Comments on: Protest Organized On Twitter: Why PA Needs To Engage in SN http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/ Listen - Talk - Transform Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The problem with GOV transparency is that it’s not | Voluptuous Thinking http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/#comment-31 The problem with GOV transparency is that it’s not | Voluptuous Thinking Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:54:51 +0000 http://theblackvector.com/?p=139#comment-31 [...] another aside, a good friends and colleague remarked on his blog how recent activity in Moldova got organized via Twitter and how it proved … something … about [...] [...] another aside, a good friends and colleague remarked on his blog how recent activity in Moldova got organized via Twitter and how it proved … something … about [...]

]]> By: Keith Houin http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/#comment-16 Keith Houin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:34:49 +0000 http://theblackvector.com/?p=139#comment-16 Once again you have obviously put more thought into this than most of your contemporaries. The comments also reflect some truth but not absolutes. I personally like the military because of the opportunity to be innovative, and dislike the comfort level some (okay many) settle into. I am ready to raise the flags, sound the trumpets and send the troops into the masses of SN users, but see the hurdles and glass ceilings that have been mentioned in this post and previous posts and wonder if we wil ever get the real buy-in that is required to make it a success, before we are fighting the battle to be in the front lines of the net comunications innovation. Gone are the days where the government can wait to see how the tide rolls, and test bed an opportunity to death before implementing it. Somewhere we need a communications technology and application team acting instead of reacting. We need reps at every convention looking for the next potential hot spot to place our message. You touch on the unfortunate truths though that only senior government leaders can change. Until they actually embrace the transparency they claim to desire, we will trod forward slowly in the official capacity. Fortunately, we are the users right now, and within limits can act as the voice that is yet to be heard. Once again you have obviously put more thought into this than most of your contemporaries. The comments also reflect some truth but not absolutes. I personally like the military because of the opportunity to be innovative, and dislike the comfort level some (okay many) settle into.
I am ready to raise the flags, sound the trumpets and send the troops into the masses of SN users, but see the hurdles and glass ceilings that have been mentioned in this post and previous posts and wonder if we wil ever get the real buy-in that is required to make it a success, before we are fighting the battle to be in the front lines of the net comunications innovation.
Gone are the days where the government can wait to see how the tide rolls, and test bed an opportunity to death before implementing it. Somewhere we need a communications technology and application team acting instead of reacting. We need reps at every convention looking for the next potential hot spot to place our message.
You touch on the unfortunate truths though that only senior government leaders can change. Until they actually embrace the transparency they claim to desire, we will trod forward slowly in the official capacity.
Fortunately, we are the users right now, and within limits can act as the voice that is yet to be heard.

]]> By: Jenny Lovett http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/#comment-15 Jenny Lovett Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:27:22 +0000 http://theblackvector.com/?p=139#comment-15 The benefits far outweigh the operational security if you ask me. This is the information environment in which we work; we should embrace it or we'll fail miserably. The benefits far outweigh the operational security if you ask me. This is the information environment in which we work; we should embrace it or we’ll fail miserably.

]]> By: Matt Scherer http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/#comment-13 Matt Scherer Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:57:45 +0000 http://theblackvector.com/?p=139#comment-13 I really liked your post on this topic. It looks like the brass is finally getting the concept of Twitter and other things. The problem is that the government is not filled with early adapters. Most people like the military because it's safe and there is a routine to it. For example, the uniform. Military guys know what they have to wear to work every day. It's only when you leave the military that you have to face the decision of what to wear and how long you'll grow you hair. Please keep at it, but know that most will not get it. Sadly, the use of Twitter is a good communications vehicle for disasters. For example, the amazing Hudson River rescue saw the deployment of Twitter as a crisis communications tool. I really liked your post on this topic. It looks like the brass is finally getting the concept of Twitter and other things.

The problem is that the government is not filled with early adapters. Most people like the military because it’s safe and there is a routine to it. For example, the uniform. Military guys know what they have to wear to work every day. It’s only when you leave the military that you have to face the decision of what to wear and how long you’ll grow you hair.

Please keep at it, but know that most will not get it. Sadly, the use of Twitter is a good communications vehicle for disasters. For example, the amazing Hudson River rescue saw the deployment of Twitter as a crisis communications tool.

]]> By: Justin Herman http://theblackvector.com/2009/04/09/protest-organized-on-twitter-why-pa-needs-to-engage-in-sn/#comment-12 Justin Herman Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:33:53 +0000 http://theblackvector.com/?p=139#comment-12 You raise some good points, foremost for me being how can PA's successfully respond to the modern operating environment when they continue to have limited access to that very environment. It's a frustrating joke. Though I don't see any benefit for anyone with the appearance of Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Twitter (@thejointstaff). They use it to spit out press releases, there's no interaction, no personality - and as a result, no credibility. People will follow it for the "Gee Whiz" factor, but people can see right through it for what it is. He should have thought out better a strategy for using Twitter before some one put it up there under the assumption that any Twittering is better than no Twittering at all. You raise some good points, foremost for me being how can PA’s successfully respond to the modern operating environment when they continue to have limited access to that very environment. It’s a frustrating joke.

Though I don’t see any benefit for anyone with the appearance of Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Twitter (@thejointstaff). They use it to spit out press releases, there’s no interaction, no personality – and as a result, no credibility. People will follow it for the “Gee Whiz” factor, but people can see right through it for what it is. He should have thought out better a strategy for using Twitter before some one put it up there under the assumption that any Twittering is better than no Twittering at all.

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