I see San Francisco. Young, tech-savvy, trendy, and over zealous.

And then I wonder what other people, who have never been here, get upon their first interaction with the city. I wondered what they were able to assume based on San Francisco’s digital persona.

So first I googled “San Francisco”. Cool, a map, some photos, and some links to stuff. Let me click around. I land on the San Francisco’s Visitors Bureau homepage. Wow! This looks awesome! Pictures everywhere, its fancy looking. Then I go to SF’s Gov site, just cause it was next on my search results. WHOA.

After being pleasantly surprised with the amount of Social Media integration the city of San Francisco had going on, us dorks at Mojave decided to put some of the big cities up against each other. Here’s what we did:

After hours of arguing over which city flaunted the best interactive-social-media-centric internet image, we decided to rank them based on the Mojave Social Media scoring model. Here are the results:

We looked at seven cities: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, and Boston
Their use and integration of Social Media in several key areas: Official City & City Visitors Bureau websites, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and any additional City-run Social Media initiatives
They are judged on 4 levels of performance: Presence, Integration, Engagement, and Buzz

Highest score overall wins bragging rights for being “The Most Social City on the Internet”.

See the final results How Social is Your City?