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NASA’s Neat Social Media Ventures

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This morning, NASA Astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock checked into the location-based social network, foursquare.  The surprising news?  He checked into the International Space Station.  And it’s getting a whole lot of press, from places like the AFP, PC Mag, and TechCrunch.

NASA is making a full-court press with the use of social networks.  Check out their Connect and Collaborate with NASA website.  There they link to organizational and personal accounts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, foursquare, Gowalla, ustreamTV, and Myspace.

NASA has quite a collection of social network profiles.  I wouldn’t expect any local government to rival this, but look at NASA’s profiles, and see if you can learn something from how they use Twitter, Facebook, and the like.

ICMA Local Govts Share Photos on Flickr

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The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) has had a Flickr account (a photo sharing social network) since 2008.  Today ICMA has announced that they are looking to share your photos of government in action:

In partnership with 3CMA, ICMA is seeking to capture the essence of local government through photos! Join 3CMA and ICMA on Flickr by submitting original photos of “local government action.” These photos will be used to enhance marketing materials for 3CMA, ICMA, and participating jurisdictions, as well as give the general public another way to see what’s going on in our local governments.

This is a pretty neat idea, to crowdsource (or city source, if you will) finding good photos for marking materials.

You can submit photos through their online form.