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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Civic Participation made too simple?

last updated 11 months ago, 1 Comment

It does seem barely possible that civic participation could be made too simple, but that thought certainly arose from a rather cool app I was just alerted to - http://2gov.org/ Basically if you tweet and include the tag @2gov, the app will send your tweet to your local representative. Currently, it seems to be being used mainly to say either that obama's healthcare reforms are great or that they suck. So to what extent will all those messages help anyone? Even rather more meaningful...

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Twitter for emergency evacuations

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

Mississippi to Twitter for Upcoming Hurricane Season  The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will use the social networking site Twitter to provide traffic information for evacuation routes during the upcoming hurricane season. MDOT has created separate Twitter feeds with route-specific traffic information for evacuees traveling on six different interstate highways. Evacuees will be able to receive real-time information via cell phone text messages regarding fuel ...

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UK Weather - Snow Problem for Twitter

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

Great example of the power of crowd-sourcing. Last Sunday someone had the idea of using twitter to gather data on where it was snowing in the UK. So people who twitter were asked to send a message of the following kind: #uksnow tw12 5, i.e. the hashtag uksnow followed by the first three elements of their postcode followed by the amount of snow on a scale from 0-10. And then someone made a video of the result! Impressive and another good illustration of how things are going. For me info see h...

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War and Web 2.0

last updated about 1 year ago, 4 Comments

Inevitably the tragic situation in Gaza is reflected in social media, but it is interesting to see the willingness of the Israeli Defence Forces to use both YouTube and Twitter to push their views. http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/12/31/war-20-the-idf-are-using-youtube-and-twitter/ I am sure there are also plenty of examples of facebook/twitter/youtube be used to make the opposing case as well.

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TwitterGov: many tools available

last updated 12 months ago, 2 Comments

Twitter is the new fast growing web 2.0 global phenomenon. It became a top 1,000 site that reaches over 1.9 million U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more educated, slightly more female than male, young adult audience. On his blog, Brian Solls, a Siicon Valley PR guru writes : “The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and per...

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The Power of Twitter

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

I have always been interested in but a little bit sceptical of Twitter. However, my resistance is being worn down! One member of this community - Meeta - has flagged up to me the use of Twitter in Mumbai during the recent terrible events where citizens used Twitter to arrange blood supplies, to arrange for lists of injured/dead, and to keep each other abreast of developments. On a more mundane level our most recent member Crispin arrived via seeing a tweet about the draft Govt 2.0 paper we p...

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Twitter Use By Government

last updated 9 months ago, 0 Comments

A discussion group of American government webmasters (mostly from local governments) have recently focused on Twitter.  Here are some of the more interesting observations: So, we had our first interesting Twitter situation today. Somebody signed up to follow our Twitter feed, and they replied to one of our news articles regarding speed patrols, commenting that there is speeding in her neighborhood. We have @replies turned off from showing up in our feed, but they're viewable on o...

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Two small cities using Twitter

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

One of the wonderful things about Web 2.0 technologies is that they do not cost much to use.  Here are examples of two relatively small American cities, which use Twitter: http://twitter.com/NapervilleIL (Naperville, Illinois) http://twitter.com/killeenweb (Killeen, Texas) Naperville is an affluent and somewhat high-tech suburb of Chicago with a great reputation, so their use of Web 2.0 is not all that surprising.  On the other hand, Killeen is almost the...

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