Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology - washingtonpost.com
What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology - washingtonpost.com
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