The Top 6 Government Social Networks

Exceptional social networks listed in this OhMyGov article include The Federal Contractor Network, Our Border, GovCentral, ExchangesConnect, Govloop and Military.com.  From my review of this list four of the six appear to be built on the Ning social networking platform....

The Story of Mister Splashy Pants

Interesting TED talk from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian explaining how Greenpeace’s Mister Splashy Pants became an online phenomenon.

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Organic Versus Inorganic Twitter Followers

Anil Dash has a great blog post up today entitled “Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers.”  Dash was added to the Twitter suggested followers list in October, and as a result saw his number of followers jump from 18,000 to 300,000.  Even though Dash’s number of followers increased dramatically, the number of interactions he was having did not go up. ...

Did the RNC Launch a URL Shortener?

Yesterday on Twitter I started seeing links pop up to what looked to be a URL shortening service run by the Republican National Committee – www.gop.am.  The site has “gop” in the URL and has branding consistent with the main RNC site – www.gop.com.  So it seemed reasonable to assume it was put out by the RNC. ...

Tim Ryan Launches First House Social Network for Constituents?

Congressmen Tim Ryan (D-OH) launched his own custom social network yesterday, using the Ning platform.  In and of itself, this isn’t particularly notable.  Lots of politicians have launched their own Ning networks.  However, in every case I know of the focus of the socnet has been on winning elections,...