Why South Ogden City is using Social Media Wrong

I read this amazing blog post about social media today. http://www.engagedc.com/2010/01/05/two-cities-two-mayors-two-approaches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+PatrickRuffini+(Patrick+Ruffini)

It shows two different approaches to social media and also answers the question of previous posts of why social media is important.

With the legislature rearing up and new people running for office in the coming year, social media will be used in some very exciting ways. David Carr of the New York times recently talked in more detail as to why Twitter will endure: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html

I encourage our councilmen, mayor and more to be more actively involved with social media. Our new mayor jumped in to twitter and facebook while running for office, but once he was elected he stopped using them. This is concerning to me, since he found it [social media] important enough to use to reach out to people, but now he doesn't care.