This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION We have all experienced this: a round of discussions generating wonderful ideas, with a promise to reconvene and determine next action items. The problem is those action items rarely become a reality, because there was never a sufficient amount of follow-through to act on thoseRead… Read more »
We are very fortunate to have a very clever developer on hand who created some incredibly useful Twitter tools for us. Even better, we put them out as open source code on GitHub for you to use. But what do these tools do and why should you be interested in them? Backup your tweets onRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from Wired to Share In case you missed my excessive tweets and Facebook posts over the past few days, it’s now public that I’m leaving City of San Francisco to join Jim Gilliam and Jesse Haff’s 3dna, the company behind Act.ly and NationBuilder. I will be the “chief organizer” for NationBuilder, evangelizing the tool,Read… Read more »
LocalGovCamp isn’t far away – just over a month. So far 150 tickets have gone and we have another 50 which we are looking to distribute in a new way to get a few different faces along! So we’ll have 200 of the most innovative and creative people in local government in one place, onRead… Read more »
Allegheny County is using workflow for their purchasing process, here’s how this investment has helped them…
INPUT analyst Randi Powell reports on North Carolina’s newly-proposed budget. North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue presented her proposed biennial state budget (FY 11 – 13) on February 17, 2011. Like most governors, Perdue’s budget focused on cutting government spending and creating jobs. Despite the fact that North Carolina is one of eight states retaining aRead… Read more »
Federal sustainability professionals, facilities managers and anyone concerned about the efficiency of federal buildings will be to learn that the Veterans Administration has created a website for its Green Management Programs. The site allows users to view VA green facilities projects by state and at times provides a direct link to a project fact sheet.Read… Read more »
I’m going to start a new experiment with this blog. 5 minute posts. 5 minutes to write them, hopefully only 5 minutes to read them. I’ve been talking about apps a lot recently. I’ve just read Digital by Default by SOCITM in which it states that it’s little flash up survey dialogue box responses sayRead… Read more »
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Head of Social Media Communities 4 OGTV.pdf Civil servants. Non-profits, utilities, Authorities, corporations, and government agencies. All need to navigate the new media. In addition to effectively promoting cause campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and public engagement drives with persuasive Facebook and Twitter campaigns, our government social media team, led by digital communications specialist Stephanie Noble ofRead… Read more »