360DigitalInfluence

Last night the Ogilvy 360 Degree Digital Influence team hosted the October meeting of the Social Media Club of D.C.  The focus of this month’s meeting was Social Media and Government, and we heard insights from four insiders who are participating in social media for or on behalf of government agencies.

We’ve uploaded photos from last night’s event to the Ogilvy Flickr gallery, and will be sharing video interviews and an in-depth summary of the discussion from last night’s event here on the 360 Digital Influence blog. In the mean time, there were many people tweeting from the event - so we wanted to share several interesting posts from last night:

@wamurray: Putting a human face on gov’t is a real key benefit to social media (HHS secretary blog, USA.gov blog)

@wamurray: #SMCDC Miguel Gomez from AIDS.gov spoke about repurposing content (blogs,podcasts); something we’re doing in our social media work w/clients

@creativeblogs: excellent presentation last night at #SMCDC @aidsgov.

@ssoper: RL meets dead tree. saw a presentation at #smcdc last night that mentioned lafd using twitter then read about it in wired today

@ctorgan: Pew resource cited at #smcdc http://www.pewinternet.org/ podcast use (19%) vs mobile access (62%) Demographics v relevant

@mamadouthiam: #smcdc great to see other .gov people take the time and make the effort to improve their agencies (on their own time)!

@digitalsista: facebook is not 508 compliance. if u build the model 2 be compliant in the 1st pl they is 0 cost 2 chng

@JustinHerman: If the gov jumped on every shiny object every agency would have a friendster page - Mike Panetta

@bdgiesen: internal webinars to educate gov employees. Good way to train, make people comfortable w social media

@jacquebrown: They may not be 2.0 thought leaders but they are change agents - equally critical

@tanyachadha: Tracy Johnston of business.gov has some interesting points about getting smll biz owners involved w/ social media #smcdc

@willfleiss: Panetta’s Predictions in 2009: member of congress twittering from the house floor… Yes…congress can tweet…a law passed

@mixtmedia: “we can no longer afford to work at the speed of gov’t” Brian Humphrey from @LAFD via @mikepanetta #SMCDC

@abfdc: Secretary Leavitt’s pandemic flu blog didn’t bring HHS down, points out @jbell99 I created that with @beautifulthangs

@sarahmarchetti: In pre interview with miguel he said the role of a gov social media employee is train staff and respect where they’re at. No judgment

@ssoper: #smcdc govt + web 2.0 is happening quicker than you think

@mamadouthiam: #smcdc aids.gov speaker doing some very good work. Emphasize the importance of educating colleagues

@lyf108: #smcdc miguel gomez from aids.gov is a fabulous speaker

@JustinHerman: One of the biggest lessons: I have the obligation to train and educate my colleagues on blogging and podcasts - AIDS.gov

You can also find all of the SMCDC  Tweets on summize.com.