Bozeman, MT rescinds social networking profile policy

Posted: June 23rd, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments »

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  1. 1 Christen Dybenko said at 10:08 PM on June 23rd, 2009:

    Wow Ron, nice find.

    I was looking at the original document on Scrib and I was picturing some old lady who doesn’t know how to use the internet creating a word doc adding usernames and passwords for every website because she doesn’t know any better.

    I’m glad they fixed it, but I wonder how often this goes on…

  2. 2 Ron Bronson said at 10:53 PM on June 23rd, 2009:

    Yeah, I think it’s not the last we’ve seen of this sort of thing. At all.

  3. 3 Garin Kilpatrick said at 11:53 PM on June 23rd, 2009:

    Glad this was overturned because if it was not I bet it would have gotten ugly. I could see the Twitter community jumping on a story like this and turning this requirement into a PR nightmare for The City of Bozeman.

    -@GarinKilpatrick

  4. 4 Ron Bronson said at 2:40 PM on June 24th, 2009:

    I was thinking that too, Garin. It would’ve been uglier had they not been proactive about it. And from reading their comments on their site, it seemed like they just made an “honest mistake” and misread the situation, failing to realize the seriousness of what they were doing. I think they were smart enough to realize that it wasn’t going to be worth the trouble and of course, being in a place where it’s probably hard enough to recruit outsiders, that’s a PR nightmare they were swift to avoid.

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