Training: The Government & Social Media
The United States Government seems to change their limitations for employees accessing social media on a daily basis- well we do know that the Government has a tendency to change policies regularly, so how does this apply to social media today? While the “loosening of the social media belt” is taking place across the board, certain government organizations are finding it easier to do their jobs because of this. More government organizations are embracing social media, allowing collaboration and sense of community to flourish between employees (and We the People). A recent survey entitled “Social Networking in Government: Opportunities & Challenges” reports that 66 percent of all government agencies are currently using some type of social networking, varying from blogs to Facebook, Twitter, message boards and all the other social networking type of applications. GovLoop is just one such example of a social media platform specifically tailored for the government employee to connect and share information. While the current membership is just approximately 20,000 it is a growing community that is specialized to one target sector. Does this mean that we may see more tailored communities like this to develop in the future?
