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Social Media and Gov 2.0 are Contact Sports

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alan W. Silberberg

Social media is a contact sport. No doubt about it. People get bashed all the time. One only needs to look at the public time lines of Twitter or Facebook to see that.

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So, What is Gov 2.0?

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Government, Government, Democracy, gov20, Gov 2.0, Politics, Bill Grundfest, Social Media, Andrea Baker, Opengov, Citizen 2.0, Alan W. Silberberg, Adriel Hampton, Government 2.0, Andrea Dimaio, Egov, Martin Bosworth, gov20la, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

People across the country are working to bring massive societal change to how we interact with our government.

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Troll Patrol - 5 Things You Can Do

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safety, Trolling, Personal Protection, Blogs, Twitter, Bing, Extortion, Brand Management, Common Sense, Facebook, Cyber Crimes, Internet, Social Media, Linkedin, Snopes, Espionage, Trolls, Google, Egov, gov30, Troll, gov20, Ogov, Opengov, Gov 2.0, Gov 3.0, gov20la, Bill Grundfest, Alan W. Silberberg, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

Trolling is a growing problem online and especially in social media spaces. It clogs up our email boxes, confuses the follower/following counts and throws monkey wrenches into people actively building engaged online communities. I have created my own types based on behavior I have seen.

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Video, People, Language Capture The Energy of Gov 2.0 LA

Alan W. Silberberg and Ralph J. Shapira | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Gov 2.0, Personal Democracy Forum, Politics, Christina Gagnier, Blogs, You2gov, gov20, Advocacy, Rock Creek SM, gov20la, Alan W. Silberberg, Content, Craig Newmark, Bill Grundfest, Los Angeles, California, Futuregov, Govfresh, Waveling, Opengov, Cory Ondrejka, Gov 2.0 LA, Alan Webber, Alex Howard, Wordpress, Flickr, Tv, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg and Ralph J. Shapira

One of the key themes in this past weekend's event was "Video is the New Text." Another is that the jargon and language used in Government 2.0 is holding us back.

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