Today’s post focuses on questions—specifically, how to write and post one.

That is something you should  ask yourself when thinking about how your local government is using social media. While watching an informative webinar “Social Media in Government,” that I encourage you all to watch, I learned a few key lessons about what social media can do for local governments:

Everyone is throwing the term “Big Data” around nowadays, but what do you really need to know about it? After attending a highly informative webinar on Big Data by govloop, I came away with these five key points. This list will give you the basics on Big Data, and the links under each item will allow you to delve deeper into that specific topic.