Sources Cited – 2015 Texas Legislative Intern Seminar
Government and Social Media
- Legislative Council, Texas Legislature Online
- Texas Association of Counties, The History and Power of the Hashtag (article about the history and use of Twitter by the Texas Legislature)
- National Conference of State Legislatures, State Legislative Social Media Sites and Policies
- Texas Department of Information Resources, Social Media Guide
- All Texas State Agency tweets in one Twitter Feed
- How State Agencies Use Instagram, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Texas Historical Commission
- Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Approved Label/Product Inquiry
- Facebook, Getting Started Guide for Elected Officials
- Twitter, Government and Elections Handbook
- Senate Business and Commerce Committee, Tips for Your Testimony (2011)
- SFGate, Tweeting Clerk Quits, Tells Pleasant Hill What She Really Thinks
- SXSW, Spotlight on Texas Legislature/Social Media panel
- Influence Opinions, Online Landscape of Texas 83rd Legislature Special Session
- Legislative Budget Board, Fiscal Size-Up and Interactive Graphics
- Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee, SB 1 Witness List, July 8, 2013
- TexLege, “a comprehensive mobile application for Texas political junkies” (see author’s comments on update status)
Social Media Update
- My presentation to the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas
- PewResearch, Social Media Update 2014
- Journalism.co.uk, How 5 Media Outlets Are Using Tumblr
- Dredmorbius, Estimating Google+ User Activity
- TechPresident, The +Newt Gingrich Google Hangout: How’d That Go?
Social Media Risks
- National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, Digital Footprint: Assessing Risk and Impact
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans.
- Adweek, Tweet Carefully – A Lawyer’s Guide to Avoiding Twibel
- Lifehacker, Guide to Managing your Facebook Privacy
- Spotify playlist to send when you need to apologize (via The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
- Change your Twitter avatar for the workday (IFTTT recipe)
Crowdsourcing
Input-tainment is just that: noisy civic pretend toys. Better tools: verified digital vote, deliberative polls, paid citizen juries.
— Julio Gonzalez A. (@juliogatx) January 22, 2015
- Techdirt, Icelandic Politicians Ignore Crowdsourced Constitutions
- Texas Red Tape Challenge
- Glasshouse Policy
Trends in Allowing the Public to Comment
- http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/12/01/resolved-comments-sections-need-to-go/
- http://digiday.com/publishers/4-publishers-killed-comment-sections-2014/
- http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/strategy-studies/choose-commenting-platform/
Other
- Texas Legislative Council, Drafting Manual
- Texas Capitol Grill Menus
- Admiral McRaven, Commencement Speech
- Text file of Texas Cities (right click, download, import into your word processor dictionary)
- Halpern, Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation