It will be a year ago tomorrow that the Arcadia Police Department launched our News & Information Blog. The first post launching the Blog was on February 5, 2010. In this last year, we have had over 17,077 visits to the Blog from 7,357 unique visitors, with 27,890 pageviews, to date. We have brought youRead… Read more »
Facebook turns 7 years old today. Yes, it was out of Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm (probably wearing jeans and a sweatshirt), February 4, 2004 when it all started. Here are my top 7 thoughts on how it has revolutionized the world: 1. Gets your Grandparents using the internet. The fastest growing sector on Facebook isRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake created an open data initiative for Baltimore City: http://data.baltimorecity.gov/. Already, the most widely accessed feeds are Real Property Taxes, Parking Citations, and 311 Customer Service Requests – an interesting datum in itself. On a related note. . . Federal Computer Week cites “An Open Government Implementation Model: Moving to IncreasedRead… Read more »
(This is a cross-post from our blog at the Collaboration Project) IBM’s Center for the Business of Government recently released a report entitled “An Open Government Implementation Model: Moving to Increased Public Engagement.” The report presents the results of a review of several open government initiatives at the federal level and puts forward a four-stageRead… Read more »
Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight five members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. Also we want to know how or what you think killed it this week on the site so help us out with your comments below.Read… Read more »
Looxcie is a great device that lets you film exactly what you see. I’ve been testing one out for the last several weeks and have enjoyed learning about it and thinking about its potential uses in the enterprise. It has a lightweight, over the ear form factor that frees your hands and eyes up whileRead… Read more »
Many of us in the #gov20 space are trying to sort through the conundrum of #crisisdata, the result of seemingly endless Facebook posts, tweets, videos, photos and more. There’s great work going on at Crisis Commons and they’ve literally helped people and save lives. For those of us in emergency operations centers and joint informationRead… Read more »
Hey GovLoopers! We’ve heard several of you ask for it before and now it’s finally here: the “Like” button. It’s super simple to use. You find the 2 (Yes, I said 2!) “Like” buttons at the bottom of every post. The first “Like” button is for on GovLoop. The Second is the normal Facebook “Like”Read… Read more »
The federal government’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a new Web site and social media tools. Original post
In mid-July 2010, a firestorm of controversy came upon the town of Bell, California. A Los Angeles Times report found that Bell’s top officials – city manager, police chief, assistant city manager – were making two or three times the going rate for those positions elsewhere. The largely poor, largely Latino community had a cityRead… Read more »