Like many technological tools, Twitter does not come with an instruction manual. To help both government executives who must decide whether Twitter is a useful tool for their organizations and frontline managers who will create and administer the Twitter account, Ines Mergel has written this guide, detailing the benefits - and risks - of hosting a Twitter feed, as well as the specifics on how to maintain a Twitter feed to achieve optimum results.

In addition to the information about Twitter itself, this guide presents material about the expanding ecosystem that is growing up around Twitter. Applications like Klout, TweetDeck, HootSuite, and Instagram add new kinds of functionality and make Twitter feeds more valuable both to government and to citizens who subscribe to their feeds.

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Eric Quinn

I am currently working on establishing an internet-use policy for a municipality. How would I go about structuring a policy for the use of free-form sites such as Twitter or Facebook that could potentially reveal the inner workings of an organization, while encouraging government transparency?

05/24/2012 - 14:50

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