By Susan Bregman (Ed.), Kari Edison Watkins (Ed.)
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Each phase was very purposeful. We opened a Flickr account because we were opening a second Tacoma Narrows Bridge in July 2007. We decided to let people walk on it before it was opened to traffic and take pictures and upload them to the web. The way we stumbled onto Flickr was we were thinking, “How in the world are we going to upload all these photos? ” It was much easier to pay 25 bucks for a professional Flickr account and upload photos straight from the cameras from the bridge. It ended up being incredibly successful and it just went from there.
References American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. 2011. Twitter, Facebook growing as effective media tools for state departments of transportation. Communications brief. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. 2012. Third Annual State DOT Social Media Survey. Arrington, M. 2008. Facebook no longer the second largest social network. TechCrunch. com/2008/06/12/facebook-no-longer-thesecond-largest-social-network/ (accessed October 1, 2012). Bregman, S.
I think there is so much noise out there I feel bad for those agencies that are just now getting onto social media. On the other hand, there is so much knowledge out there that they really need to pay attention to that knowledge. There is no reason they shouldn’t be able to succeed based on what’s out there by watching how these companies succeed or fail based on what they’re putting out. I wish more of them really took the time to evaluate how successful they are with their social strategies. Just linking your incident feed up to a Twitter account can only take you so far.