Tag Archives: Twitter

How Event Organizers Can Take Advantage of Twitter’s New Photo Tagging

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Originally posted on Eventbrite Blog by Mark.

There's exciting news from the Twitter camp this week, as they announced a Facebook-style photo-tagging feature is being rolled out.

The feature will allow you to tag up to 10 people in any photos that you share on Twitter, who will then be notified that they've been tagged. Users can alter their notification and tag settings, so they can untag themselves or not allow their profile to be tagged at all.  For more info on how it works, check out their dedicated help page here. As part of the same announcement you can now upload up to four photos at the same time to any one tweet, making it easy to create a nice montage of photos. Best of all, tagging photos doesn't affect your character count so there's still the same amount of space for your witty captions!

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By the Tweets: GovDelivery’s Digital Communications Tour

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GovDelivery's digital communications tour is in full swing! Over the last month the tour has visited Oakland, CA and Austin, TX, sparking conversations on the value of technology, outreach, and communications in government, as well as strategies to increase that value. The tour has hosted many innovative, successful speakers, from private sector thought leaders with successful social media start-ups to public sector communicators working in state, city, and county government. Tour speakers have presented on trends, strategies and tactics to connect with more stakeholders and inspire them to take action - online or offline - to drive mission value.

But the tour isn't over! In April, GovDelivery will be taking the tour to three more cities, Raleigh, NC and Washington, D.C., before hosting the final stop in St. Paul, MN. If you haven't already, make sure to register for the event in your city today, space is limited!

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29 Jan CTOvision Podcast

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Originally posted by Ryan Kamauff on CTOvision

Play CTOvision Podcast featuring Daniel Mintz. Daniel Mintz is the Principal and Founder of ESEM Consulting and former CIO of the Department of Transportation. He is a lifelong technologist and avid Washington Capitals fan.

We discussed the following stories:
DOD, VA improve eBenefits portal
Government Appetite Growing for Twitter User Data
86,800 network printers open to the whole internet
Odierno: budget is greatest threat to national security
Google Announces Pwnium 3, Ups Ante and Offers $3M+ in Rewards
New bug makes moot Java's latest anti-exploit defenses, claims researcher
Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force
Data.gov gets agile with new alpha site
Government IT's Move to Cloud Slowed by Security Concerns, Misconceptions

GSA schedules Twitter chat for cloud broker idea (Aug 28)

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Originally posted by Michael Hardy on Federal Computer Week

Turns out, finding a cloud broker is an idea worth talking about.

Or so the General Services Administration thinks. The agency has scheduled a Twitter chat on Aug. 28 regarding its efforts to find a cloud broker - an entity that manages the performance and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between cloud providers and cloud consumers.

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