FollowYourGov » youtube http://followyourgov.com Social Media and New Technology for Government and Public Administrators Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:18:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Creating a YouTube Channel http://followyourgov.com/2010/05/04/creating-a-youtube-channel/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/05/04/creating-a-youtube-channel/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 10:09:59 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=555 Does your organization utilize YouTube or online video?  You will be interested in creating a branded channel on YouTube.

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A very good read.

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2010/04/05/bringing-attention-to-open-government/feed/ 2 How Santa Clarita Uses Social Media http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/06/how-the-city-of-santa-clarita-uses-socia/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/06/how-the-city-of-santa-clarita-uses-socia/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:03:08 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/06/how-the-city-of-santa-clarita-uses-socia/ 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.”

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]]> http://followyourgov.com/2009/12/08/survey-results-on-gov-social-media/feed/ 0 Solving Budget Crisis with Social Media http://followyourgov.com/2009/11/15/solving-budget-crisis-with-social-media/ http://followyourgov.com/2009/11/15/solving-budget-crisis-with-social-media/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:10 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=171 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.

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]]> http://followyourgov.com/2009/10/15/barriers-to-government-2-0/feed/ 0 More Local Governments Using Web 2.0 http://followyourgov.com/2009/10/05/more-local-governments-using-web-2-0/ http://followyourgov.com/2009/10/05/more-local-governments-using-web-2-0/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:18:08 +0000 Chris http://socialgovt.com/?p=38 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.

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2009/10/05/more-local-governments-using-web-2-0/feed/ 0 City of Lancaster Realizes Importance of Good Website and Social Networking http://followyourgov.com/2009/09/29/city-of-lancaster-realizes-importance-of-good-website-and-social-networking/ http://followyourgov.com/2009/09/29/city-of-lancaster-realizes-importance-of-good-website-and-social-networking/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:25:19 +0000 Chris http://socialgovt.com/?p=9 City of Lancaster realizes importance of good website and social networking.  Lancaster’s site, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube channel.

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