I recall talking about this issue with colleagues a year ago and now that the campaign season is really heating up, the State Elections Enforcement Commission has decided to interpret the new campaign finance law by saying that campaigns must put disclaimers on their social sites. I’m totally in favor of full transparency but Yikes - do they understand that this would eat up your entire Twitter character allowance?
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Campaign Finance Disclaimers on Social Media Sites
Monday, August 9th, 2010Tags: campaign finance, disclaimer, social media
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Incumbents are damned if they do and damned if they don’t (send mailers, that is)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009An editorial in the Hartford Courant today complained that incumbent legislators are “wasting” over a million dollars in taxpayer funds on newsletter mailings to constituents when what the paper alleges they are actually doing is campaigning. But if we want open government and transparency, we’ve got to pay to hear from the folks who speak for us at the state capitol.
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Why do you Tweet? Birds of a feather…
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Apparently, we all want the same things. We want togetherness, answers, someone to talk to, to be Peeping Toms, and to find work. Some folks at SocialMediaToday recently asked via Twitterand why people used the social media tool and these were some of the most popular answers they heard back.
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