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Social Media for Government Communications

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Software provider Adobe’s Government Bits Blog has a great post on using social media for government communications:

One lesson from social media is the immediacy and richness of information that can be shared through digital channels. Blogs, online video sharing platforms and Twitter have demonstrated the power and desire by the public to share information quickly and easily.

An example of injecting social media lessons into achieving core agency missions is the French Government, who in partnership with students of EPITA (France Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies) created a cross-platform widget, DirectGouv, to increase transparency and communication to the press community and thus, to citizens-at-large.

Gov 2.0 and the Digital Divide

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For a little thought-provoking scholarship for your weekend, look at govfresh’s post on government 2.0 and the digital divide.  Kevin Curry looks into our continued usage of electronic means of government, and the issues that causes when many of our citizens do not have broadband internet.

Do you have any thoughts on the digital divide?  Are you avoiding government 2.0 because of citizens without computer access?

Twitter Case Study of USGS

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Twitter recently posted a case study of the U.S. Geological Survey’s use of Twitter for earthquake detection (which we recently covered here).  The brief description:

One of the U.S. Geological Survey’s unique responsibilities is the monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, which affect the daily lives of people around the world. By mining real-time tweets, the USGS expands its suite of seismically derived information and obtains first-hand accounts of shaking seconds after an earthquake occurs.

Drupal for Building Gov 2.0 Sites

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GovFresh has a great article on the usefulness of the open source Drupal content management system in creating transparency and government 2.0 websites.

Don’t forget to look at our Goverments Using Open Source CMS for many examples of sites built with Drupal (and other open source solutions).

Smart Phones Helping Us Serve Citizens

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Along the same lines as yesterday’s tweet from the Newark Mayor, today we have a great article in Governing from the former Mayor of Indianapolis.  Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Innovations in American Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, writes about how “smart phones are revolutionizing how governments serve its citizens — and it’s just the tip of the iceberg.”  The article is titled, “Phone + GPS + Camera = Revolution“.  This is a very good read.

PS- You can follow Stephen Goldsmith on Twitter, he’s @S_Goldsmith.

Newark Mayor Improves City Through Twitter

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker tweeted this earlier today:

I’m on it: Thanks RT @pb83 Mayor there’s a MONSTER pothole at Munn & 18th Ave. Sumbody’s gonna lose a piece of there car.

The original tweet from the Newark resident was:

@CoryBooker not sure who 2 address this 2, but there’s a MONSTER pothole at Munn & 18th Ave. Sumbody’s gonna lose a piece of there car.

That’s service for you.