Another of the Governing magazine articles on social media in government: Tweeting for the Public Good, about the State of Utah’s authorization of employees’ use of social media.   I enjoyed the entire article, but especially liked this point:

In too many instances, the first inclination of public-agency managers still is to restrict access to popular social-networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube for rank-and-file employees.

That is ironic when you consider some of the terrific uses that state and local governments have found for these tools.

The article mentions the Utah state web portal, which is here.  They also have a list of state government Twitterers and blogs.