Listening to California CTO who is dropping some knowledge: -Titled Reinventing “We the People” -People coming into elected office now understand power of IT -Showing Governor race of California by Twitter followers -Different set of people coming into office -The medium is the mssage -511,000 political races X $10k = $5.1 billion market over 4Read… Read more »
When I talk to people about the possibilities of engaging with people online, using social technology, I often get questioned about the numbers issue. Stuff like: How many people in our area actually use Twitter? What about people who don’t have web access? What do we do about people who don’t like using the internetRead… Read more »
Over the past few months, I have been researching employee social media use policies. This post is the prologue to a series of posts to share that research. Hopefully, the information I provide will be helpful, but I also hope that you will provide feedback and guidance. What have you experienced? What should be inRead… Read more »
X-posted to WordPress – not really government related, but Social Media related: We all remember the pseudo-psychology of the 80s when Self-Esteem issues were identified and the concept beat to death as a crutch for young up and coming emergent adults when we suffered failures in life. As we approach the end of this decade,Read… Read more »
You can read my blog post that has all the information, but this shows you how a simple idea, and the RT power of Twitter is helping raise money for school children through the DonorsChoose program. Full story: http://bit.ly/EgokB Note: This post is of my own personal opinion and is not endorsed or supported byRead… Read more »
I’m live-blogging and tweeting an intensive all-day Twitter event in Washington, DC, today. Room is full of influential, high-impact learners and doers from federal agencies, media outlets, and corporations. State Dept. got a huge shout-out from Craig Newmark. Podcast coming later. Two of the most succinct pieces of advice about being online were shared thisRead… Read more »
The GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS and the increasing use SOCIAL MEDIA have created a powerful duo in changing how we reach and communicate with each other and our unique “customers.” It is helping us discover the common ground upon which we walk across the world when it comes to pioneering new possibilities in government leadership andRead… Read more »
I’m live-tweeting at @militarytweets if you want to follow the stream. Alan Murray of WSJ is interviewing Craig Newmark about his passion for good government and work helping Gov’t — particularly DoD — embrace social media and the power and effectiveness of social networking. Here’s a link to more plus a photo. Podcast coming later:Read… Read more »
A lot has been written about the need for security, after all it’s an important and well recognised issue, but I see very little about the topic of people needing privacy. Yet in many ways citizens are having their privacy compromised in ways that I doubt that they even realise. This leads to the veryRead… Read more »
Today a growing number of military units and government organizations have an official presence in social media and especially on Facebook. Unfortunately, it seems that most organizations just seem to think that being there is good enough. Their fan pages are nothing more than a place to push the same old news releases and selfRead… Read more »