Tripepi Smith Insights: CCA CommuniCAtor
Tripepi Smith's insight series on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and Community Choice Energy (CCE).
Google Alerts vs. Meltwater: What’s the better media monitoring tool?
Learn the differences between Meltwater and Google Alerts and what that means for your organization and its communications strategy.
Social Media News to Know: December 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. This knowledge empowers our team to track, interpret and adapt to the latest and greatest social media trends on behalf of the public agencies we serve. The following is the latest installment of our regular roundup of [...]
Anticipating 2023 Social Media Marketing Trends
Tripepi Smith offers—by way of our media monitoring partner Meltwater’s 2023 Marketing & Comms Trends webinar and guidebook—an overview of social media industry trends, technological and consumer developments, core principles and data analysis best practices.
Should You Get Twitter Blue Verification?
Twitter has officially relaunched its Twitter Blue verification/checkmark system. Should you get Twitter Blue? Here is some information and helpful reflection questions to ask before you decide.
Social Media News to Know: November 2022
Tripepi Smith's social media news to know monthly roundup for the month of November.
7 Takeaways from the 2022 GFOA Rethinking Public Engagement Summit
Here are the seven most important things we learned from the 2022 "Rethinking Public Engagement Summit" by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA).
YouTube Expands Community Feature to More Accounts
YouTube is expanding access to its "Community" feature, and you no longer need 500 Subscribers to access it.
Social Media News to Know: October 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. This knowledge empowers our team to track, interpret and adapt to the latest and greatest social media trends on behalf of the public agencies we serve. The following is the latest installment of our regular roundup of [...]
Nextdoor Announces Ads for Agencies
Nextdoor announced that public agencies now have the ability to publish ads on its platform, either through self-service or a $15,000/month.
Control Social Media Chaos with Digital Governance
Who has accountability and decision-making authority for the strategy, policies and standards surrounding your social media sites? If you don't immediately know the answer, our guide can help you get organized.
Social Media News to Know: September 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. This knowledge empowers our team to track, interpret and adapt to the latest and greatest social media trends on behalf of the public agencies we serve. The following is the latest installment of our regular roundup of [...]
The Next Evolution of Google Analytics
As the digital world advances, platforms constantly evolve. One platform going through changes is Google Analytics. From beginning in 2005 to launching Google Analytics 4 (GA 4) in October 2020, the program has undergone many changes to get where it is today. Since analytics are the way we measure engagement, the switch to GA 4 [...]
Social Media News to Know: August 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. This knowledge empowers our team to track, interpret and adapt to the latest and greatest social media trends on behalf of the public agencies we serve. The following is the latest installment of our regular roundup of [...]
Nextdoor Opens Its Doors To More Public Agencies
Special districts can now have their own free Nextdoor Agency Page to communicate with residents within their district.
Social Media News to Know: July 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. This knowledge empowers our team to track, interpret and adapt to the latest and greatest social media trends on behalf of the public agencies we serve. The following is the latest installment of our regular roundup [...]
A Guide to Using Facebook Local Alerts
Facebook has offered a Local Alerts feature since March 2020, allowing Facebook public agency page administrators to push instant notifications about critical items to people in their communities. The setting is currently open to local government, first responder and public health agency Pages in the U.S. In addition to Local Alerts, public agencies can create [...]
Social Media News to Know: June 2022
Learn more about the latest updates coming to Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook in the June 2022 Social Media News Roundup.
The Most Prevalent Local Government Website Platforms Among Tripepi Smith Clients
Tripepi Smith clients often ask us what other website platforms their peers use. Here is our anecdotal yet quantitative look at the most prevalent local government website platforms.
Social Media News to Know: May 2022
Tripepi Smith’s Always-Be-Learning (#ABL) culture drives us to stay up to speed on constantly changing social media platforms. Check out these 5 need-to-know social media updates from May 2022.

















