Boeing and Northrop on the tanker program as well as Pratt and GE on the JSF engine program have started to use Social Media to promote their solutions. I reviewed their efforts at http://ow.ly/TLJ0, but I wanted to know your opinion of this approach. What do you think?
As government communicators, we have a responsibility to inform the public. But with unlimited acess to low cost, high impact multi media tools, it’s difficult to keep the reigns tight and steer away from propagandaizing our communication efforts. Do you experience this challenge with your governmental organization?
FOSE AND GOVSEC, U.S. LAW ANNOUNCE SPECIAL PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY ISSUES AND INITIATIVES Speakers to Focus on Global Approaches to Counter Cybersecurity Threats FALLS CHURCH, Va. – January 6, 2010 –1105 Government Information Group, the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology (IT) market, today announced it is addingRead… Read more »
Do other people’s tweets show up on my page? That’s a common first question from officials contemplating Twitter. And the ‘no’ answer is why, as social media use by politicians, officials and agencies goes increasingly mainstream, Twitter will beat out Facebook as platform of choice. This will hold true especially for official use, as publicRead… Read more »
Over the past few weeks, I’ve stepped up efforts to connect with Gov 2.0 types outside of the U.S. Looking at the Twitter community in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, helped in this, as did tweets in Japanese about Gov 2.0 Camp LA. Monday, I learned about a mature and vibrant Gov 2.0-oriented community in the Netherlands,Read… Read more »
Happy new year to all of you ! GSA’s Office of Citizen Services is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for our Third Annual Citizen Service Award. This year’s program is open to federal, state, and local government agencies. The Citizen Service Award is designed to: Recognize government offices that have superiorRead… Read more »
I just had an interesting discussion with several people, including privacy officers and ethics people revolving around the use of a Federal agency using/repurposing tweets and any potential privacy issues involved with doing so. Things seem a little unresolved and further discussion will be happening, but I’m hoping the GovLoop community can help address someRead… Read more »
First off, I believe in the potential of the open government initiative, government 2.0, whatever you wish to call it. My goal is simple, to baseline where we are in terms of basic social engagement at one of the highest levels of our government… The Senate. Here is my approach, for better or for worse:Read… Read more »
Business leaders are often far ahead of Federal-level public officials, at least in my personal experience, in understanding the use of social media strategies, tactics, and tools. I read this post, a scorecard of sorts, of government 2.0 from a “joe-average-citizen” perspective. Good post, worth a read. Understand this, there are plenty of politically activeRead… Read more »
The web site OhMyGov! ran a story called “12 Social Media for Government Stories To Remember 2009″ which listed the Flight 93 Memorial as one of the great stories of 2009. I was chatting with Kim Kobza, the CEO of Ingage Networks, formerly Neighborhood America, last week and I wanted to share with you someRead… Read more »