Directory of Government Twitter Accounts

Step 1. Create a directory of government-related accounts on Twitter. Why you say?
When I began using Twitter, my first interest was Gov 2.0 and how social media was being leveraged by Federal, state and local governments. I began using the "Find People" function to locate government sites that used Twitter. However, the results that came back were usually poor and require multiple attempts of keyword searching to finding these government accounts.

So, I created a Twitter account known as @govsites at http://www.twitter.com/govsites. The @govsites account follows every level of government from the local police and fire departments through Federal accounts in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Spain and beyond.

But a Twitter account that follows other accounts still does not provide enough value.

Step 2. Creating a Diigo.com social bookmarking directory of Twitter.com/govsites

Diigo is a social bookmarking site similiar to the more popular delicious.com site. I selected Diigo because Diigo tags can be a phrase or multiple words within quotation marks whereas delicious cannot resulting in tags like law-enforcement (Delicious) vs. "law enforcement" (Diigo).

As of July 1, I categorized over 60 percent of the Twitter/govsites following accounts.

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