gov2.0
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Twitter hands over Occupy protester's tweets | Internet & Media
Twitter caved to a court order and handed over the tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester rather than face a stiff fine.
How Cops Use Social Media, SMS to Fight Crime
A limited study of 50 convicted burglars in the U.K. reveals what most of us knew already: if you tweet or post a Facebook status about your vacation in Cancun, a criminal in your hometown may target your house for a break-in. He or she may even use Google Street View to case the joint. But law enforcement is fighting back, solving crimes using the same social media that makes it easy for people to become victims. The Boston Globe reports in today's editions that the Boston Police Department has had "amazing" results with its use of social media and its Text-A-Tip campaigns. One of the biggest lessons for cops on social media? Try not to sound like cops.
Social media use by universities has become ubiquitous.
7 Ways Universities Are Using Facebook as a Marketing Tool
Over the past several years, the US Army has developed an exemplary program in exploiting numerous social media methods, and done so without a lot of flash, expense, or personnel. They have an engaged audience, numerous followers, and maintained a multi-pronged campaign into all of the major social media networks, including recent beach-heads in Pinterest and Google+. All this, and with a five-person team based in the Pentagon and without spending much in the way of budget too. They are a worthy case study for organizations that are trying to make their own assaults on social media and haven't been as effective. Just look at this slide showing the numbers.
Hoo-ah: How the US Army Has Become a Social Media Leader
A few years back, Facebook was just a procrastination tool where people would spend their whole days logged in and buying friends on Friends for Sale. Not that it’s much different from today, but if you wanted to open a social media agency specialized in fan page management back then, people would say that you’ve lost your mind. Especially in Croatia.
Croatia’s iSTUDIO wants to revolutionize the way we monitor social media
President Obama has appointed Todd Park as the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) on Friday. Park previously served a three-year tenure as the CTO for the U.S.
U.S. Appoints New Chief Technology Officer
The United Nations is a huge organization: 193 member states and six major organs.
How To Unite Nations With Social Media
Sweden Lets Citizens Run Its Twitter account
With Twitter now a well-established as part of the Internet landscape, it’s increasingly difficult to make a splash with a truly innovative marketing campaign using the service. The country of Sweden may have managed that with a new project that sees a different citizen take over its official Twitter account every week. “No one owns the brand of Sweden more than its people.
Municipal Wi-Fi: Let them browse while they eat cake
SINCE Wi-Fi's birth over a decade ago in a forgotten corner of the radio spectrum many municipalities have tried to create city-wide networks for public use.Two-thirds (67%) of adult social media users in the U.S. voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race, although only half (51%) would vote the same way if they knew what they know now. Market researcher Lab42 polled 500 social media users on all things politics. The findings, presented in the infographic below, reveal top issues, candidates and news sources for social media users.
What Social Media Users Think of U.S. Politics
During the last presidential election, the use of social media in political campaigns was revolutionized.
How Political Campaigns Can Turn Social Media Support Into Votes
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has a crack group of analysts tracking the Internet, including tweets and Facebook messages, that takes the pulse of the world. Located in McLean, Virginia analysts at the CIA Open Source Center are known as the "vengeful librarians" according to a report from the Associated Press .
The CIA Open Source Center Tracks the Pulse of the World Through Facebook & Twitter
Social Media: The Three Big Myths
Today, Facebook has more than half a billion active users; Twitter users send more than 140 million tweets per day; and other social media outlets boast millions more logging in every day.Can Facebook lower unemployment
Facebook executive Marne Levine announces the company's partnership with the Labor Department Thursday: A Facebook page will aggregate job information and sites. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images f Facebook has its way, millions of Americans may soon be updating the employment section of their profiles.How digital media will affect the 2012 Presidential Election (infographic)
The debates are rolling out and rumbles of the 2012 Presidential Election are growing into much bigger conversations. But where are those conversations occurring?Open Government on Vimeo
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ by Feb 11
the effect of open data on governments by Feb 11