Maryland Social Media

Social Media Monday (Vol. 4, No. 23)

July 7, 2014

“You Can’t Be Afraid to Engage”

Governments Struggling to Get Social Media Right: Via Governing

Rarely do I highlight industry articles in this section of our SMM but this one is worth the read. Pay particular attention to the information presented on the ‘one-government’ approach. Let me know what you think.

DataBay: “Reclaim the Bay” Challenge (Aug 1- 3)

Have you heard? We are hosting an amazing weekend Civic Hackathon resulting in innovative data-driven applications that will increase public engagement in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. We hope that you will come participate in the weekend Challenge as well as help us to get the word out about this amazing effort.

First, jump on Twitter and follow @databay_md then message often about this great event using hashtag #Databay for any tweets about the Challenge. Lastly, please share the @DataBay_MD tweets when possible. Thank you in advance for your help in this important effort.

Operation Hire: Maryland’s 100 Day Veteran Hiring Challenge! Use #MDOperationHire

THANK YOU! We have received such tremendous support for our 100 Day Veteran Hiring Challenge from all of our agency social media coordinators! This campaign is super long though and we need you to keep the momentum going! Please continue to push out this important effort. We are focusing on gaining more employers into the challenge in the month of July. Encourage your followers that are business owners to join the challenge and commit to hiring Maryland Veterans.

Many of our agencies are active participants in this effort as well. Is yours? If not, make sure you sign up and then post when you have joined and when you have hired a Maryland Veteran!

This month’s #MDOperationHire focus: Operation Hire Veteran Employer Tool Kit