Obama: The YouTube President

For those of you who attended our breakfast this past Thursday (”The President & The Media: Who’s In Charge Here?) know that President-Elect Barack Obama is not only one of the most technologically saavy people moving into the Oval Office but is already starting to make his presence known on YouTube.

Bravo Mr. President-Elect!

Obama plans to make weekly YouTube speech
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 11/14/2008 10:28:56 PM PST

CHICAGO - This isn’t your grandfather’s fireside chat. President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too.

Obama was recording a four-minute address Friday at his transition office in Chicago. It will be posted today through a YouTube link on his transition Web site, www.change.gov. And he will continue to do the videos when he takes office on Jan. 20.

And he won’t be the only one in his administration taking a starring role online. Transition leaders and policy advisers will also appear in videos on a regular basis, Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

FOR INFORMATION ON CHANGE.GOV THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT CLICK HERE