LinkedIn can be an extremely useful tool for government agencies. While the network may be thought of first as a recruitment platform, LinkedIn is a valuable tool for government communicators to reach your community in unique ways and to equip, celebrate and encourage your agency’s current employees, too. Are you using the platform to its full potential?

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Team GSM is planning a special hybrid event both in-person in Dallas, Texas and online for our 7th annual Government Social Media Conference (GSMCON), making the conference even more accessible to the whole community. No matter what ticket type you pick, you’ll walk away — or log off — from a fulfilling experience making you an even more confident, efficient government social...

Early-bird registration for the Government Social Media Conference (GSMCON) is now open! We can’t wait to meet with government social media professionals in Dallas, Texas as well as those joining the virtual livestream during this special hybrid event March 29-31, 2022. Save the most by reserving your spot before early-bird registration ends November 15! Here’s how.  

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Government Social Media is excited to announce in-person events are returning in 2022! Multi-day virtual events were necessary during the pandemic, but many of you have expressed the desire to get together in person again, while still including virtual options for those who can’t travel. 

What does this mean for our events? 

• Instead of virtually this fall, the next Social for...

Registration is now open for the 2021 Virtual Government Social Media Conference (GSMCON)! Mark your calendars now for March 23-25, 2021 to be a part of the only major social media conference in the United States for government agencies.

Virtual GSMCON helps government professionals — everyone from agency leadership to the occasional social media contributor — use social media...

After six months into the COVID crisis, it’s still unsafe to travel, many of us are still operating virtually and there’s no indication of an end in sight. Many agencies are keeping with their strict travel bans — leaving public communicators just like you — wondering when you can meet with your support networks again.

While in person is just not possible right now, we...