Better Government Through Facebook

InsideFacebook.com has posted a useful article on “10 Ways Facebook Pages Can Help Local Governments Better Serve Their Constituents.”

As local governments let go of their reluctance to embrace social media and begin adopting this useful new tools, guidelines like these help local agencies get the most benefit from tools like Facebook.

As the article puts it:

Facebook pages can be used in all sorts of ways — it really depends on what the local government’s overall goals are. The first 6 tips deal with more general issues, the second section of 4 tips provides more details on what sort of information to share on your page.

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Out with the old, in with the new. Such is the nature of life, especially in the world of communications. Besides giving Pacific Strategies a bright, attractive new web presence, re-designing our website was first-hand refresher course in the democratization of Internet communication. In the not too distant past, deploying a new company website necessitated hiring a development firm and could entail a not insubstantial investment of resources. Today, an army of independent developers using open source applications like WordPress are churning out hundreds of inexpensive templates in a variety of designs and styles, that can be quickly adapted to an organization’s use.

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