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Congressman Live Blogs Capitol Lockdown
 The Rayburn House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol is under lockdown today because someone heard shots fired in the garage of the Rayburn building. Capitol police have been busy all morning investigating the incident and there has been a swarm of media coverage. Congressman Jack Kingston (R - GA) has been live blogging the incident from inside the Rayburn building. He has a blog called Jack's Blog.
The Congressman did have one staff member who was at the House Staff Gym of the Rayburn House Office Building when it was put under lockdown. She was taken to the hospital because she was "a little shaken up" by the incident.
This morning, a member of Congressman Kingston's staff was in the House Staff Gym when the Rayburn House Office Building was put under lockdown due to alleged gun shots. Under guidance of law enforcement officials, the staffer was taken via ambulance to the hospital. She was not injured or shot, just a little shaken up under the circumstances.
We have been in contact with our colleague and she is doing well.
Fortunately, she has since been released from the hospital and is headed home.
Hopefully, the incident will soon end as well. The latest reports say the Capitol Police are continuing to search the Rayburn building but so far no suspects have been found.
Posted on May 26, 2006
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Nancy Pelosi Offers Blogging Tips
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offered some blog tips for fellow Democrats on her website. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) noticed Pelosi's Blogging 101 and quickly blogged that five of the seven blogs Pelosi recommended as examples were Republican blogs. Raw Story has an article on the tips that includes some funny back and forth between spokespersons for Pelosi and Kington. Raw Story also listed one of Pelosi's tips -- "blog often" -- which is a good tip and something experienced bloggers do.
Among her blog tips: "The most important thing is to blog often. Posts do not need to be extensive or long. It can be as simple as, 'I found this article on the budget in the Washington Post today very interesting. Click here to read.'"
The likely reason why Pelosi's blog page linked to so many Republican blogs is because few House Democrats were blogging at the time.
The tips, formerly here, have since been removed from the Democratic leader's website.
The blog tips have since been removed from Pelosi's website. The old link can be found here in case it reappears later. Rep. Kingston has posted a PDF of Pelosi's tips on his site. Here are a couple other useful tips from the Blogging 101:
Blog content
There are several blogs such as Daily Kos or Huffington Post that your member can blog on. All you need to do is set up an account (free) and post content. There are other sites that have guest bloggers and do interviews such as TPM Cafe and Raw Story. Blog content needs to be original and have personal voice...posting a press release will not go over well.
Tough skin
Many members are concerned that when they post on an existing blog they will receive comments that they are not in control of. The long and the short of it is, they're right. It's part of the community and you can't worry about it.
A tough skin is definitely required if you want to enter the political blogosphere.
Posted on April 21, 2006
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