Yearly Archives: 2009

4 Steps To Building Transparency in “New World” government:

Government is truly entering a “new world” – one where citizen engagement matters. That is what transparency is really about. And that is why distributed transparency is important – it leads to effective engagement that truly builds citizen trust. So how do we achieve distributed or network transparency? In other words how do we dimensionalizeRead… Read more »

GovLoop Survey – How Do You Consume News?

The latest GovLoop survey was How Do You Consumer Your News: 12.7% Print News 54.0% Visit Web Sites 30.2% RSS Reader 3.2% Aggregators (Digg/GovZine) 0% Podcasts I find the results pretty interesting. For example, I read a lot of stories about the value and importance of aggregators but at the same time only 3.2% ofRead… Read more »

NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament (Day #2), Western Collegiate Hockey Assocation Tournament, and the NIT (sigh)

Yesterday, the madness began with Cleveland State in the south, the west with Whiskey, and the east with tiny Siena College. This is why the country loves March Madness; teams like Cleveland State University and Siena can capture the nation’s heart in a matter of weeks. Cleveland State University is a young urban institution (withRead… Read more »

“Sweet GovTweets” – Friday 20th March 2009

(Republishing it since it disappears for some and not others.) Apologies for errors in advance: @you2gov: @wefollow #OpenGov #Gov20 #Politics @justgrimes: Good questions about archives, records management, digital preservation. Historical transparency is important #opengov http://bit.ly/AOFX9 @justgrimes: Archives & transparency; exactly what I’m writing about right now the importance and imperative of government web2.0 record keepingRead… Read more »

US Department of State’s Global Video Contest Winners Inspire Cross-Cultural Understanding

What do a 14-year-old freshman in Columbus, Nebraska; a 23-year-old software engineer in Bangalore, India; a 16-year-old senior in Recife, Brazil; and a 22-year-old Fulbright scholarship recipient from Wheaton, Illinois have in common? They share a strong desire to create bridges across cultures and their unique action and vision has earned each a video contestRead… Read more »

Once a Louisvillian – Always a Louisvillian!

True, I live in the DC Metro area, but Louisville will always be home. For the past few years, I’ve only looked forward to Spring in Louisville because of the Kentucky Derby Festival… This time, the NCAA Championship lineup has added a little extra spring to my step… Can the Cardinals go all the way?Read… Read more »

Social networking in the government

I’m in the middle of my MBA electives at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. One of my electives is called Social Networking & Virtual Worlds. In this course, we are learning all about the benefits that today’s Web 2.0 technologies can provide to a business venture, or a manager in the Government like me! FirstRead… Read more »