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Twitter etiquette for corporates

It's been amazing to watch news of Downing Street's new Twitter account spreading round the planet. Reaction on blogs and Twitter itself has been a combination of 'awesome!', 'boring!' and 'validates Twitter as a proper comms channel'. But it poses an interesting question. Should a corporate channel like /downingstreet be following other people, or is it [...] read on »

‘Gov 2.0′ in US presidential campaigning

I'm grateful to Jeff Jarvis for a detailed post on 'government 2.0' (although it isn't a term he used, nor should he have). He points to two recent proposals from the Democrat candidates for the US presidency. I hadn't heard Hillary Clinton's suggestion, back in January, that government should actually be required to blog: I want to [...] read on »