We've been looking at different Web 2.0 sites and exploring how best clients can use them in conjunction with our system and on their own.
One site I like is Twitter. Twitter allows an organization or an individual to post a couple of lines about what they are doing at a given moment. This overlaps with the Facebook "status" update so I thought it wouldn't be worth the effort. However, now that I've got Twitter working well with Facebook, I can update my status on Twitter and it gets posted everywhere. Twitter is easier to use and something that can be updated quickly from a cell phone or blackberry.
I don't have any specific ideas yet for interconnections between GovDelivery and Twitter, but in looking around, I did see a lot of Twitter accounts being managed by government agencies and public officials. Take a look at the GovDelivery Twitter Account and Who We are Following. You can also take a look at my "young" Twitter account.
Here are just a few:
http://twitter.com/pueblo81009
http://twitter.com/USAgov
NASA has many offices and programs using Twitter. As usual, they are very advanced in use of Web 2.0 tools.
and lots of public officials:
http://twitter.com/MayorMark
http://twitter.com/MayorRTRybak
Why does this matter? Any government entity has a lot of information to offer. Twitter is an easy way to pull forward and call attention to the information that you think might be most interesting or valuable. I've blogged before on the difference between "give me what I want" content and "give me what you think I need" content.
Twitter allows an agency to highlight for me the information that I might need and to do it in a simple and interesting way.
One site I like is Twitter. Twitter allows an organization or an individual to post a couple of lines about what they are doing at a given moment. This overlaps with the Facebook "status" update so I thought it wouldn't be worth the effort. However, now that I've got Twitter working well with Facebook, I can update my status on Twitter and it gets posted everywhere. Twitter is easier to use and something that can be updated quickly from a cell phone or blackberry.
I don't have any specific ideas yet for interconnections between GovDelivery and Twitter, but in looking around, I did see a lot of Twitter accounts being managed by government agencies and public officials. Take a look at the GovDelivery Twitter Account and Who We are Following. You can also take a look at my "young" Twitter account.
Here are just a few:
http://twitter.com/pueblo81009
http://twitter.com/USAgov
NASA has many offices and programs using Twitter. As usual, they are very advanced in use of Web 2.0 tools.
and lots of public officials:
http://twitter.com/MayorMark
http://twitter.com/MayorRTRybak
Why does this matter? Any government entity has a lot of information to offer. Twitter is an easy way to pull forward and call attention to the information that you think might be most interesting or valuable. I've blogged before on the difference between "give me what I want" content and "give me what you think I need" content.
Twitter allows an agency to highlight for me the information that I might need and to do it in a simple and interesting way.
