April 29, 2013

Social media in public works 101 - Miscellaneous Tools

Most of the tools covered in this series have been around for several years and are now accepted as mainstream social media. But there are a couple new tools that we want to focus on in this post because they soon after their launch they gained a large user base and people are now wondering if they are worth using. Read more...

 
 
 
 
January 08, 2013

Social media in public works 101 - Blogging

Blogs, like many of the other social media tools, are often misunderstood and sometimes thought of as a negative form of communication. Yet by the end of 2011, NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey Company, reported tracking at least 173 million blogs worldwide and almost 20 million bloggers publishing to these sites. Read more...

 
 
December 05, 2012

Social Media for Public Works 101 — Video-sharing

Studies have shown that more than two-thirds of our population are visual learners, which probably helps explain why television and movies are so popular. This preference for consuming information in a visual format is also obvious from our online behavior. Read more...

 
 

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Pam Broviak

thumbnail image A former senior editor of PUBLIC WORKS, Pam Broviak publishes the Public Works Group Blog at http://www.publicworksgroup.com/blog. (All views expressed in this blog are her own and not those of PUBLIC WORKS.)