Communications

Join Us – Announcing the GovLoop May Blog Series

This month GovLoop will be rolling out a blog series, exploring a challenge that we hear all the time in government – government operates in silos. This month we will be having a series of blogs and discussions centered around this topic, exploring the impact of siloed information within each one of our communities onRead… Read more »

Crowdsourcing funding, Bashing the President on Facebook could get you Fired, and How to be Intimate at Conferences…

Crowdsourcing funding, Fired for Bashing the President on Facebook, and Intimate at Conferences… by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Tuesday May 1st, 2012: Crowd-funding. It is now legal and might just be a way to fund small businesses that could focus on government challenges. We’ll talk to the man behind WeFunder. Can you beRead… Read more »

Why internet users and social media users are now essentially the same thing

According to Internet World Stats, there are now 2.3 Billion Internet users on our planet. That’s approximately 33% of the world’s population. Growth over the last decade has been registered at 528%. The growth rate is only expected to increase during this decade. With that in mind, consider these recent ComScore findings: In October 2011,Read… Read more »

How to get intimate at an industry conference — it’s not what your thinking…

With all the brouhaha over conferences following the GSA situation, it makes the time you spend at conferences even more important. There was a time just a few years ago when people would say that conferences were so 1990s — a relic of the past to be swallowed up by online interactions. That hasn’t provenRead… Read more »

Your 7 Gov’t Stories: Need medical assistance? DARPA wants an app. for that

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 1st of May 2012 Congress is getting closer to a fina transportation bill to maintain highway and transit aid. Unless the House and Senate can agree, funding ends June 30. But Federal News Radio says election year pressures are driving Republicans and Democrats to findRead… Read more »

BlueLightCamp: Weekend Camping (Pt1)

If you’re interested in use of social media by emergency responders, or ‘unconferences’, or both, you might like this blog post about BlueLight Camp in the UK: First thing in the morning on Sunday 15th April there was barely a cloud in the sky above Manchester. The sun shone, the sky was blue, and IRead… Read more »

The Power of One

By Dave Worsell, Director, Government Solutions, GovDelivery UK I was recently asked to present to the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) for a “Lunch and Learn” session. The purpose of the presentation was to demonstrate the importance of proactive public sector communications and some of the risks and pitfalls when providing proactive communication on aRead… Read more »