I have followed up, and received a very helpful, and courteous, reply and prompt from the site hosts – thanks Apparently there is no feed functionality as yet, so we can cross post http://scotweb2.co.uk/2009/04/26/scotweb2-helping-you-in-a-recssion/ For Scotland, this is the year of the Homecoming, so if you are over on June 19th, join the web2 folksRead… Read more »
Random Government Fact for the Day: NASA-developed technologies have found more than 30,000 secondary commercial uses in products ranging from plasma screens to heart rate monitors.
I’ll be visiting DC from Boston on the May 16-17 weekend and have some time on surrounding days to talk to federal government workers who are carrying on efforts in your agencies on the open government initiative. My intent is to write an article describing the psychological and social side of this work: the excitement,Read… Read more »
For the second time this year social media and diasters have worked well together. First Fargo North Dakota got out the message on twitter, fliker and webcams. People showed up not because of the news but IM and tweets. Now swine flu has been a topic on Twitter. CDCEmergency and others have posted links toRead… Read more »
Anyone old enough to remember that commercial – “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature?” The sooner we can get off the fossil fuel merry-go-round, the better, I say. And the better for Mother Earth. In this administration’s efforts to become more green, it’s possible to envision a day when government agencies will be requiredRead… Read more »
Hola, GovLoopers… it’s been a while since the Hokie Guru’s presence graced GovLoop.. and please don’t talk or write in the passive voice like that… only trained bloggers can do that!! 🙂 Hey, let’s step back… into 1989… Man, if you had long hair between 1989 and 1992, any major record label signed you toRead… Read more »
A longer version of this post is also available at the Reach the Public Blog. Federal, state, and local health agencies are working overtime to inform the public about the recent Swine Flu outbreak that is currently affecting Mexico and small portions of the United States, but that poses a real international threat. Direct informationRead… Read more »
Big news from today’s Obama Weekly Address. Most importantly for gov’t folks: “Third, we’ll look for ideas from the bottom up. After all, Americans across the country know that the best ideas often come from workers – not just management. That’s why we’ll establish a process through which every government worker can submit their ideasRead… Read more »
Overall I liked his view of citizen-centric services replacing the current approach of “webonizing the bureaucracy” and democratizing data to get results such as what happened when GPS was made publicly available for innovative uses. The new default position will definately be openness to the extent allowable by security constraints instead of walling off dataRead… Read more »
Swine Flu has just spread through the high school I attended in NY where 75 students fell sick, apparently infected by a few students who recently returned from Mexico. The World Health Organization has just reported that these outbreaks of swine flu in Mexico and the United States have the potential to cause a worldwideRead… Read more »