Local Government in Need of Social Media Lessons

Here's an interesting Government 2.0 story where a local government official complains via email about a real estate blog's veracity, demands material be removed, and refuses to "respond via the blog" - thereby provoking, as we understand all too readily in the Internet Marketing and Social Media industry, a firestorm of comment and much broader exposure of his unfortunate position. A little education and guidance in things like SEO, SEM practices and the wonderful world of Social Media 2.0 may have helped things - and yet may still.