Tag: Twitter
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Growth, Good and Bad
Guest Post Elon Musk isn’t the only one growing interest in a social media platform with a free-for-all, anything goes strategy. Rumble is a video licensing and sharing platform similar to YouTube but with fewer restrictions for content creators and marketed as a politically “neutral” platform. The site was launched in 2013 but has gotten
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SF Architecture, Landscape, Weather Brought to Life on Twitter
Twitter has long been a place where fictional characters – from Darth Vader to strange turns on comic book heroes to the characters from the space opera Firefly – have found life. Now, in a move to warm a tourism board’s heart, some of the most iconic features of San Francisco are also animated on
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Fall Speaking Schedule
My fall schedule is quite busy, and I’m looking forward to meet many of my social media friends at several upcoming speaking engagements. So you’ll know where to find me: Citizen 2.0 Workshop – Sunday, Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m., Fairfield, CA – I’ll be leading a session on social media for progressive activists and campaign
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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – June 17, 2010
Hot links for June 17, 2010 – BP, Facebook, Twitter, GovLoop Next Gen Summit.
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It’s About the Network, and Other Notes on Twitter, Business and Gov 2.0
Most of what I’m doing on Twitter on a daily basis is working to build community. I’ve also got several other places where I’m doing similar things, but Twitter is definitely the largest pool where I reach out to new people to grow my personal network and evangelize a vision for government reform through social
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A Beltway Insider or an Innovator for Twitter in DC?
There’s been a lot of reading between the lines of Twitter’s job posting for a DC-based government liaison (and even one instance of actual follow-up reporting). One post really caught my attention – because I disagree with it so vehemently. My friend Alan W. Silberberg, a Gov 2.0 innovator and founding organizer of Gov 2.0
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#TwitGov: Fresh Links!
A very interesting day of buzz over the new Twitter governmental liaison position, with everything from Act.ly petitions to a sort of Microsoft-O’Reilly Media-Twitter Gov 2.0 debate on Mark Drapeau’s blog. @Twitter opened on Monday the with a job post: http://bit.ly/twitgov … Track the #twitgov search … … Cue Wednesday: Mark Drapeau (one of Microsoft’s
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Government Social Media: If You Don’t Want to Engage, Don’t Bother
There has been an unquestionable explosion of government social media use in the last year. Last week, GovTwit, the Twitter directory of government agencies and officials reported 44.9 million followers for the 3,000 IDs it tracks, after starting in 2009 with just a handful of accounts. Still, towns, agencies and leaders not using social media
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A Jilted Lover: My Evolving Feelings Towards Facebook
While I was becoming more and more enamored with Facebook, its plans had less and less to do with me.
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Five Tips for Blog Posts that Pop on Twitter
For niche and fledgling bloggers, it can be quite intimidating to see public stats around some of the big dogs of the blogging world. “There go another 482 retweets for Chris Brogan’s latest post!” you might think, with more than hint of envy. In this post, I want to examine a few ways to get