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Donald Rumsfeld, Mike Smith and Jackie Calmes, columnist for the Wall Street Journal

Mike McCurry and Mike Smith

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mike Smith

Mike Smith and Robert Mueller

Mike Smith and Senator Kennedy

Sgt. Shaft, Washington Times, Tom Ridge and Mike Smith

Mike Smith and Tommy Thompson

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Democratic National Convention, 2008

MSBD was at the DNC convention. Mike had press credentials and worked for both Reuters.com "inside the tent" and for the Huffington Post's "off the bus" features. As a citizen blogger, Mike made connections for MSBD with politicians (Gov. Corzine and Warner, Sen. Hoyer and Rockefeller), Hollywood stars (Matthew Modine and Richard Schiff; Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon and Dana Delaney) and with journalists (CNN John King, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer).

"Had the time of my life filing five video blogs on Reuters and three more text blogs on Huff-Post" said Mike Smith. "This experience helped hone my new media skills, expand media connections for my PR work, and connect with Washington insiders. My written stuff included these three posts" (see link and three titles): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-smith

1. "Camelot Revisited" comment on Michelle Obama's Speech
2. "Al Franken: Is he good enough, smart enough?"
3. "Mark Warner Takes the National Stage" both written and video blog connected

Here are all five of the Reuters.com video blogs (each is only about 2-3 mins long). See link and five titles: http://blogs.reuters.com/from-reuterscom?s=Mike+Smith&_ctl24.x=23&_ctl24.y=8

1. Disaffected Hillary Supporters - PUMA ('party unity, my ass')
2. The Button Lady - vendors at the conv.
3. "What Would Toby Ziegler Do?" (interview with Richard Schiff at Creative Coalition party)
4. Mark Warner
5. Frank Luntz - pollster interview

Also, here is a story I wrote about my citizen journalist experiences for PR NEWS (click link below):

PR News Link

Bio from Reuters site:

Mike Smith is a Washington insider and beltway native who has deep political connections. He has national campaign and convention experience working for a key Iowa (caucus) newspaper. He also worked for a Gannett newspaper in upstate New York. Smith has a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Denver convention, he will cover tech policy platform issues along with his friend Craig Newmark of craigslist. Smith also worked as a volunteer on national traveling press and advance for the Obama for President campaign in Iowa, Texas and Virginia.

News Brief from Potomac Tech Wire:

Herndon, Va.-- Mike Smith, the head of Herndon-based public affairs firm MSBD, is working with Craig Newmark, the founder of California-based Craigslist, on his blog. Newmark's blog - called cnewmark -- is increasingly examining public policy and political issue of interest to Newmark, including participatory democracy, public policy issues, and money in politics. The two are currently working on the blog from the Democratic National Convention. "Yes, I realize that I'm in over my head, so I'm getting help from a public affairs guy Michael Smith," wrote Newmark. "Yes, I realize that I should keep my day job."