Gwynne would be a very strong candidate. Her qualifications include her tenure as the Director, New Media at U.S. Department of Homeland Security and now Co-Director, Center for New Media and Citizen Engagement at General Services Administration. From my perspective, she’s been “in the trenches” with two high profile agencies and has done/is doing a superb job. Her communication skills are excellent.

There are going to be challenges associated with this Twitter position and Gwynne’s record of achievement has probably prepared her well to deal with these challenges.

For the record, I’ve had no conversations with Gwynne about this and while she is probably very happy with what she’s doing right now (judging from her participation in various forums, conferences, etc.) and may not want to be considered for this position, I think Twitter and the government would benefit tremendously from having Gwynne in this position.

Not having a female represented on an exhaustive and extensive list of…4? Not so much.

The biggest problem I see is that if someone’s good enough to get hired out of gov’t, I’d probably rather they stayed in gov’t!

Good post and great people nominated. I know most of them personally and they would be great.

My comment is around SMS and Twitter and Govt.

Many smart people are focused on the Smart Phone. That is cool, but the fact is most people in the world and in the US use “dumb” phones.

And what do these dumb phones have? 100% have SMS.

The brilliance of Twitter is that it works on SMS. Note that the fastest growing group on Twitter is African American.

Any work Twitter does with Government and Elected officials should build on the the fact that Twitter runs on SMS and can be adopted by the largest majorities of citizens.

No need to wait for Broadband !

Shaun Dakin – @ShaunDakin
Candidate for the Twitter Govt Job
Website > http://hireshaundakin.posterous.com/
Twitter Account > @TweetGovt
Hashtag > #HireSD
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