I think microblogging inside organizations can be a transformative, disruptive technology to enable faster, more succinct communications. Anyone using microblogging inside their firewall? How is it helping or hindering work, results, and decision making? Do you think microblogging is useful for collaboration, instant messaging, status sharing, and situational awareness? Do you know of any success stories in government?
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There are pretty active government community online using microblogging. For example the #gov20 #opengov #govloop hashtags have pretty good dialgoues with a community of people around government. Govtwit.com is also a great directory of it.
There have been some discussion of Yammer and Presently on GovLoop about internal microblogging.
https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/yammer-or-presently
I’m not sure there has been any full implementations inside government yet.