Jane Postlethwaite, Social Media Officer, Brighton & Hove City Council

The position of Social Media Officer is the first of its kind for Brighton & Hove City Council and the role began in November 2009. The role involves maintaining the council’s social media sites such as Flickr, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. It also involves training within the council and working within individual departments to see how social media sites could work successfully for them. Through using social media the council aims to have an online voice to contribute and monitor online discussion which can count towards benefiting the city’s residents.

In the last 8 months my role of Social Media Officer was shortlisted for the Next generation award at the Reputation Awards 2010 in Leeds.

I have been using social media since 2005 to promote myself and my work in the form of blogs, photography and video.