strategy. She also helped to develop and execute an aggressive online fundraising strategy and mobile media plan. Her work has been routinely praised as the best in the field.

Prior to joining the Edwards campaign, Russo worked at the DNC. She has advised Democratic candidates and state parties on ways to enhance their online communications and outreach capacities and effectively connect with the progressive blogosphere.

Russo is the founder of WIPT, Women in Politics and Technology, an all women, member-driven organization that seeks to connect women working at the crossroads of politics and technology, provide support and resources to women in these industries and, encourage more women, especially young women, to enter the fields of politics and technology.

She has been a featured speaker at the YearlyKos Convention, the Take Back America Conference and the Center for American Progress' Internet Advocacy Roundtable and Personal Democracy Forum. In addition, she has trained hundreds of individuals at home and abroad in the best practices of online engagement in partnership with a variety of organizations, including the DNC, DLCC, EMILY's List, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, and the New Organizing Institute and George Washington University.

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    Women in Politics and Technology

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    March 2007Present (2 years 8 months)

    Women in Politics and Technology is an organization designed to connect, empower and encourage women working at the crossroads of politics and technology.


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65 posted on 10/02/2009 8:54:07 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: GOPJ
The unit is housed in the Office of Public Affairs. Not only is the Department of Justice Blog Squad going to reach out to nontraditional media like TPM Muckraker or the Muffled Oar, but they are also tasked with placing anonymous comments at conservative leaning blogs such as the Free Republic.

I am certainly missing something here. What is going on ? People are working for the Justice Department to bad mouth the Justice Department on blogs and newsprint?? I really do not understand what this is about.,

201 posted on 10/02/2009 3:51:08 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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