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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.

Bringing Attention to Open Government

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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

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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.”