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By Rep. Jason Murphey
Last week I enjoyed being in attendance at a Social Media conference which encouraged participants to engage in discussion and strategy sharing regarding their use of social media. Myself and State Representative Joe Dorman were in attendance to share our experiences of using social media as Legislators.
This forum provided me with an opportunity to explain how House Bill 2318 will empower the state’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) to develop and implement uniform social media policies by which state government can use social media.
I believe this is extremely important as social media provides the potential to establish an effective feedback mechanism in which the citizens can let state officials, and everyone else for that matter, know about the performance of state government.
In the past, when a citizen was ill-served by state government they likely had a few select channels into which they could direct their story of state government’s failure to perform. They could place a call to the bureaucracy which had performed poorly and with luck their complaint might reach up into the bureaucracy at some level. However, it is extremely unlikely that the leadership in that particular bureaucracy would ever hear about, much less remedy, the wrong. In too many cases the citizen’s voice simply goes unheard. Read more…
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