Michael Rupert, a communications manager with the District of Columbia, is a stellar recent addition to the global Gov 2.0 community. He’s a seasons professional but sort of burst onto the scene over the past several months, first on Twitter and GovLoop, then with his major contribution, LocalGovChat, a weekly Twitter chat and blog series uniting government communicators around the globe.
Like me, Mike is a family guy and struggles to balance raising kids and loving his spouse with being the best darn public servant he can. His frank honesty about the challenges, and surfacing of those challenges in public, is one of the things I value about Mike. Part of Government 2.0 is showing that the bureaucracy is made up of everyday folks, and Mike does that well, regularly sharing winning insights that help all of us do better.
Michael Rupert is one of my Gov 2.0 Heroes.
Check out Mike’s LocalGovChat.
