SeeClickFix Announces Launch of Innovative New Facebook Application With the launch of its new Facebook application, SeeClickFix proudly announces yet another tool for empowering citizens and improving communities. Available today, the SeeClickFix App allows Facebook users to report and monitor non-emergency community issues. It also connects them with neighbors to address their shared concerns ranging from bugs in the municipal fabric such as potholes and graffiti to feature requests such as new trees and murals.With over 50,000 reported issues already resolved through SeeClickFix.com and its mobile phone applications, the most important feature of the new Facebook App will be the offline results generated from users’ online activity. It will tie directly into SeeClickFix’s already-powerful reporting platform, allowing citizens to broadcast their issues directly to the site’s 14,000 registered public officials.

SeeClickFix Announces Launch of Innovative New Facebook Application

With the launch of its new Facebook application, SeeClickFix proudly announces yet another tool for empowering citizens and improving communities. Available today, the SeeClickFix App allows Facebook users to report and monitor non-emergency community issues. It also connects them with neighbors to address their shared concerns ranging from bugs in the municipal fabric such as potholes and graffiti to feature requests such as new trees and murals.

With over 50,000 reported issues already resolved through SeeClickFix.com and its mobile phone applications, the most important feature of the new Facebook App will be the offline results generated from users’ online activity. It will tie directly into SeeClickFix’s already-powerful reporting platform, allowing citizens to broadcast their issues directly to the site’s 14,000 registered public officials.

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5 Ways Cities Are Using Social Media to Reverse Economic Downturn | Mashable

The economic downturn has forced cities and states across the country to be more creative as they compete to attract companies and stimulate local economies. In just the past year, local economic development agencies have turned to social media tools and tactics to enhance their efforts nationally and locally.

According to a 2009 survey conducted by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) and marketing agency Development Counsellors International (DCI), 57% of IEDC members surveyed said they were using social media tools. Of that, 63% had used them for less than a year. At the time, developers primarily focused their social media efforts on internal or regional uses, such as disseminating news and providing links to resources that support local businesses.LinkedInLinkedIn was the social network of choice.

What a difference a year makes. Since the survey, economic developers have expanded their social media repertoire. Looking beyond localized efforts, they are using blogs, TwitterTwitter, FacebookFacebook and YouTubeYouTube to attract and interact with site selectors and company decision makers nationally and globally.

Here are five ways cities and regions are using social media today.

(Read the rest on Mashable)

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