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Welcome to the Government & Social Media Wiki

Hi, my name is Josh Shpayher and this is my website which aims to help Congress, elected officials and their staffs from the Hill and around the country and the world, the media, and the public at large track who in government uses which forms of Social Media. Keep checking back as I will be constantly adding new offices of federal, state and local government, campaigns, and government agencies.

The Government and Social Media blog can be found at blog.govsm.com. Check there for regular page announcements as well as other government and social media news and info. Don't forget to sign up for the RSS feed.

Please follow me on @govsm, ,, or , use the discussion pages, and come back often!

Contents 1 Announcements 2 Getting Started 2.1 Federal Government 2.2 State and Local Government 2.3 Other Pages 3 New Pages 4 Coming Soon 5 Feedback 6 What They're Saying 7 Congress Twitter Feed

Announcements

• My interview about the Whipcast app with Jared Rizzi on The Morning Briefing, Sirius/XM's POTUS channel on November 21st.

• Video of my speech from the iima4gov conference in Sacramento: http://iima4gov.org/conference-video

Getting Started

Click the following links to see sortable tables of different branches of Government and what forms of social media are used around the country.

Federal Government House Senate Federal Agencies Presidential Campaigns House Campaigns Senate Campaigns House Committees Senate Committees

State and Local Government Governors Mayors Governor Campaigns State Government State Chief Information/Technology Officers

Other Pages Political Party Organizations Studies Sorting Influence Lists Old Tables

New Pages

• California Assembly
• California Senate
• Political Party Organizations

Coming Soon

• More State Legislatures

Feedback

Take a look, test it out, send feedback. We love feedback!

Please follow us: or or Govloop

Questions or comments can be sent to Josh

Read the blog, leave comments or grab the RSS feed

What They're Saying

• Using Wikis in Government by Ines Mergel @inesmergel

• Governing by Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

• CBS News by Alex Howard @digiphile

• Huffington Post & IBM Center for the Business of Government by Gadi Ben-Yehuda @gbyehuda

• New York Times A Rarity in Congress: The Social Media Holdout by Daniel Libit @daniellibit

• Politico.com Social Media Everywhere by Ben Smith @benpolitico

• techPresident.com The Social Media Habits of Elected Officials by Nancy Scola @nancyscola

• Examiner.com Why doesn't Sheldon Whitehouse have a Twitter feed? by Yonah Walter @politicsWookiee

Congress Twitter Feed