Category: Social Media

Once again, e.politics comes through with a great post on how state and local candidates can use the internet and social media to win elections.

The Post has information about a new University of Maryland study on members of Congress who use Twitter. Launched in 2006, Twitter allows users to send succinct (no more than 140 characters) reports on their comings, goings and musings. Sixty-nine members of Congress had Twitter accounts by February. The number has since risen to 169. […]

As I noted, I had the pleasure of attending CongressCamp, an “unconference” centered on “transforming citizen engagement with Congress through social media and collaboration tools.”   Before beginning to write my own inadequate summary of the weekend’s events, I was fortunate to discover ForumOne Communications Influence Blog.  In one post they capture the essence of many […]