{"id":22651,"date":"2011-03-21T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22651"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:24:57","slug":"va-takes-on-reichoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22651","title":{"rendered":"VA takes on Reichoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Alex Horton, recently chosen to be the social media guru at the Department of Veterans Affairs got a little angry at Paul Reickhoff the Executive Director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who, by the way, is NOT our buddy, no matter how hard he tries to buy me off. Reickhoff did an interview at the Huffington Post<\/a> during which he said;<\/p>\n

\u201cI would also argue the VA does a pretty crappy job of outreach. They\u2019re not really using social media. They\u2019re not really active on places like Facebook. So they\u2019re not going to where the Vets are. It\u2019s kind of an old bricks and mortar system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alex responded;<\/p>\n

In reality, over the past year, VA has made a serious investment to methodically reach Veterans where they are online. Looking at the numbers, we see that while IAVA has a single Facebook page with over 205,000 fans, VA has 87 Facebook pages\u2014with a combined subscribership of nearly 220,000 fans. VA\u2019s main Facebook page alone has 100,000 subscribers\u2014making it one of the largest in the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to agree with Alex; the DVA has been successful at reaching out, it was probably the worst-founded criticism Paul could have made about the DVA. If Reickhoff was going to make the most of his interview, he could have complained about the total incompetence which results in veterans getting screwed out of their benefits instead of complaining about stupid shit like “outreach”. <\/p>\n

But this is the guy who attacks teenage girls<\/a> with specious charges.<\/p>\n

On edit:<\/strong> Oh for crap’s sake. That post at the DVA was written by Beeker<\/a> and not Horton. I didn’t even know that Beeker could write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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