My big three channels are now Twitter , LinkedIn and my Blog. needed an effective mobile way to manage the numerous government and client department back-channel Twitter conversations that I had set-up on my laptop using Tweetdeck. research in motion RIM Rogers service canada smartphone storm storm 2 storm II telus twitter

Friend and colleague Jeffrey Levy , in conversation the other day, said he went back to the beginning… of his days on Twitter that is, to see who he first started following. It caused me to reflect on my own Twitter activity. Therefore, without further ado, my first Twitter 10: (take-aways listed afterwards).

Over the holidays I took some time off to re-charge and prepare for what looks like a very promising year for the field of marketing in the digital space, especially for all of you in the public sector. thought I’d quickly summarize a few of my predictions, comments and hopes that I have for 2010. Death [.]. wikis

Social media is a perfect marriage for public sector and non-profit initiatives; Nobody is trying to sell you anything. Twitter and microblogging in general. All you Twitter deniers out there should at the very least be “listening in&# through filtering tools such as Twitter Search. twitter

happened to see a comment on Twitter that led me to a blog post by John Johansen titled Engagement = Ingagement + Outgagement. That would include your website, blog, Twitter activity, emails, advertisements, etc. Mike Kujawski gives some ideas on how to measure return on investment from your public sector/nonprofit online activities.

Public access to government figures is certain to release economic value and encourage entrepreneurship. The web project We Feel Fin e by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, captured every instance of the words “feel&# ; or “feeling&# ; on Twitter, and matched it to time, location, age, sex and even the weather.

This is usually the time that I take a deep breath… Forgetting the fact that news of declining newspaper readership is all over newspapers themselves, I begin to wonder at moments like this if certain communications people have ever read a single magazine/publication/journal/article/blog from their industry. So what? Need an example?

Today, I was skimming through my RSS feeds and one of my favorites had an update: Mike Kujawski’s Public Sector 2.0 For example, I tease that in 10 years, we will be doing public health campaigns for internet addiction…but how far away is that really? Us Now Movie Trailer Preview. It’s not about the tools (i.e.

Quantcast Analytics is a very useful, publicly accessible analytics site. How social media can be used to demystify public service institutions to encourage civic engagement -  Jairus Pryor (Bank of Canada) and Audra Williams (Parliament of Canada). This is more than enough to eat up all of my time.  Monitoring 101: What did they do?

Ways to do that include: 1) follow a few good tech/news blogs like The Next Web , ReadWriteWeb , and Google’s public sector blog. 3) find and follow bloggers who specialize in popular social media channels, like John Haydon who covers the latest developments on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter as they relate to nonprofits.