Social Government

I just wanted to write a quick note to let everyone know that we’re celebrating our first birthday.
While I have no special celebrations, toasts, cakes or melodramatic speeches planned, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported this site.
Special thanks goes out to our current contributors, Chris Golden and Nick Troiano [...]

Social Government returns!

Here’s an update on what’s going on right now and what’s going to happen with this blog.
Basically, I decided to take the summer off to focus on my personal career aspirations as a journalist. I work as an intern reporter for a mid-sized Gannett newspaper in New York. I’ve been having a blast, but the [...]

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been sort of quiet here lately.
In the coming weeks, I’ll be looking at Social Government from the ground up and will decide the best way forward.
Rest assured, we’re not gone.
Thanks for your understanding!
Ethan

After a long week of finals, I’m pleased to say that the blog is back in business.
Seems like we chose the wrong week to take off, since government got a lot more social since the last post here:

The White House started tweeting!
The White House, along with about 30 federal agencies (according to Time) also joined [...]

Sorry for the lack of activity lately. It’s been a busy two weeks! After Monday, I should be back in full posting force.
Stay tuned for a new Social Government Radio on Monday! Details forthcoming.
–Ethan

I’m writing to apologize and to set the record straight.
The post I wrote over the weekend on state election Web sites has caused a bit of controversy — I have received numerous e-mail inquiries from state officials who felt I ranked their states too low and officials who questioned the criteria I used to rank [...]

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