Q&A with Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary for the Digital Economy Branch, Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy

CeBIT Australia recently spoke with Mia Garlick, Assistant Secretary for the Digital Economy Branch, Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy. Mia was also a member of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce. We asked Mia: Please briefly describe your role and responsibilities in the organisation. Having participated in the Gov 2.0 Taskforce process, and seenRead… Read more »

‘Ning Everywhere’ Means More GovLoop for You

Ning, the social networking platform that power GovLoop and tens of thousands of other communities, is getting a big upgrade, and that means more ways to interact with friends and content from the government social network. In San Francisco on Tuesday night, Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal announced “Ning Everywhere,” a new API roll out thatRead… Read more »

Mr. GovLoop Turns 30! Wish Steve Well Today (10/13)!

It’s hard to believe, but our favorite Rising Star, Young Government Leaders co-creator and GovLoop Founder has reached the BIG 3-0. I got to know Steve a couple years ago over a beer (or two)…like many of you, I’m sure! And it wasn’t just any beer…it had to be Yuengling – true to his UPennRead… Read more »

Quantifying your resume

Heather Krasna is the author of Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, and the Director of Career Services at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. I work with many job seekers who conduct research or do counseling, jobs which are quite hard to quantify–but there’sRead… Read more »

CB2: Social Alerting With Influence

I’ve been going about alerting all wrong. I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert in the crisis alerting space, having built or deployed SMS, FM and satellite text and video notification systems in the past. I’ve also been fairly vocal on how their inherent limitations of cost, public adoption rate, and lack ofRead… Read more »

Are You Dealing with the “Dark Web”?

Admittedly, Dr. G (that’s me) knows very little about cybersecurity…and I know I am not alone! Most Americans have no idea what they’re doing online to place themselves and our country at risk. So I’ve been doing a little research on cybersecurity, and the folks at Cisco have been a wealth of resources and educationRead… Read more »

Weekly Research and Best Practices

ResearchSocial networks are most popular Gov 2.0 tool (09/2010) – Hewlett-Packard surveyed 103 executives from federal, state and local government agencies about their use of Web 2.0 Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they used social networking tools, followed by blogs, video, government-specific networks, podcasts, wikis, syndicated feeds, and virtual worlds. http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/hp-government-it-survey-report-government-20 A community of fans,Read… Read more »

Monitoring and Measuring the FCC

Here is a recent interview with Dan McSwain, New Media Fellow @ the FCC. I asked him questions pertaining to how the FCC monitors social media. 1. What social media channels (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) do you use in your outreach? “First, let me preface this by saying that other FCC employees than myselfRead… Read more »

CALLING ALL ARTISTS: POTTERS, PAINTERS, SCULPTERS, MUSICIANS, Craftspeople of all description….CFCNCA Wants You..

Dear OCE, The CFC annual campaign is off and running! Last year, one of our own very talented artisans, David Schnare, held an auction of his beautiful pottery. We were so happy with the auction that OECA has decided to expand the idea. WHAT: Arts and Crafts Fair Members of OECA donate something you createRead… Read more »

GSA launches Apps.gov NOW, a platform for open government software

Today at Fedtalks in Washington, the General Services Administration’s director of citizen engagement, Gwynne Kostin, talked about its new open government platform, Apps.gov NOW. Apps.gov NOW launched in beta in August but the Gov 2.0 community hasn’t heard much about it until this morning. The new platform, available at citizen.apps.go, allows federal employees to chooseRead… Read more »

Yearly Archives: 2010