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NASA’s Neat Social Media Ventures

Chris — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:23:27 +0000

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.

Creating a YouTube Channel

Chris — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:09:59 +0000

Does your organization utilize YouTube or online video? You will be interested in creating a branded channel on YouTube.

Bringing Attention to Open Government

Chris — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:01:10 +0000

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

Chris — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:03:08 +0000

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.”

Survey Results on Gov Social Media

Chris — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:08:51 +0000

Results from a survey on how governments are using social media.

Solving Budget Crisis with Social Media

Chris — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:10 +0000

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

Chris — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:45:06 +0000

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

Chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:18:08 +0000

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.

City of Lancaster Realizes Importance of Good Website and Social Networking

Chris — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:25:19 +0000

City of Lancaster realizes importance of good website and social networking. Lancaster’s site, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube channel.