Al Smith Social media in local government

Further reading (part deux)

Ah, the mistake I made yesterday was to predict the things that would be discussed in a meeting and tailor some of the follow-up links to match. I'll now add a few more based on what was discussed and just general interesting stuff.

Do councils need a Facebook presence? - Jack Pickard dissects the Facebook presence of Tyne and Wear's councils on Facebook. Jack hits the nail on the head when he describes why we made the decisions we made about Facebook (without me having to explain our actions).

Elections 2009 - No, not the European ones (although this site was quite interesting). Derbyshire County Council had their local elections and Sarah Lay blogged here and here about how they covered it online and became media dahlings.

Councillors on Twitter - There are two sites for this: Tweety Hall and Cllr Tweeps, both are a good starting point to see who's on there and what they're doing on there!

Social media news releases - It's the future, peoples! Have a look at this one.

Flipside - Northern Film + Media's flip camera consultation project.

I thought there was a blog post out there on how to use Google Reader as a Tesco Value Twitter monitoring tool. Can't really find one so will have to blog it myself!