Creating a YouTube Channel
Does your organization utilize YouTube or online video? You will be interested in creating a branded channel on YouTube.
Bringing Attention to Open Government
govfresh has another good article, this time by Luke Fretwell. He lists 10 ways we can bring more attention to our open government and government 2.0 initiatives, including blogging, leveraging social video sites, guestposting on major news sites (like Mayor Newsom on TechCrunch), and simplifying our message.
A very good read.
How Santa Clarita Uses Social Media
How the City of Santa Clarita Uses Social Media. And on the future of social media use in Santa Clarita:
In early 2010, the City will expand the business utility of social networking for our residents by adding a Twitter component to our CRM application, referred to in Santa Clarita as “eService.”
Solving Budget Crisis with Social Media
Great speaker at the Gov 2.0 Summit from the City of Santa Cruz on solving the budget crisis with social media:
Like many local governments, the City of Santa Cruz used technology from UserVoice.
Barriers to Government 2.0
The White House is dealing with several issues relating to government usage of social networks and “government 2.0″.
More Local Governments Using Web 2.0
National Association of Counties: More local governments using web 2.0. Uses include RSS feeds, Twitter (to push news to citizens), Facebook, YouTube, blogs (external and internal), wikis, and others.