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Social Media for Elected Officials

August 3rd, 2009

Saturday I got to do a presentation for a group of local elected officials at the DC-area Council of Governments retreat, and plenty of good questions and concerns came up during the discussion. I’ve gathered some articles below that expand on the points we covered during the session, and obviously anyone should feel free to contact me with any direct questions. Thanks go out to Merni Fitzgerald (a social media guru working for the Fairfax County, Virginia government) and to Steve Ressler (GovLoop.org) for their excellent work on our panel, which was moderated by DC At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown.

Presentation

• Social Media for Elected Officials (originally a Powerpoint doc, here a PDF)

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– cpd

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