Have Any Government Social Media Activities Led to Really Obvious Results?

I had lunch today with Bill Greeves, CIO of Wake County, North Carolina, and author of "Social Media in the Public Sector Field Guide." As we were talking about the use of social media in government, we could not think of any really clear examples where a public sector organization has cited specific, demonstrable results from the use of social media (other than maybe CDC, who puts their metrics out there for all to see). For instance, do you know of any organizations that have:- Run a strategic social media campaign that aimed at hitting a specific number of pageviews, document downloads, or some other clear metric that would indicate successful

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  1. Steve Ressler

    94.0 days ago

    Have Any Government Social Media Activities Led to Really Obvious Results? http://t.co/0DFy42tI

  2. Andrew Krzmarzick

    94.0 days ago

    What's happening today? SM Week in DC? RT @justinherman: Just wait for tomorrow MT @krazykriz: Ideas? http://t.co/xVm5U9QN

  3. Andrew Krzmarzick

    94.0 days ago

    Have Any Government Social Media Activities Led to Really Obvious Results? http://t.co/WwbZlmlu

  4. Justin Herman

    94.0 days ago

    Just wait for tomorrow MT @krazykriz: @justinherman Ideas? http://t.co/eBsykVJY (social media in gov w/clear ROI, $$ / time savings)

  5. Gadi Ben-Yehuda

    94.0 days ago

    "Have Any Government Social Media Activities Led to Really Obvious Results?" @JustinHerman is answering. http://t.co/l9kF7T5H #gov20

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    94.0 days ago

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