Yearly Archives: 2010

De Maat on Teaching the Computer to Read Legal Text

Emile de Maat of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam has posted Teaching the Computer to Read Legal Text, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. de Maat describes the natural language processing techniques used at the Leibniz CenterRead… Read more »

Is Facebook’s New “Download Your Data” Government’s Record Management Answer?

Update: There’s more than just two new features. You can see a good summary here as well: http://www.maclife.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_new_facebook_features If you weren’t able to watch today’s live Facebook announcement, “Zuck” listed two major new options that will start rolling out to Facebook. The first one is a new Groups function. I won’t go into the detailsRead… Read more »

Up in the cloud!

Public Sector Partner Briefing – Government Track 27th of Sep London, Wonderful time of the year in London, drizzly pleasant weather – Fall is well on its way! MS campus in Reading is where partners from the UK and around the world were invited to a full-day public sector partner briefing. The agenda included plenaryRead… Read more »

eMetrics Day 3: Do they just not care about Government, or do they just not get it?

[No Government/Non-commerce track in today’s final day of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit in Arlington] Sitting in the Web Analytics Association membership meeting on the 3rd day of the eMetrics conference. Wondering if the WAA really doesn’t care about its Government members, or if they just don’t get how we’re different. Even the committee reportsRead… Read more »

Can the power of the Web help solve the world’s most pressing problems?

Gov 2.0 has often been defined by its utility to help citizens or agencies solve problems, either for individuals or the commons. That’s what the giants of the Web 2.0 era have been able to do successfully outside of the government world, and that’s the paradigm that many Gov 2.0 events have been exploring. InRead… Read more »

Project of the Week: Open Colorado

In honor of our Denver GovUp coming up tomorrow evening, GovLoop wanted to shine a spotlight on a sweet project coming out of the Rocky Mountains called Open Colorado. Launched just a couple months ago by Colorado Smart Communities, Open Colorado “seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data…drawing on the expertiseRead… Read more »

Great uses of Twitter at conferences

I had the pleasure of attending the Monitoring Social Media conference in Boston yesterday. While I was there to discuss Social CRM, I took the opportunity to listen to a number of other speakers. All of the speakers were great. However, Aafia Chaudhry, CEO, JuvoLab & Founding Partner, Noesis, did a really nice job presentingRead… Read more »