Governments use social media — with caution - Denver Business Journal:

As local and state governments tiptoe into the new world of social media, they’re finding it can be a legal minefield.

“Anybody with Internet access has the ability to screw it up for the organization, and if they do screw it up, it goes out more widely,” said Ken Fellman, a partner in the law firm of Kissinger & Fellman in Denver, who specializes in local government and telecommunications law. “In some ways, cities are asking the same questions that they asked 20 years ago when they were starting to get their government cable channels on the air, and 10 years ago when they were starting to get their websites up, and four years ago when they were asking themselves ‘should we do a blog..?’”