Tech

Open Gov West conference happening this weekend…

I know this is a bit late notice but I didn’t want you to miss out on this really cool and first of its kind opportunity in this area. Site: http://opengovwest.com Register: http://ogw.eventbrite.com/ Open Government is about transparency, participation, and collaboration. Our region – the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia – is positioned to lead theRead… Read more »

City of Sugar Land – Avoiding Social Media Turbulence

FY10 City Manager Established Strategic Project to figure out if we could do it and how to do it -Evaluate Policy Needs First-Establish Social Media as an Additional Official Commnication Tool Leadership wanted to know-What other local gov agencies currently using? Primarily interested in what other state of TX doing? -What info being communicated? -Policy/guidelinesRead… Read more »

9 Ways City Councils Can Use Facebook

This is a crosspost of http://dotgov.com With more than 50 million Americans on Facebook, there is no better place to bring local government to their constituents and to engage constituents in their City Council. Yet, a search for City Councils already on Facebook results in mainly United Kingdom and Australian Councils; American Councils number lessRead… Read more »

NASA Social Media Tips/Tricks

Tips/Tricks from NASA on Social Media: Want to host a tweetup? Center around event/conference Set up registration website Plan activities – things to see/touch, brief presentations, people to meet Interact with tweeters Be techno-ready electricity, wi-fi, cell access Share the tweetup experience Took a long time to get Internet access to Spacestation -lots of worriesRead… Read more »

Prepared for Plano – Live blogging from Soc Media for Govt

Prepared in Plano Internal challenges-legal – establish a workable policy -PIO – empower PIO-Records – Policy for record keeping, who keeps them, how does your legal requirements overlap-Credibility/Verification – Use widgets on official site, come up with logo or name that is persona, post links to your media sites to show authenticity External Challenges -MaliciousRead… Read more »

Is Voting really a measure of success

I watched the People’s Politician over the weekend via the BBC iPlayer and started to think about whether “Voting” was a real measure of success of whether people feel engaged or not? In the episode we saw Ann Widdecombe Conservative MP for Maidstone get given a camera to do her first podcast and the questionRead… Read more »

Twitter’s First Government Case Study

The USGS has become Twitter’s first-ever Government case study on their Twitter 101 for Business page. The account highlighted is the @USGSted account (Twitter Earthquake Detector). The snippet from the site: One of the U.S. Geological Survey’s unique responsibilities is the monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, which affect the daily lives of people around theRead… Read more »