Friday March 5, 2010 Statement from the American Federation of Government Employees: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) today mourns the recent passing of a beloved member of the AFGE family. Former Communications Director Magda Lynn Seymour lost her lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis on February 23rd. Madga was an integral part of theRead… Read more »
Dr. GovLoop has been scouring the Web to find awesome content…and here’s a blog post that caught his attention over coffee this morning. Originally posted on WhoRunsGovBy Greg Palmer Mar 04 2010, 10:30 PM How did I convince one of the world’s largest bureaucracies to enter the blogosphere? Trust me, it wasn’t easy. NYC’s DepartmentRead… Read more »
We had a fantastic London LocalGovCamp yesterday. LocalGovCamp is really a series of events across the country – local government unconferences focusing on the use of social media and collaboration in local government (and it’s not all techy – lots of it is about rethinking the way local government works and radical efficiency). For theRead… Read more »
Well, below are some tips for strategic consideration. Public relations and marketing is about the conversation. Right? And, depending on which camp you are in; communications, marketing or both, you can more effectively enable “conversation” by shaping opinion, and opening the door towards selling the products, services and information you offer with MarCom 2.0. MarComRead… Read more »
Recently, the City Manager sent me a link to the video, Cities Matter – From the Front Door to the Car Door. Sentimental? Perhaps. I wasn’t familiar with the site on which the video is posted, 12Seconds.tv, but it is apparently to video as Twitter is to texting; it is a video platform that willRead… Read more »
My company, JANSON Communications, released today a study of military Facebook pages. The study examines the use of Facebook pages by the U.S. military to identify trends, best practices and typical uses. JANSON’s Research and Analysis team examined over 680 military pages during two weeks in January and grouped the pages into four category types;Read… Read more »
It seems we’re regularly being served additional reminders about the way we sometimes use social messaging to our detriment, and with increasing frequency, how it is sometimes being used against us. Consider the Janine Krieber kerfuffle, where the wife of former Canadian Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion criticized the current state of the party inRead… Read more »
So what exactly is #localgovchat and what do we hope to accomplish? As you can see from our first post, we want to start what we hope to be an ongoing, open dialogue between local government communicators – public relations, community outreach, webmasters, graphic designers – in hopes of sharing ideas, our successes and ourRead… Read more »
It’s the latest buzz, the Department of Defense (DoD) announcement that it had finally issued policy on Internet Based Capabilities early afternoon on February 26, 2010. I’m excited to see it finally arrive, but in some sense it’s a surprise left cold and waiting like a ragged banana peel discarded last fall and finally uncoveredRead… Read more »
Kevin Kelly is one of those old-time Internet institutions. He’s the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. His Cool Tools blog is one I follow regularly through the RSS feed. I was recently referred, however, to his Technium blog and the post “The Game-ified Life”. InRead… Read more »