Government 2.0 on LinkedIn
I'm jumping in as an admin of Ric Cantrell's Government 2.0 group on LinkedIn, and would love Govloopers' thoughts on how that group can be really useful. It's pretty big, and I bet as more and more career govies get interested (or are compelled to get interested), LinkedIn is going to be a major entry point. I'm also happy to be involved with the group because it is the very first place I learned about the Gov 2.0 movement, and it's also where I met Steve Ressler and learned about GovLoop.
Are you a member of that group? How do you use it? How could it improve? What do you think is important for people who've heard about Gov 2.0 and are diving in? I also hope that GovLoop folks will continue to cross pollinate this and other Gov 2.0 outposts on the social web. Thanks!
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Tags: GovLoop, LinkedIn, collaboration government, gov2, gov20, government 2.0, networking, opengov
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Krzmarzick on -
Hey Adriel - For a couple months now, I have been thinking about how to coordinate/integrate the activity of the government groups on LinkedIn with GovLoop (Ric's group was one of them)...so this is a timely forum discussion. There ought to be a way for us to exchange relevant content from each site and accelerate the "time-to-answer" for people posing questions and sharing information.
Other LinkedIn groups that I have been thinking about in terms of integration/coordination:
- U.S. Government Connections created by Andrew Meringoff, 10K members)
- Defense Connections created by Andrew Meringoff (10K Members)
- DC Connections created by Andrew Meringoff (17K Members)
- U.S. Government Relations and Public Affairs created by Jeffrey Taylor (8K Members)
- Department of Defense created by Bill Branstetter (3K Members)
I have reached out to Andrew a bit, but we haven't nailed anything down. Does anyone know Jeffrey or Bill?
Am I missing other groups?
My hunch is that we have concentric circles here where there's some overlap...but where we can bring immense value to those people who are not yet linked to one another. What if we could connect thousands more government-related folks with a little more outreach and collaborative cross-posting?
I'm all in for giving significant time and energy to the cause.
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Permalink Reply by Adriel Hampton on -
Andy, I'm hoping to write a blog post about this tonight. I'll include a link to this discussion and quote your thoughts, and I can mail to Jeffrey Taylor, as I'm a member of his group.
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on -
I think key with groups is to be consistent...so perhaps post 2-3 question/blog post a week on it...from places like g2r, govloop, and across web..
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Krzmarzick on
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Steve - like this idea...I'd say even daily. 2-3 Best of GovLoop cross-post to LinkedIn...get convos going there for people more comfortable who prefer LI, but ref what's happening here, too. Practically speaking, I'd be happy to make this part of my morning routine...look for best of previous day and share on LI.
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Permalink Reply by Adriel Hampton on
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Andy, that would be a great service to the folks on the LinkedIn community. Please do!
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Permalink Reply by Bridget Hardy on -
Im a member of the GovLoop LinkedIn group and find the email updates quite useful, but the twitter updates and direct email updates from GovLoop are more useful. I was not aware of these other Linked In groups. Overall my thoughts would be that people fall into one or other group fairly randomly depending on where the first introduction came from, do not generally thereafter manage their groups very closely being content that information is appearing in inbox or timeline regularly. I expect like me some are slightly confused about the number of different group they belong to. Conclusion is that rationalising the LI groups is probably good, but at the same time replicating the dissemination of information across many groups also has to happen. And finally, my experience is that LinkedIn groups work well when they are small and closely focussed so people use them for interaction, and that other means are ideally better for receiving updates and newsfeeds - such as twitter or direct email. However we don't live in an ideal world yet.
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Permalink Reply by Adriel Hampton on
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Hmm, lots of stuff there! I think as much as we'd like to be able to post everything once and have people find it, the truth is that we need to continue to cross-promote the best information and networking opportunities. I, too, prefer Twitter for direct networking and info exchange, but it's amazing how active LI is, and many people have invested a lot of time and energy there - or have just put a toe in, but that's where that toe went.
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