At the Foreign Office, we’ve made a small song and dance about the 3,000th tweet of the @foreignoffice twitter account. I can hide such vanity by noting that the 3,000th tweet is no morimportant than the 2,999 or the 3,001 (and less so if this blog is the subject). Yet it feels like a milestone,Read… Read more »
What if saving money and energy were as simple as the flip of a switch or the push of a button? It is! You can save millions of dollars (and our planet) by powering down your computer every day. But let’s start small. What if you were asked to power down just one day forRead… Read more »
The data, it connects us: David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization Austin Carr: Candidates Turn to YouTube for Geo-Specific Ad Campaigns for Mid-term Elections Sean Reilly: Future of rule making – Pilot project aims to increase public participation Andrew Wilson: Envisioning a More Social Future for Public Health Amelia Chen: Twitter is Buzziest inRead… Read more »
Below I have posted the links for those interested in catching up on some of my previous blogs, which mostly pre-date my joining GovLoop. Feel free to comment or criticize as you see fit. If it helps me (or anybody else) develop, then that’s a good result as far as I’m concerned. 20 July 2010:Read… Read more »
Notes From NAGWI “grew up” in IT when applications were flow-charted, lines of code written, compiled, debugged, compiled again, then deployed and hopefully documented. And the process took forever. Ask mainframe users. Early last year, when we launched social media in Morris County, I spent forever (in today’s terms… about a week) figuring out throughRead… Read more »
In recent years, social media has emerged as the hottest Internet phenomenon ever created. Yet, despite its prominence as the number one online activity, the promise that social media holds for governments, businesses, educators, and politicians has yet to be fully realized. This is due in large part to (1) a variety of incorrect mythsRead… Read more »
It’s not often that I read a study and really enjoy myself, maybe that’s because most of them go over my head, but this morning thanks to NextGov I stumbled on this: Who’s Social Media Savvy in the Senate View more presentations from GovLoop. The study breaks down which Senators truly harness social media andRead… Read more »
In the last decade, technology has transformed business, media and education. Telecommuting and web conferencing are increasingly common solutions to the problem of expensive travel. New applications like Twitter and Facebook make it easier for people, businesses and brands to connect. Leaving aside the question of paper books, there are few reasons to mourn theRead… Read more »
Do you remember the movie What Women Want? The one where Mel Gibson falls in the bathtub, electrocutes himself, and suddenly has the power to hear what women are thinking as they walk by? I remember being really struck by the possibility of someone hearing your thoughts (hey, I was 19). Another caveat: this wasRead… Read more »
OK. So the election over. Here we are with an emergent Gov 2.0 and Public Service 2.0. Time to revisit Politics 2.0. Given the nature of this post I want to be up front about my own political views. On social policy I sit somewhat ‘left of centre’. On the economic side of the equationRead… Read more »