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How Has Twitter Positively Impacted You or Your Agency?

Post Date December 07, 2012

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Author GovLoop

We all have a Twitter story.

Some spontaneous interaction or great information from Twitter that helped solve a problem.

Maybe you reached a great reporter you were never able to see before.
Maybe you interacted with a new target audience you were never able to reach
Maybe a citizen solved a problem based on your agency tweet
Maybe Cory Booker RTed you or Tim O’Reilly followed you
Maybe you met someone on Twitter from the #gov20 hashtag that is now a friend

Share your story below

40+ Government Folks to Follow on Twitter

Post Date December 04, 2012

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Author admin

Category Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Twitter

Recently, a friend asked me: “Where do I get started for Twitter and government? Do you have any recommendation for top people to follow?

I pointed him to my Twitter list – GovLoop Rockstars – but then I realized that I have 385 people in that list and it’s getting a little overwhelming.

So I thought I’d make a list of my Top 25 #gov20 folks I follow on Twitter in no particular order (sorry for folks I may have missed – share in the comments):

1) @digiphile …

GovTwit releases data set for 4,500 tagged IDs

Post Date May 31, 2012

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Directory, Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Local Government, Open Government, Press, State Government, Twitter

All data from the 4,500 government Twitter IDs listed in the GovTwit directory are now available to download and use.

The State of the Union goes social

Post Date January 27, 2012

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Facebook, Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Twitter, Video

The president’s election-year State of the Union messaging strategy this week has included increased use of social media channels in an attempt to reach audiences in a different way and extend the conversation beyond a single day news cycle.

Twitter launches @Gov to provide updates from its government and politics team

Post Date December 08, 2011

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Open Government, State Government, Twitter

Twitter launches @Gov – a new account to track creative and effective uses of Twitter for civic engagement.

NASA highlighted in video touting major Twitter redesign

Post Date December 08, 2011

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Gov 2.0, Twitter

Twitter has launched a major redesign today, including upgrades to brand profile pages, and NASA astronaut Ron Garan is prominently featured in a new video touting the changes.

The gov 2.0 time machine: back to the big bang

Post Date December 06, 2011

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Open Government, Twitter

Take a trip back in time and view an archive of 5,533 tweets about 2009’s Gov 2.0 Camp, one of the first “unconferences” held in Washington, D.C.

Google launches Google+ guide for politics and government

Post Date November 21, 2011

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Author Steve Lunceford

Category Facebook, Federal Government, Gov 2.0, Local Government, State Government, Twitter

Hot on the heels of launching Google+ Pages, Google has released a “how-to” guide for G+ aimed at increasing use of the new social platform by those in politics and government. Facebook also has a guide for government and politicians, but Twitter is strangely absent in creating a similar online resource.