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I’m seeing upset from and others on Twitter about a disconnect between what’s on CNN now and the violence that many outlets are reporting in Syria. It feels like 2009 the #IranElection all over again, when the world finally awoke to how the real-... [read more]
While government agencies often have limited options in the approaches they choose to use for moderating third-party social media channels, there's a number of ways they can choose to moderate channels under their control, including blogs, forums... [read more]
In the community where I grew up, at the time when I grew up, there was no Internet. If you were bored on the weekend you went outside to ride bikes. You listened to bad music (I mean late '70s...we are talking really bad. Serious... [read more]
The Twitter network below was created by Marc Smith, Social Media Research Foundation. He used it in a recent workshop on Social Media Network Analysis that I organized here at Syracuse University on January 19-20. I picked it up and posted it... [read more]
Pretty cool to see other countries start hosting Facebook Chats to reach citizens and connect with folks across the globe. Next Up - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be hosting a chat in Arabic on Monday at 10:00 am... [read more]
The president’s election-year State of the Union messaging strategy this week has included increased use of social media channels in an attempt to reach audiences in a different way and extend the conversation beyond a single day news cycle. Tactics... [read more]
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The other day I was urging that we do something or other and got the response: "You're so cutting-edge." It wasn't a compliment. In the government, innovation can be scary. But we can do it if we focus on the "how" - meaning the technology platforms we can use to move us forward. Thinking about technology, rather than the... [read more]
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Congress may be moving forward on the public safety broadband network, but some Governors say that there isn’t enough involvement from state officials – the primary users of the proposed network. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Wyoming Gov. Matthew Mead (R), co-chairmen of the homeland security committee of the National Governors... [read more]
Constable Scott Mills
When P.C. Scott Mills delivers presentations to students on behalf of the Toronto Police Service, he finishes by encouraging his audience members to “friend” him on Facebook. Students initially are incredulous to this. Meeting an authority figure who understands the social media tools of their generation is a rarity. Moreover... [read more]
I really like how data.gov is launching niche communities like health.data.gov. Generally I believe if we want interest in our government data it's not going to be developing just broad "data" ecosystem. Instead, I think we need to build smaller ecosystems like transit data, health data, jobs data, education data, etc.... [read more]
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Following the very active debate on the UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange following the announcement of the publication of the Digital Participation in Scotland report I thought it worthy of a brief summary of some of what had been said and the concepts that had been considered. A key element of the debate was about participation (or e... [read more]
Often in government there's only two social media networks discussed and considered for community engagement and communications, Facebook and Twitter. MySpace is a distant memory, LinkedIn is used just for resumes and services like FourSquare, Plurk, Ning and others are not well-known. Also not that well known is Google Plus, and... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Thank you for taking the time to sift through all the junk to get to the bottom of what people are looking for. I noticed that there no salaries listed. It is the government though so I am sure they are pretty lucrative. When government jobs are posted there is no salary running and it ...
People should always come first but there are those who do not want to help ...