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4 Characteristics of a Winning Social Enterprise Strategy
Bill Kalma is VP of technical services at Model Metrics, an enterprise cloud computing services company. He focuses on the effective scoping, management and delivery of CRM projects from a technical perspective. What is the social enterprise? Traditionally, the term has referred to an organization’s social mission of philanthropy, charity or furthering a noble cause.
Dave Cole has done something that was crying out to be done. He has taken all of the ( hard to find ) RSS feeds for government press releases from COI’s News Distribution Service and piped them into Twitter accounts . Nice. To my mind though there’s no substitute for a proper, human-edited Twitter account and so I thought I’d share this list of official gov accounts which I’ve compiled fairly recently. Let me know any I’ve missed. It’s likely there will be lots of crossover between Dave’s NDS-fuelled feeds and these civil servant powered accounts, so choose wisely which to follow.
The UK government on Twitter
The US Government Catches The Twitter Bug, And Amazingly, Does It Well - Business Insider
@TSABlogTeam - The Transportation Security Administration, which operates the widely-hated system of airport security checkpoints, links to a series of surprisingly thoughtful articles about its mission. @HomelandSecurit - Department of Homeland Security. Tweets the national threat level ("yellow.") Both the color codes and this twitter should be abandoned. @SenateFloor (and @HouseFloor ) - US Senate/House actions.Twitter In Government Agencies: Best Practices | Social Government
With Twitter being all the rage lately, there are bound to be questions about how the popular microblogging tool should be deployed in government. Some agencies fully embrace Twitter, giving the intimidation of government a human face. Use Twitter as a point of customer service. While most government Twitter accounts are happy to respond to user’s inquiries, they should do something that @washingtonpost does every Friday: ask “what do you want to know?” This is a great way for agencies to interact with their constituents.