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UK Government’s guide to using Twitter

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Is Big Brother following you? Government’s guide to using Twitter

Even its author admits that a 20-page strategy paper for government departments on how to use Twitter might be regarded as “a bit of over the top” for a microblogging tool with a limit of 140 characters a message.

Indeed, the 5,382-word official “template”,which translates into 36,215 characters and spaces, would need roughly 259 separate tweets to put the word around Whitehall using Twitter.

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Public CIOs on Twitter (US)

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Public CIOs on Twitter

“With ‘C’ in your title, you are more closely tied to your organization than a general employee, so you have a greater responsibility to represent your organization well,” said Catlett. “In general I ask myself how my tweet would sound in a newspaper article. I also want to offer my expertise or judgment, to those who care to follow, to make the social networks more useful to others.”

“When I first started using Twitter, I would say it was just a science project,” Cureton said. “I wanted to experiment with Web 2.0 technologies and understand the value and how it worked firsthand. But, after a while, I developed some valuable professional contacts. It gives me a broader reach than I would normally get here in Washington, D.C., just around the Beltway,” she said.

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State Department comments on ‘talks’ with Twitter

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State Department comments on ‘talks’ with Twitter

“I think, as I was following this, these developments over the weekend…I began to recognize the importance of new social media as a vital tool for citizens’ empowerment and as a way for people to get their messages out,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday, according to a transcript of the department’s daily press briefing (which was not held specifically to address the Twitter question). “And it was very clear to me that these kinds of social media played a very important role in democracy, spreading the word about what was going on.”

A State Department press briefing gives some insight into why the U.S. government requested that Twitter postpone a scheduled downtime during a crucial period in the post-election upheaval in Iran.

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US Army allows social media

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Army allows social media — warily

The ability to easily share information through social-media tools is the power of the emerging technology — and also the threat.

The Army is one organization that has approached the tools with caution. And until May, it banned them from Army bases and campuses because of concerns about users having the power to say what they want, post the pictures they want and connect with whom they want using Web 2.0 tools. But a May 18 order from the 93rd and 106th Signal Brigades orders Army bases and campuses in the continental United States to provide access to five social-media sites.

Despite the security risks, Army officials are under a lot of pressure to allow social media because so many people depend on it as the primary way to stay in touch with friends and family, Reis said.

The Army and other federal agencies considering similar policies should include education as part of allowing access to social media, she said.

“It is about getting users to understand the ramifications of posting certain personal information, whether that is location or activities that could be harmful in a military sense,” Reis said. “If agencies do not provide appropriate information to users about taking responsibility for their own posts, then that is an incomplete policy.”

The May order limits the allowed sites to Facebook, del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and Vimeo.

Read more at fcw.com