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)
  

  How a bill becomes a law in Texas, by Texas Coop Power

• 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