Any tips on using Facebook groups to bring elected officials into your movement or policy efforts?
My take is that it will be far easier to get elected officials to join this than some other online group format online ... I want to create a lightweight way for them to go from using social media to get votes to identify themselves as part of the open government movement. If they see other cities taking action, they will be more likely to say ... we can do that too. See: https://bitly.com/opengovfacebookEL Thoughts? - Steve ... We've launched a new bridge building Facebook Group on Open Government and Civic Technology. Join in: https://bitly.com/opengovfacebookEL The key strategy is to connect an emerging generation of "digitally native" elected officials with the open government movement. All over the world, starting at the local level, candidates are using Facebook aggressively to connect with voters and then their constituents. Their instincts toward more open engagement are just, that instincts. To convert their excitement about communicating with constituents via Facebook into adopting open data policies or ensuring political decisions that lead to the release of X or Y data set, we need to connect them with the broader open government movement and other interested elected officials. Candidates making open government pledges while campaigning are far more likely to push innovation forward if elected than those who don't. Using a Facebook Group and knowledge/inspiration hub is about "location, location, location." It is just one click to join. Since many of you are "friends" with a "wired" elected official or political leader who supports more open government, once you join, use the Facebook's invite/add feature to bring on those elected officials and political staff you think would be interested. Don't be shy. Facebook assumes that if your some one's "friend" you can be trusted to add those friends to groups and then Facebook's news feed and notification settings are designed to prevent them from being flooded. Take the risk. Also, civil servants and civil society groups are very very welcome and will likely be the bulk of members. You are all very welcome. Join from: https://bitly.com/opengovfacebookEL Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
