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Bill Gates gets social
Tuesday, Feb 02 2010 | Author and
categories:Andrew Goss
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In a move to get more personal, Bill Gates, the now
Co-chair and Trustee of The Gates Foundation, has
emerged with a new Twitter page and a web site dubbed
"The Gates Notes."
The software-mogul-turned-philanthropist's Gates Notes site appears to be a repository for his thoughts on the range of topics from education to energy. The site is separated into sections like "What I'm Thinking About," "What I'm Learning" and "My Travels." On the site's home page, there is a brief explanation of it saying;
"Every January, Bill writes an Annual Letter, which includes his thoughts on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and progress it is making toward achieving its goals. Interest in the 2009 Annual Letter was one reason Bill decided to create the Gates Notes website."
That annual letter came out January 25 this year.
Bills Gates' Twitter page @BillGates went live on the microblogging site on Tuesday, January 19 with this tweet: "'Hello World.' Hard at work on my foundation letter — publishing on 1/25." Gates was welcomed to Twitter almost immediately with a tweet from actor Ashton Kutcher, the unofficial ambassador of the microblogging site. At last check on Wednesday, January 20, just one day after joining Twitter, Gates had more than 240,000 followers. And since I love cyber-snooping, I wanted to take a look at who Gates was following. It was an interesting mix of organizations like relief organization UNICEF, celebrities like actor Ashton Kutcher and techno-geeks like CNET's Ina Fried. With only 40 people Gates was following as of late January, must be quite an honor to have the world's richest person following you!
While I'm certain Gates isn't developing any of the content for The Gates Notes or @BillGates, I'm relatively sure Gates has a decent amount of input (i.e. final say) into what is being published. Not sure what the driving impetus was for the new Internet push, but it certainly couldn't hurt The Gates Foundation's efforts. In this day and age, it appears nothing's off limits and everything needs to be open for the public.
-posted by Andrew
The software-mogul-turned-philanthropist's Gates Notes site appears to be a repository for his thoughts on the range of topics from education to energy. The site is separated into sections like "What I'm Thinking About," "What I'm Learning" and "My Travels." On the site's home page, there is a brief explanation of it saying;
"Every January, Bill writes an Annual Letter, which includes his thoughts on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and progress it is making toward achieving its goals. Interest in the 2009 Annual Letter was one reason Bill decided to create the Gates Notes website."
That annual letter came out January 25 this year.
Bills Gates' Twitter page @BillGates went live on the microblogging site on Tuesday, January 19 with this tweet: "'Hello World.' Hard at work on my foundation letter — publishing on 1/25." Gates was welcomed to Twitter almost immediately with a tweet from actor Ashton Kutcher, the unofficial ambassador of the microblogging site. At last check on Wednesday, January 20, just one day after joining Twitter, Gates had more than 240,000 followers. And since I love cyber-snooping, I wanted to take a look at who Gates was following. It was an interesting mix of organizations like relief organization UNICEF, celebrities like actor Ashton Kutcher and techno-geeks like CNET's Ina Fried. With only 40 people Gates was following as of late January, must be quite an honor to have the world's richest person following you!
While I'm certain Gates isn't developing any of the content for The Gates Notes or @BillGates, I'm relatively sure Gates has a decent amount of input (i.e. final say) into what is being published. Not sure what the driving impetus was for the new Internet push, but it certainly couldn't hurt The Gates Foundation's efforts. In this day and age, it appears nothing's off limits and everything needs to be open for the public.
-posted by Andrew