Howard Greenstein's Website

The website of Howard Greenstein of the Harbrooke Group

Picture Paints 1000 words – How Obama reinvented campaign finance

Communication Nation: How Obama reinvented campaign finance Barack Obama is the first major candidate to decline participation in the public financing system for presidential campaigns. He’s found a more effective way to raise money –


SocialWebTV- Episode 1

Coming out of the Supernova 2008 conference, three social web developers have started a show to discuss some of the top issues around openness and give an intelligent backgrounder on the disagreements between Google


Meme of the week – Blacklisting Bloggers and bad PR pitches

What seems to have come to a head over the last few days is the concept of Bloggers “blacklisting” PR firms that pitch them in a way they don’t want to be pitched. Gina


Leverage Virtual connections in real life, part 2

In this post on using “Live Connections to Leverage Virtual Connections to get new, important Live Connections” I wrote last month, I interviewed Chuck Hester of iContact. Today, the NYTimes had the same idea. Congrats


Dinner with a Member of UK Parliment

In what has become something of a trend after my UN meeting last month, another friend invited me to meet with a world leader to discuss Social Media. (That actually sounds more formal than