Author: adrielhampton
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Why and How: Local Twitter Lists
If you don’t live in a metro area, social media community building can be daunting. Last year, I organized a charity tweetup in my medium-sized town and thought that at least several Twitter contacts were confirmed. It turned out as a small crowd of me and my best pal from up the street. Now, there…
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Twitter Lists: Thinking Like a Spammer
So I’m loving Twitter lists. I’ve already written here about their potential as a discovery engine for new people to follow, and about how I like the crowdsourcing of tags to describe other users (and how you learn about yourself from the tags others put on you.) Blogging and exploring today, I’ve been thinking about…
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Representative Gov 2.0 & the Identity Crisis
What do you thing the greatest barriers are to elected officials and constituents interacting through social media? The barriers atop my list are identity and representation. Why would officials expose themselves to the open Web if they rep a specific, local constituency? And how are they to sort through all the noise? If you believe…
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Twitter Lists No Substitute for Community
While everybody’s still writing about Twitter Lists, I’ve got another thought that’s simply too long for a tweet. The A-list talk is about status. That’s cool. Personally, I like lists as a way to discover new recommendations in communities of interest, and also as a way to quickly tune into those communities. Creating and following…
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Upcoming on Gov 2.0 Radio | 9 p.m. EST Sundays
November 1 – Brian Drake and Stephen Buckley | Fix It?We discuss what’s working and what’s not in government with retired career fed Stephen Buckley and collaboration consultant Brian Drake. Drake is planning the Government 2.0 #FAIL workshop, while Buckley, who in the ’90s managed a 1,000 member “Reinventing Government” listserv, is working on an…
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Are You Tuned in to Gov 2.0 Radio?
Back in my days as a City Hall reporter, one of my very favorite things to do was the Comcast Citydesk Newshour show on local cable. Once a week, I’d get to chat live about politics and City Hall with some of The City’s top reporters, editorial writers and columnists. I was always rushing down…
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