Socitm says that County Councils saw their web traffic double last Friday and Saturday thanks to their provision of a sophisticated online election results service coupled with use of social media tolls like Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds and email alerts.

This blog is maintained by by the Social Media Subcouncil, which is a body of the United States Federal Web Managers Council. Its purpose is to highlight best practices in the use of Web 2.0 social media by government agencies. It includes links to news stories, case studies, conference papers, comment and new publications. Topics covered include the design of government websites; use of web 2.0 s...

  While the digital world is immersing itself in social media, with something else finally overtaking pornography as the UK’s favoured online pastime, companies operating in “business-to-business” remain sceptical. So says US-based communications expert, Shel Holtz, who appears to have repeatedly heard the refrain: “There’s no role for social ...

As a - primarily - “social media for business” resource, PR Media Blog was transported to a parallel universe at last night’s Social Media Cafe Manchester (#smc_mcr). The brave new online worlds of artistic endeavour shared by Heather Corcoran, curator of Liverpool’s media arts centre, FACT, seemed a heady mix of Heath Robinson and the crazy cartoon

  “Hungrier, less complacent and more willing to embrace new media” for business. That’s just one view why the US’s fastest-growing private companies - The Inc.500 - are giving the Fortune 500 a beating in terms of social media uptake, including use of blogs, online video and podcasting. The findings come from what The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

A recent survey of 100 IT professionals at Infosecurity Europe revealed surprising trends in individual and corporate use of social media. The Launchpad Europe IT Security Index 2009 was intended to gauge IT professionals' attitudes towards social media, as well as to compare individual and corporate use of social media.

Released today. TO ALCOAST SUBJ: SOCIAL MEDIA - OFFICIAL INTERNET POSTS 1. THIS ALCOAST PROVIDES INTERIM DIRECTION ON OFFICIAL COAST GUARD INTERNET POSTS ON WEB LOGS, KNOWN AS BLOGS, FORUMS, SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, AND OTHER WEB SITES. SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENTS NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO INFORM AND COLLABORATE WITH THE PUBLIC IN MANY WAYS. RECENTLY WE HAVE SEEN THIS THROUGH EXTENSIVE BLOG DISCUSSION OF THE SERV...

Claims from Social Media Affairs that Labour has less support among bloggers than the Tories should not, perhaps, be too great a surprise in the current climate. Yet the report has inspired a number of rebuttals. An offshoot of Social Media Library, a directory for the public relations industry which seems not to get social

Social Media Affairs has just released a report looking at the political social media landscape in the UK (with, ahem, myself being one of the four people contributing introductory remarks about politics and social media). Any report like this has to deal with all sorts of issues of definition and categorisation but there are some striking

  Speaking of social media, Ross Furlong at Brand Republic’s PRFurblog has questioned how up to date PR agencies are when it comes to online media services. He cites comments from Bigmouth Media about how backward the PR industry is in online capability - a bit like the style of policing Sam Tyler finds in 1970s-set “Life on Mars”. Well, not afraid