10 minute video – “How advertisers get it wrong with wikis,” by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia,at http://digg.com/d1tJvZ, offers some good insights into getting better traction by rethinking management control of the environment for Web 2.
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Lawmakers grilled representatives of the State Department and a private security firm today on the details and administration of a contract to provide protective services at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, suggesting that the company’s deficiencies in the past two years may have placed the compound at risk of an attack. Deputy Assistant SecretaryRead… Read more »
Participation Camp is a new and innovative unconference focused on the participatory component of open government. On June 27th and 28th, the weekend immediately preceding Personal Democracy Forum, we’ll take over NYU’s ITP building. http://participationcamp.org Some things we’re doing differently: – a virtual unconference running in parallel to the physical unconference – a conference-wide gameRead… Read more »
http://uscgd13.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-this-video-released-by-coast-guard.html In this video released by the Coast Guard, highlights of Coast Guard stories and events encompassing the Pacific Northwest are presented. This Around the District episode covers April / May 2009 and includes the MSST 91101 GITMO deployment, cases caught on tape, Surfmans Check Award, Military Appreciation Night with the Mariners, chainsaw training, EarthRead… Read more »
Well, we had an interesting morning, not that every morning isn’t interesting but this one will stand out as the day that things changed. I don’t like to write stories about myself and don’t believe that public affairs should be part of the story we tell, but in this case it is the story. (photoRead… Read more »
In case you’re wondering why I invited you to be friends here on GovLoop, it’s probably because you registered for the Gov 2.0 webinar that I recently did for NavigationArts. We are going to be posting some of the questions that we didn’t have time to address so we can all continue the discussion here!
This post originally appeared in my blog We the Goverati I recently posted an idea on the Open Government Dialogue under the Public-Private Partnerships section on Creating Accountability for Non-Profit organizationsreceiving government funding. At this point my idea has a positive score of 20. I was pleased with the process, happy to have been ableRead… Read more »
Below is information on a selection of FEI’s upcoming open enrollment programs. For more information and to see the complete listing of classes, visit www.leadership.opm.gov Building High Performing Organizations in the 21st Century This advanced program offering is based on three key assumptions: -You are an expert in your organization based on your years ofRead… Read more »
It’s likely that most social media-using denizens of GovLoop have multiple identies across many social media properties….if you’re on LinkedIn as well, here’s a group within which discussion about Homeland Security Information-Sharing topics is taking place… http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1927518