Yearly Archives: 2010

What’s Next?

A couple of weeks ago, after I’d cut loose with some ideas for the government web community (and witnessed the weary and wary looks on my web colleagues’ faces), my good friend Bev Godwin bailed me out by saying, “as long as I’ve known Candi, she’s always asked ‘what’s next?’ We need to keep askingRead… Read more »

HHS CTO Park announces HealthData.gov, talks about new VA Blue Button

Have you met Todd Park? He’s the first CTO of Health and Human Services Department of the United States. Earlier this week, he announced the upcoming launch of HealthData.gov, a new website that will publish open government health data. If you’re unfamiliar with Park, I interviewed him at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo: Park andRead… Read more »

Facebook….King of the World?

Ran across a great visual display last night highlighting where all the social activity actually occurs (created by xkcd). This visual is extremely cool for a variety of reasons, but mostly because it focuses on the activity, or dialog, related to the social platforms instead of the pure number of users. Couple other notes ofRead… Read more »

The Federal Coach: Talking with the Smithsonian’s Maestro

As the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, part of the federal government, Wayne Clough leads the world’s largest museum and research complex with 19 museums, 9 research centers, the National Zoo and research activities in more than 90 countries. Clough previously served as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years. Ranked fourthRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: October 8, 2010

Gadi Ben-Yehuda People are paying to play a game while it’s being written. What are the lessons for government? Perhaps that people are willing to pay for unfinished services provided that their input has an impact on the final product. National Public Radio (NPR) released the results of its Twitter survey. What does the profileRead… Read more »

Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step Four, Co-ordinator

If most of government, and Gov 2.0, is about ordinary people doing ordinary (though necessary, ennobling, and underappreciated) things, Coordinators are the people who are doing extraordinary things. Both within government and beyond it, coordinators are the ones who are looking at the big picture and creating the tools that co-deliverers and creators use. WhatRead… Read more »