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Integrating an online community engagement strategy
Republished from eGov AU. When I wrote my first online community engagement strategy for Telstra’s Wireplay service in 1997, one of the factors I considered was how to ‘complete the loop’ – integrate inbound and outbound online channels to reach, engage and promote interaction across the widest possible audience. In those days we used massRead… Read more »
GovTwit Week in Review 8/23 – 8/29
Busy weekend, so consider this the “day-late but hopefully not dollar short” edition of the week in review… ~~~~~~ Great commentary posted on the “Web 2.0 Revolution” by GSA CIO Casey Coleman over at Federal Times last week where she draws parallels between Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” writings and the rise ofRead… Read more »
Disconnect, Regenerate, and Reconnect
This outside of the government talk, however I felt the need to share my little experience since it helped me out. Last week my family and I moved into our new home. We’ve been looking forward to it’s completion for several months now. I spent from Wed to this morning being completely disconnected from work,Read… Read more »
Census 2010 Under-reporting initiatives
Interesting article below about Census Outreach. Author believes that more resources should be allocated to newspapers to reach the community. I agree that more needs to be done to reach minorities but NOT sure that newspapers are the right medium. I think he is spot on about the Mainstream Media Agency possibly being out ofRead… Read more »
Value of Twitter (microblogging) inside government
Here’s a link to another blog about the value of microblogging which I responded to. Hope you all find it useful and I hope it generates some discussion. http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/08/the_value_of_twitter.php
28 reasons why organisations avoid social media – (try it as bingo)
Jeff Bullas has written a fantastic post, 28 Reasons Why The CEO Is Afraid Of Social Media, which lists many of the reasons given by organisations when resisting getting involved with online social media. While he’s followed up with another great post addressing many of these concerns, 9 Ways To Convince The CEO To UseRead… Read more »
Good links for Social Media Policy/Best Practices
Here are a few links I like to send out when it comes to questions on how to use new/social media. There are many more resources out there, including some nice short videos on twitter and social networking. In fact, just thinking about it now, it would be nice to have a page of linksRead… Read more »
State Dept: Liveblogging Public Diplomacy / Gov 2.0 Innovation Dr Jonathan Margolis
Dr. Jonathan Margolis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gov 2.0 Innovation / Public Diplomacy Mission: Engage, inform and influence foreign audiences in discussions about topics that are central to US interests. How will we use Web 2.0 tools and technologies to achieve this mission? One solution follows: Democracy video challenge: Challenge young filmmakers, democracy advocatesRead… Read more »
Love the Networks? Hate the Maintenance?
One of the key issues, aside from and never forgetting a good Social Media Policy, is the allotment of resources to maintain and monitor your various forums. Many of the various forums allow you to port (import) or stream one thread platform into another. For example, I utilize FaceBook as my onestop center, and IRead… Read more »