A Loyal Following of One

In working on how the Obama administration uses online social network sites for a new project that updates the Virtualpolitik book, my latest find has been Social Government, a website that gives advice to policy makers about best practices for using Facebook and best practices for using Twitter when it comes to a government agency. It also points readers to GovTwit, a Twitter directory to follow the activities of both federal and state agencies, as well as the Twitter feeds of government agencies abroad. Although the writer seems to have let the blog and Twitter feed for the site largely, I thought this analysis of the genre of online chat under the Bush administration merited more reading attention.