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.

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

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.

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.