The first full day of the Science Writers 2009 conference will be hard to top. I’m exhausted, but I feel like I am taking a lot of really excellent information away from the sessions I attended today.
Tag: Social media
Today I moved my blog to wordpress.com, so that it’s easier to update. With iWeb, you have to be on the computer where you created the site in order to update the blog. This isn’t exactly conducive to free flowing expression. So I’m using wordpress.com for the blog, and leaving the other pages on iWeb, with links between the two. With WordPress, I can even upload the blog from my iPhone, if the mood strikes.
Today, GovLoop, the ning-based social networking site for government communities, announced that is has been bought out by GovDelivery, a for-profit, government communications service provider.
Upon hearing this, I deleted my account, because it just feels a bit icky to talk about communications issues on a social network owned by a company trying to get business solving those issues.
Recently Twitter has been making efforts to clean up the system and get rid of spam accounts. While rather laudable, their method is not without challenges. Last week, during the Gov2.0 Summit downtown, several users who chose to live-tweet the event using the hash tag #gov20e found themselves on the wrong side of the twitter