January 14, 2009 - Posted by Clarissa Peterson
This week Congress launched the official congressional YouTube channels, where each senator and representative will have a page to post video of speeches, news clips, or messages to constituents.
Although each member of Congress has an official website on the house.gov or senate.gov domain, it had been difficult for members of Congress to communicate with constituents through unofficial online venues such as YouTube or MySpace due to outdated congressional rules that banned advertisements or certain types of links on "member websites."
The web use rules, which were created years before the existence of social networking websites, were finally updated in October 2008, allowing members of Congress more latitude in using the internet for official communications.
Categories: Media & Technology
