[2009-02-24] Connecting Government Officials With The Public
A tweet from @downingstreet, the Twitter handle of the communications team in the Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street, prompted me to check in at Number10.gov.uk at 11am this morning to witness a question-and-answer session with members of the Cabinet being streamed live over the web from the venue of the regional Cabinet meeting in Southampton.
[2009-02-09] Government Needs To Fully Embrace Social Media
Recently there has been some talk on a few other DC-based social media consultant blogs about the rise of "Government 2.0" and whether the so-called experts in the space really deserve that title. Yet for all this attention on expertise in social media (justified or not), those of us who at least work and provide advice in the space have not done as much as we need to offer the ammunition to the people who are really in a position to move government forward into using these tools. These are the web masters, communications managers, PR directors and other such people who are the voices waiting to be unleashed within government offices everywhere.