‘Working from the outside in’, is there still a municipality in the Netherlands where that slogan has not been utter? Social mia can be excellent tools to make that ambition come true in practice. But does that happen? And what can municipalities learn from how other companies in the Netherlands use social mia?
The answers were given yesterday during the second day of the Social Mia Week Rotterdam. Let’ norway phone number library s start with the municipalities. At the beginning of the day, David Kok and Niels Loeffen and Ewoud de Voogd of How About You present the book ‘ Open Gemeenten – De sociale mia-almanak voor gemeenten 2015 ‘. The book contains the results of a large-scale study into the use
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Within five years, the ten-question survey has grown into a substantial study that has acquir a certain status in the municipal sector. Every municipality wants to see how it scores and how it can do even better. Nevertheless, the compilers emphasize that the almanac is not a competition of ‘who is the best in social mia?’, but should help municipalities take the next steps.
Jan van Ginkel receiv the first copy on behalf of the Service Provision and Information Policy committee of the Association of Dutch Municipalities. “A beautiful book,” the municipal secretary of Schiam prais the extensive work. He also immiately had an assignment for the researchers: “Can you also investigate next time how the use of social mia can strengthen the power of local communities?” In other words: what is the add value of social mia in the collaboration between government and society? A challenge that Kok and his colleagues were happy to accept.The bridge between
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The compilers have now publish quite a bit about the results . What is striking is that most municipalities have pass the south africa numbers first phase of discovery and are now in the second phase of experimenting. The researchers call this ‘Phase 2’. Loeffen: “Municipalities say: okay, we have Twitter, we have quite 10 tips to make dowry shopping easier a few followers, but what are we going to do with it now?”
