{"id":1351,"date":"2009-10-14T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:37:17","slug":"nasa-is-a-twitter-with-a-new-marketing-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1351\/nasa-is-a-twitter-with-a-new-marketing-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA is A-Twitter with a New Marketing Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re a career civil servant who\u2019s looking for a way to package old wine in a new wine skin. You don\u2019t have the budget for hiring hot marketing talent or revamping your website. What to do? Invite a flock of twitterers to tweet about your work. Of course, this strategy is probably a bit easier to implement if you\u2019re a NASA scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2009\/10\/14\/NASA-to-hold-Tweetup-for-shuttle-launch\/UPI-28531255527326\/\" target=\"_blank\">offering prime seating at a shuttle launch<\/a> in exchange for good publicity in the form of electronic sentence fragments. If nothing else, it will probably be a better show than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/pressRelease\/idUS143001+14-Oct-2009+PRN20091014 \" target=\"_blank\">watching a delivery of supplies to the International Space Station<\/a>.\u00a0 To be sure, transparency in government is usually a good thing, but do we really need to spend taxpayer money sharing footage of the space equivalent of a trucker delivering goods to a grocery store?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you\u2019re a career civil servant who\u2019s looking for a way to package old wine in a new wine skin. You don\u2019t have the budget for hiring hot marketing talent or revamping your website. What to do? Invite a flock of twitterers to tweet about your work. Of course, this strategy is probably a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,288,193,289],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-space-shuttle","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}