Carla Bruni and Sarah Brown Join Digital World
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:25AM 
France's First Lady Carla Bruni's new websiteCarla Bruni has a new website, one that crashed soon after launch, but it's up and running now. What a totally fabulous idea that Bruni is able to have her own identity and online presence, in spite of Sarko being the French president.
Sarah Brown led the way of First Ladies having a digital presence.
If you remember she Twittered and blogged her way through Europe in July and has now overtaken Stephen Fry as Britain's top Twitterer. Sarah Brown tweeted that she's a bit bemused by her line drawing in Madame Bruni's online friends gallery.
Before we view her displeasure as more of the same British/French national loathing posing as friendly rivalry, the Telegraph UK writes that Carla's drawing is the weirdest of all.
Back to Carla Bruni's website. It's a mix of French cultural intersts -- we learn that "l'enfant terrible de la mode" Jean Paul Gaultier has joined Madame Bruni's Fondation Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Yes, indeedy, Carla is allowed to have a foundation, just as Sarah Brown is allowed to Twitter.
Given the dramatically greater presence of European women than Americans in government, this makes sense. See A of C: Women are a Mighty Force in German Politics.
If you remember both Sarah Brown and Carla Bruni were more than fashion ornaments in New York when President Obama addressed the United Nations and Michelle looking simply stunning in her red dress.
Sarah Brown was busy that night as the keynote speaker at Queen Rania's (and Wendi Murdock and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi) Important Dinner for Women, a gathering of 300 of the most important women in the world. The focus was global maternal health and child mortality rates.
Michelle Obama stuck by her man that night, unable to attend the Important Dinner for Women gathering alone. Carka was working on George Soros, where she garned a big donation for her foundation.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy echoed UNAIDS call to virtually eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015 while addressing the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and leaders at a side event to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.Here we see Bruni and Sarkozy endorsing the UNAIDS call to virtually eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015.
Carla did the talking. Those French are so very liberated and even willing to take risks with their political wives, trusting them to speak before the whole world. If you speak French, her speech is on the website.
As well, Bruni has posted 10 key facts about AIDS and its transmission in the population.
Bruni was also allowed to sing in New York on Nelson Mandela's Brithday celebration in New York. We covered the celebration on Anne of Carversville, although not Carla's singing. The videos focus on African performers.
Carla Bruni, Sarah Brown in Global FLs 
