Anne Schroder Mullins recently wrote a piece about the creators of the "Auto-Tune" web videos. [sorta viral] The quote of the story goes to Pete Snyder, the CEO and president of New Media Strategies: Snyder sees little downside for politicians being featured in an “Auto-Tune the News” video… “I wouldn’t …

In an effort to put paper phone books completely out of business, National Journal – in collaboration with Jive – JESS3 and New Media Strategies has launched an interactive professional online network called 3121. [3121 is the phone extension of the Capitol switchboard] In a nutshell, 3121 is a dynamic …

Interns — you can go work for a member of Congress – who might or might not disappoint you, or you can bench press your brain and do something fun. A tipster tells us New Media Strategies is hiring interns. More info here .  Do it.

From New Media Strategies to Air America After six years in Washington, D.C., Jen Nedeau is heading to New York City to become Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media, where she will be reporting to the former DC-ite, Michael Bassik, who is the current Chief Digital Officer. Nedeau …

It was an epic overtime battle, but in the end, the Rush Limbaugh of Twitter was narrowly defeated by the Howard Stern of Social Media .  Congrats to Gagnon and the NMS machine on the huge upset.  A big thanks to @patrickruffini for a great run. Finally tally: [closer than …

On Sunday night, while most of us were anxiously anticipating Hugh Jackman’s next dance move, one DC based firm was fast at work. New Media Strategies, who happens to employ some pretty darn good social media experts, captured the Oscar buzz by following the action via Twitter. According to NMS …

Howard Mortman recently broke our hearts when he decided to close down his blog and take a job at CSPAN.  And while the political internets won’t be the same without him, we’re comforted to know that Mortman’s new challenge involves attempting to make CSPAN hip. The only question left:  Just …

Everyone knows FamousDC is a big fan of Extreme Mortman. We thought he’d be around forever, like Dan Snyder. It looks like Mr. Extreme is changing jobs and saying goodbye to Extreme Mortman. Naturally, we’re sad to the see the site go, but we wish Howard all the best at …

Extreme Mortman should be named to the Obama Transition team; his suggested government expansion is genius. Extreme Mortman: Why The Government Needs A U.S. Department Of Irony Like most Americans, we’ve been actively following the latest Charlie Rangel news as presented on Instapundit (an update even today). … So imagine …

Last night we experimented with our Twitter friends. We wrote: “Who wants to be FamousDC’s first Twitterer of the Day? Be the first to send us a public reply and we’ll feature you tomorrow.” Within seconds, Lauren Cook responded: “No whammies, No whammies!” Well, she didn’t hit any whammies and …

Blog P.I. brings us the latest on the NMS – CSPAN announcement: I don’t write about clients often. When I do it’s really something, and this is really something: New Media Strategies will be working through the conventions with C-SPAN, perhaps my favorite Beltway news organizations, to run their Convention …