A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning:
Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice , the developer of the local government search engine and as the one-time author of a blog about using this stuff in local gov.
I actually think there are tremendous opportunities here, possibly more so than in central government, because at the local level, there is already a connection between the people and the government organisation, even if it is just through the collection of council tax, or the picking up of refuse. Local government doesn’t necessarily need to develop common ground with the people it serves, because the locality already act as a common denominator. Councils have a real opportunity to help develop the use of social media in a grographical area, to take a le...
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Post Date: 2008-02-24 01:56:35
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