#Gov20 Resources for 2010 – Please Add!

2009 was inarguably a great year for the Gov 2.0 movement. I’ll trust folks like Andrea DiMaio, Steve Radick, Gwynne Kostin, Tim O’Reilly and Mark Drapeau to make that point better than I can.

But what I did want to offer in terms of sort of a year-end wrap are a number of links to resources that I found helpful during the year. This is pretty much the list of links I e-mail to officials looking to get started in social media, from policy to practice. I hope you find it useful, and that you’ll add more resources in the comments.

• City of San Francisco social media links; birth of the @sfcityattorney Twitter account (modeled after MassGov efforts); more Twitter accounts from San Francisco officials and agencies.
• Govloop.com – known as the “Facebook for Government,” where fed, local and state employees and contractors actively discuss best-practices and share ideas
• The Federal Web Managers Social Media Subcouncil has an active wiki with policies and best practices.
• A collection of blog posts I’ve done on gov and social media.
• State of Utah is one of the governments doing it best and has issued clean and simple social media guidelines (pdf).
• Roanoke County issued a sound social media policy (pdf download from Google Docs)
• Many of the best social media policies come from the corporate tech world, and, like this one from IBM, include “Don’t Forget Your Day Job.”
• Intel has a good closing line about moderation – “The Good, the Bad, But Not the Ugly.”
• The Air Force Social Media Guide (pdf) is very impressive, and Page 8 has a good outline of policies. The AF simply takes the approach that since most airmen are engaged in social media, they need to accept that and train, counsel and guide.
• Social media presents a significant issue for many jurisdictions with stringent IT policies. The DOE addresses that (pdf) with a “limited use” policy for the Web. 
• I was impressed by Delaware’s social media policy (pdf).
• The Muni Gov 2.0 group continues to generate great content, like this guide to government in Second Life.
• I also enjoyed the Twitter guide put together by Dave Briggs of Learning Pool.

Please add your favorite resources. First is from Jenn Gustetic, who points out a developing wiki on the Open Government Directive.

~ Adriel Hampton is a San Francisco public servant and host of the Gov 2.0 Radio podcast. Follow him on Twitter @adrielhampton.

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