by Chase on September 21, 2010
April Edmonds, a Web technology analyst for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has put together a social media toolkit to help government agencies understand how to effectively use social media. This iToolkit has specific information to Florida but any government entity is welcome to use any of the resources provided. This iToolKit is provided to you [...]
by Chase on September 17, 2010
There is a TON of interest in archiving Social Media for compliance. I’ve run into a few posts recently about government concerns at DigitalCommunities.com here and here. Here’s some of the poignant quotes: As more agency employees use Twitter, Facebook and similar external sites, some state and local IT officials are asking if those communications [...]
by Chase on September 15, 2010
The National Archiving and Records Association (NARA) recently announced that federal agencies probably do not need to archive social media records. But this comes as a surprise given the following quotes from the number one guy at NARA, the 10th archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero:
