by Andrea Di Maio | November 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
A few days ago Italian web pundit and entrepreneur Marco Camisani Calzolari published “Escape from Facebook“, which was widely announced on social media and presented, in its Italian version, at the Lower House in Rome. Camisani Calzolari has been recently in the international news for his research on fake followers, which raised substantial interest as [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Italy, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | October 31, 2012 | 6 Comments
Like many natural and man-made disasters before it, Hurricane Sandy has shown once again the power of social media to keep people informed, to coordinate rescue efforts and ultimately save lives. There are countless stories already about how Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have helped people in need, reassured their relatives that they [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | October 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
Earlier this morning I had a session on “Should Social Media Be Enterprise or Personal Tools” at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, where I made the point that social media endeavors can provide sustainable values only by blending personal, enterprise and community purposes . One interesting comment from the audience was that quite often communities created [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | August 9, 2012 | 5 Comments
Yesterday I had an interesting and revealing experience about the dynamics of social media. One of my contacts in Facebook, a consultant in the Italian banking sector and a mercurial blogger, posted about a device that he connects to the TV set and emits a quite bright blue light even in standby mode, which is [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | July 23, 2012 | 3 Comments
A while ago I wrote about a research by Italian entrepreneur and contract university professor Marco Camisano Calzlari claiming that a substantial percentage of Twitter followers for some large corporation would be “bots”. There was quite some debate at the time about how founded his results were: looking at the metrics described in his paper, [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Italy, social media, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | June 28, 2012 | 16 Comments
The tons of virtual ink that are being used to discuss e-participation, e-democracy, social organizations, enterprise or government 2.0, social media and collaboration seem to assume that everybody is moved by an unstoppable desire to collaborate with others. Vendors, consultants, social media gurus, politicians, communication professionals and amateurs all depict a compelling future where the [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media
by Andrea Di Maio | January 9, 2012 | 11 Comments
During the Christmas break I have been reading “The Social Organization”, an excellent book written by two distinguished colleagues of mine, Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald, which looks at how organizations in different industry sectors can take advantage from social media more strategically than many do today. The book leverages a lot of Gartner research [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: social media
by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
My busy first day at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona ended with a quite interesting round table with a few clients on the topic of social media in government. Almost immediately we ended up discussing about the distinction between internal and external use of social media. One attendee shared that, despite the success their [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 7, 2011 | Comments Off
I just ran a workshop at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona about the use of social media. In the workshop I raised for questions: Do your social media policies cover different roles and how? – This was meant to discuss whether participants’ organizations have only a blanket social media policy that applies to all employees, [...]
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Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | October 20, 2011 | Comments Off
As the end of the largest Gartner Symposium ever is approaching, I thought I would like to share some of the take aways from interacting with hundreds of government clients over the last four and a half days: Smart Government Serious budgetary concerns are percolating through US federal government agencies and, while state and local [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
