Welcome back to the Weekly Links Roundup on Pulse + Signal. This is the section every Friday where I pull together interesting links from the week that didn’t get covered here on the blog. Many of you know that I love information and wish I could clone myself to be in multiple places at once.Read… Read more »
This week, Alexandria, Virginia launched a new twist on challenge based citizen engagement with ACTion Alexandria. ACTion Alexandria is an online citizen engagement initiative, that on the surface looks similar to other online idea platforms such as UserVoice or IdeaScale. However, unlike these off-the-shelf solutions, ACTion Alexandria leveraged its history as an offline organizing groupRead… Read more »
After writing from From Briefing Notes to Govblogging, I got an email from Richard Akerman that contained the following nugget (internal link, contents reproduced with permission): “Another [worldview] is that every employee needs to construct and maintain an “awareness network” to monitor the rapidly-changing environment. Individualised, curated streams of google alerts, RSS feeds, news apps,Read… Read more »
Just because government is further behind the private sector when it comes to jumping on the Web 2.0 train doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of chatter about getting on board. I’ve heard things like “We need an app where citizens can take pictures of potholes or graffiti with their camera phone, geotag the location,Read… Read more »
As part of my Grumpy Old Man series, today I’m taking a look at the challenges that lie ahead of todays most widely hyped technology — cloud computing. Before government agencies can realize the benefits of cloud computing, a number of challenges must be overcome. Government information technology must conform to rules and regulations thatRead… Read more »
Justice Catherine Holmes, Jim O’Sullivan AC and Phillip Cummins commenced the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry today. Their Terms of Reference include the adequacy of equipment and communications systems. Written submissions are invited by 5.00pm, 11 March 2011. The final report is due by January 2012. My postings on the January 2010 Australian Floods mayRead… Read more »
(Photo Credit http://transportgraphics.blogspot.com) Would love to have all communicators, technologists, planners or anyone else even marginally interested in government and it’s role in transportation come join #localgovchat tonight at 9 EST. We want to discuss how communications, visualizations and other data can help improve how residents get around from state to state, city to city,Read… Read more »
Engagement is important when it comes to using Twitter but, you have a day job, right? A good way to keep your social network outlets up to date with fresh content is to get some help from RSS feeds from topics of your interest and other social media tools. For example on my Identika TwitterRead… Read more »
The awesomeChris Dorobek just posted the list of FCW Fed 100 winners on Scribd Winners include a number of folks active in social media (Twitter/GovLoop) such as GovLoop Fantasy Football champ Neil Bonner, GL Rockstar Mary Davie, NASA Linda Cureton, SSA Frank Baltman (prolific Twitterer), Alec Ross, Bev Godwin…More below Federal Computer Week’s 2011 FedRead… Read more »
Previously I grouped 8 SFIA Skills for an Electronic Document and Records Management course at the ANU under three headings:Strategy & architecture Information strategyInformation managementInformation policy formationInformation content publishingBusiness change Business change managementBusiness analysisSolution development and implementation Systems developmentData analysisDatabase/ Original post