Yearly Archives: 2009

Accessing and assessing

Spidering Tim Bonnemann‘s “zilino” project I came across something he had posted to Flickr: Group assessment module. That brought to mind a little sketch I made to concretize my thinking for “IssuePress”, so I uploaded this image to Flickr. see “Use of Faceted Classification“ I tag it “OLAP”. Most would find that bizarre; some, IRead… Read more »

Transparency Camp

Today in Washington at the George Washington University campus, people from across the spectrum are coming together to discuss transparency in government. I am not available to attend in person, but I’m following the discussions and observations on Twitter (#tcamp09). The website is available at http://www.transparencycamp.org/. The website states: This un-conference is about convening aRead… Read more »

Back Office

I’m based in an administrative support office for two bureaus of the State Department. I suspect that I could make good use of Web 2.0 functionality in providing guidance and information on administrative issues to my colleagues who do programs and policy, but the models I find are focused on serving external customers. So IRead… Read more »

Can Government Procurement Be Streamlined By Using Collaboration Technologies and Social Media?

By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. Author’s note: this is a republication from the author’s web site located here. The report Six Practical Steps to Improve Contracting by Dr. Allan V. Burman, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, is based on a series of discussions co-sponsored by The IBM Center for the Business of Government and GeorgeRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Pentagon Workers Pitched Part-Time Work

Earlier this week a loyal reader sent The Eye a Craigslist jobs listing posted by an apartment rental company with properties in Northern Virginia seeking Pentagon-based Department of Defense employees interested in marketing nearby furnished apartments to employees temporarily assigned to the massive government building. “We will pay you a $100 PER MONTH PER PERSONRead… Read more »

The world as it is…

…isn’t always as it seems. Especially with the explosion of tools and widgets that we have all come to know and love. We will always be people, but what will this new technology bring to us, or us to it? I remain humbled by the power of humans to begin again and again.

Web 2.0 in Gov’t: don’t ask/don’t tell?

Joking around with a client today, we acknowledged that in many ways, the approach to social media in government has been a “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy – launch something under the radar without official approvals or face obstacles and roadblocks that deter all but the most determined. We also acknowledged that things are starting toRead… Read more »