County Implements Social Media Plan

For immediate release: October 6, 2009
Contact: Public Affairs, 355-2754

Palm Beach County’s Public Affairs Department recently implemented several social media applications on its homepage, pbcgov.com. In order to offer additional outlets for public information, the county now has RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for all news releases, as well as Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Twitter (http://twitter.com/pbcgov) is being used to post county government news releases and media advisories, while video clips and programs produced by PBC TV Channel 20 are posted on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/pbcgov20).

This pilot effort was researched and created by Public Affairs with assistance from the county’s Information Systems Services (ISS) Department.