Government Social Media Blog

Welcome, first-time attendees, to your first Government Social Media Conference! We’re so glad you decided to join Team GSM either online or in person in Dallas, Texas this March, and we can’t wait to...

Contributed blog by Rhonda Simpson, Communications Specialist for the City of Dallas Office of Emergency Management and a member of the 2022 Government Social Media Conference Local Host Committee. GS...

Are you planning to join over 900 of your peers at the 2022 Government Social Media Conference?

Happening both virtually and in person in Dallas, Texas, March 29-31, 2022, GSMCON2022 is the largest s...

Recently, Pages started automatically transitioning to Facebook's New Pages Experience. What questions do you have on this change for your government social media Pages? 

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Elevate your 2022 Government Social Media Conference experience this year by adding on one (or all!) of these pre-conference workshops hosted by leading industry experts. In each workshop, we’re takin...

What days should you keep in mind for your government social media content calendar? Here’s a helpful roundup of some of the observed days happening in February you might want to build content for — o...

This is a contributed blog by Kristy Dalton, founder of Government Social Media and the Government Social Media Conference, where ArchiveSocial is a GSMCON Sponsor.

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Government social media professionals across the U.S. only have until 11:59 p.m. PT, tonight Monday, February 7 to get your Golden Post Awards nominations submitted! Be recognized for all the hard, de...

The entry period for the Golden Post Awards is extended through 11:59 p.m. PT, Monday, February 7!! Be recognized for your dedicated work and share your agency’s social media accomplishments by gettin...

Your hard work in the government social media field doesn’t go unnoticed, but the time to submit your entry into the Golden Post Awards is closing soon! Be recognized for your dedicated work and share...

Contributed blog by Russel Lolacher, Director of Web and Social Media Services for the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and author of the Relationships at Work blog

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Humans are social by nature, so it’s no surprise that more than 80 percent of Americans use social media, according to Statista. 

As government agencies lean to social media to communicate current ev...

Gone are the days when you could repurpose the same image or graphic across multiple social media platforms. Now, the recommended social media image sizes vary by platform and are seemingly always cha...

Share your agency’s social media accomplishments and be recognized for your dedicated work by submitting your entry for the Golden Post Awards now through 11:59 p.m. PT Thursday, February 3.

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What days should you keep in mind for your government social media content calendar? 

We’ve heard many government social media professionals like you ask for a helpful roundup resource of calendar ob...

What days should you keep in mind for your government social media content calendar? Here’s a helpful roundup of some of the observed days happening in January you might want to build content for — or...