Dueling Books Reflect Procurement Experts’ Personalities Self-published books used to be the domain of the mediocre and the desperate. Mostly they were low-rent affairs, cheaply produced. They served pretty much the vanity of their publishers, and looked it. No more. Nowadays would-be authors have an astonishing variety of online social tools to spread the wordRead… Read more »
Never in the history of our country have citizens had a more direct line to the President of the United States. Social Media and other Government 2.0 technologies, combined with a desire to be more transparent, have opened up channels for all of us. Last Thursday and Friday, for example, Press Secretary Gibbs spent 30Read… Read more »
2010 has been a tough year for state and local governments. From furloughs to layoffs to cutting services, the budget situation is dire. It’s pretty simple when you have a budget shortfall. You have two options – cut costs, increase revenue. Most of the focus has been on cutting costs but I think there shouldRead… Read more »
OK, holidays are nearing an end; and I’m back to thinking about government communications and customer service. What a year it’s been! Great progress in some areas, like social media. Modest progress toward our long-time goal to make top customer tasks easier to find and use. Not much progress at all (in fact, slippage) inRead… Read more »
Hallo, My Love America, liebes Let`s Move Team international,, wir, unsere Let`s Move Group haben 2010 viel erreicht. Ich bedanke mich ganz herzlich bei allen Beteiligten in den vielen Ländern. Besonderen Dank gilt dem Präsidenten der USA Barack Obama und der First Lady Michelle Obama, unserer First Lady Bettina Wulff, unserem Europaabgeordneten Dr. Dieter Lebrecht.Read… Read more »
This morning, the White House new media team tried something a bit different: live questions and answers on Twitter, with Roberts Gibbs (@PressSec) replying to users with their @ handles. I was happy to be one of them. I wrote up a quick story using Storify, the online media curatio tool, but I can’t embedRead… Read more »
Dear Santa, I’ve been pretty good this year. I completed a year of public service through AmeriCorps, I started Graduate School at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, and I moved out of my parents house. So, this year I am not asking for much, just that the City of Syracuse become a beta city. “Beta City”Read… Read more »
The Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) is a recent, notable, law-related, citizens’ participation effort. The CIR convenes a representative group of Oregon citizens to devote one week to learning about, deliberating about, and voting on a proposed Oregon ballot initiative. Statements expressing the group’s votes, and the stated reasons for their votes, are then includedRead… Read more »
Citizen Engagement at NASA View more presentations from Nick Skytland. NASA Ames will be hosting a Tweetup February 11, 2011! The event will provide NASA Twitter followers the opportunity to speak with scientists and Center leadership. The Tweetup will include a “meet and greet” session to allow participants to mingle with fellow Tweeps and someRead… Read more »
With a population of less than 5,000 and a median household income of around $50,000, Manor, Texas, is an unlikely place to find the cutting edge of government e-participation technologies. But thanks to a young and enterprising Assistant City Manager (Dustin Haisler, now of Spigit), Manor has attracted significant investment from a variety of firmsRead… Read more »