Get your gov on! Candi Harrison: Customers Know Best – It’s Their Results that Count Andrea DiMaio: Open Government … To Whom? Sen. Kate Lundy: The Declaration of Open Government Kevin Merritt: Why Do We Need an Open Data Benchmark Study? Mike Loukides: App Inventor and the culture wars Andrew P. Wilson: The President’s SAVERead… Read more »
Perhaps one of the most popular blog topics in the working world is bagging on meetings. Perhaps some of them are even written on smart phones during meetings. No one is talking about the one-on-one with a boss or a colleague to work out an issue or smooth through wrinkles in an action plan, orRead… Read more »
DCWeek – 240 people to check out on Twitter Ideas for Seattle – Local Gov and UserVoice Paul Day’s Conversion-Driven Government: Social Media is Not You Job Open Government – a book review The Guardian: The Internet – Everything you ever need to know Internet.artizans: open data doesn’t empower communities Osrin.net: Understanding gov20 adoption, findingRead… Read more »
Join a conversation about social media and local government with Morris County, NJ, webmaster Carol Spencer, treasurer of the National Association of Government Webmasters. A veteran of IBM, Spencer calls social media the biggest revolution in technology since the personal computer. On gov’t agencies blocking social media, she says, “You’re blocking access to the wayRead… Read more »
Four for today: Dragan Varagic: Social Media Strategy Template Recommendations Open Data Euskadi – Basque Country’s Open Data site Adriel Hampton: Usability – Are Hyperlinks Destroying Your Readers’ Brains? Act.ly petition in favor of the Social Network Users Bill of Rights developed at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference
Steve Radick: Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media Stephen Collins: Government 2.0…it can be a reality David Forbes: I Do Not Believe in Collapse Kristy Fifelski: ‘Govsourcing’ the Reno.gov homepage Sarah Estes Cohen: Hybrid 2.0? How to leverage social media for emergency management and response Dan Slee: Social Photo – 11 groovy waysRead… Read more »
Just a few today: The Breaking Time: Toxic Privi-lege 10 Groups Call On Facebook To Make More Privacy Changes Jeffrey Levy: Atwitter About Reliability Kristy Fifelski: Video – Next Generation of Government Summit
NOAA launches an interactive mapping tool for the Gulf oil spill Heartbreaking Flickr set – Greenpeace’s Gulf Oil Spill photosServe.gov is seeking trained volunteers to help with the Gulf disasterThursday is Dumpthe Pump DaySan Francisco’s Stamen Design wins a $400,000 Knight News Challenge grant for its CityTracking visualizationsStamen wants your help voting up a requestRead… Read more »
A discussion with Mark Headd, an app developer and former govie, about civic apps. Mark Headd explains Open311 and accessing government services and lowering costs using Twitter, and gives ideas on how to engage developers around government civic apps contests. Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio
For at least that past two years, a tiny yet fast-growing group of folks who call themselves “Gov 2.0 advocates” has worked tirelessly to spread a message that emerging technologies, low-cost communications and digital culture can reshape government to be more collaborative, transparent, efficient and connected to its citizens. We have advocated for humanizing government,Read… Read more »