Tips/Tricks from NASA on Social Media: Want to host a tweetup? Center around event/conference Set up registration website Plan activities – things to see/touch, brief presentations, people to meet Interact with tweeters Be techno-ready electricity, wi-fi, cell access Share the tweetup experience Took a long time to get Internet access to Spacestation -lots of worriesRead… Read more »
My collegue, author and former public servant Bill Eggers, has just completed some great new research that helps illustrate the evolution of government from a data publisher to a development platform for generating maximum public value. You can view the 44 page report here: http://bit.ly/c1AdGh Click on “Unlocking Government” for the report and a seriesRead… Read more »
Prepared in Plano Internal challenges-legal – establish a workable policy -PIO – empower PIO-Records – Policy for record keeping, who keeps them, how does your legal requirements overlap-Credibility/Verification – Use widgets on official site, come up with logo or name that is persona, post links to your media sites to show authenticity External Challenges -MaliciousRead… Read more »
There is so much information out there on Twitter, how do you find the information you need? The simple answer is to use hashtags, but which ones? Below is a list of my favorite hashtags to follow when planning travel and conferences. Please feel free to add any that I may have missed. Travel: #traveltuesdayRead… Read more »
I watched the People’s Politician over the weekend via the BBC iPlayer and started to think about whether “Voting” was a real measure of success of whether people feel engaged or not? In the episode we saw Ann Widdecombe Conservative MP for Maidstone get given a camera to do her first podcast and the questionRead… Read more »
Inspired by the excellent Joanne Jacobs at the recent Likeminds event in Exeter to think more about the role of games and game play in solving problems and creating solutions. I started to think about how Government in general could be seen as a game so that we could not only engage people in theRead… Read more »
Brown creates one UK.gov website to rule them all Centralised ‘dashboard’ to save lots of money By Chris Williams • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 22nd March 2010 12:11 GMT The government has announced plans for a personalised web page for every UK citizen to access all public services online in aRead… Read more »
The USGS has become Twitter’s first-ever Government case study on their Twitter 101 for Business page. The account highlighted is the @USGSted account (Twitter Earthquake Detector). The snippet from the site: One of the U.S. Geological Survey’s unique responsibilities is the monitoring and reporting of earthquakes, which affect the daily lives of people around theRead… Read more »
This guidance was written for a UK audience, but local politicians from anywhere will find everything bar a few legal bits useful. People are now turning first to the web to find everything from information about days out, entertainment, shopping, to making connections with friends and colleagues. People expect to be able to comment andRead… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! The Obama administration will soon relaunch USASpending.gov, the government Web site that lets taxpayers track how federal dollars are spent each year. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra gave The Eye a sneak peak at the new site on Monday (see screengrabs above and below). The Office of Management and Budget has worked onRead… Read more »