Change we can believe in

Slide 2: January sees the Social-Media savy Obama team takes over.
Slide 9: March sees President Obama hold an Online Town Hall with questions selected through Digg style voting.
Slide 28: November sees President Obama tell an audience in China that he's never been on twitter.
Slide 29: November sees WhiteHouse.gov goes Drupal.

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December 13, 2009

Social Media in an Emergency

Cool video explaining how the Salt Lake Valley Health Department uses social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to communicate H1N1 information to citizens and media.

For more on their Web 2.0 outreach programme, check their Social Media Outreach page.

(via GovFresh)

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November 15, 2009

The book Social Media ROI: Socialnomics describes how social media transforms our lives and the way we do business. The accompanying video above book showcases several Social Media ROI examples along with other effective Social Media Strategies. The stats highlighted in the video are expanded upon in Erik Qualman's blog post about the video.

Another similar book on the subject of Social Media and Web 2.0 is Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom. It describes itself as the first comprehensive book written for a wide audience about the Web 2.0 social networking revolution. It examines the powerful forces driving this social e-revolution, describes the equally powerful reactions to it, and makes predictions about its far-reaching consequences.

I've read Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom and recommend it as an excellent examination of how Web 2.0 tenets are transforming our lives and working environments.

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September 19, 2009

Social media and the changing face of Journalism

Just came across a great post from Mercedes Bunz on How Social Networking is changing Journalism. The post is based on the Oxford Social Media Convention which took place earlier this September. I've reproduced some important points from the piece below:

Richard Sambrook, the director of the BBC Global News Division, said that the impact of social media was overestimated in the short term and underestimated in long term.

...Organisations don't own the news anymore. There is a transformation for the journalist from being the gatekeeper of information to sharing it in a public space.

Information is not journalism...You get a lot of things, when you open up Twitter in the morning, but not journalism. Journalism needs discipline, analysis, explanation and context, he pointed out, and therefore for him it is still a profession. The value that gets added with journalism is judgment, analysis and explanation - and that makes the difference.

The post also cites John Kelly, a columnist for the Washington Post, who recently published a report on the challenges and value of citizen journalism. At the conferenced he noted that the HuffingtonPost competes with the Washington Post not in terms of journalism, but in terms of its readers.

For more see John Kelly's report at Red Kayaks and Hidden Gold: the rise, challenges and value of citizen journalism.

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September 19, 2009