I will spare you the pleasantries, and cut directly to the chase: social media behind the firewall does not present any new management challenges in the public sector. If you were a strong manager before the age of social media, you are a strong manager in the era of social media. Conversely, if you wereRead… Read more »
So I’m in Philly this week at Management of Change Conference. I’ve been tweeting away #moc10 but also took some notes. Here’s my notes from the speech by Chris Painter, Senior Director for Cybersecurity Change in threat landscape -Criminals in early 90s were mostly individuals for their gratifications -Now – Transnational criminal groups – goalRead… Read more »
Greetings from our nation’s capital, home to over 2,000 of our nation’s 7,600 trade associations. No surprise, as one of the main functions of a trade association is to influence public policy. Add to that hefty number all our regional and state sub-associations, and the legions of lobbyists and industrial relations consultants and… well, youRead… Read more »
Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the latest at Gov 2.0 Radio. We’re still a by-the-seat-of-the-pants operation, but our guests and great co-hosts (Steve Ressler of GovLoop and Steve Lunceford of GovTwit) more than make up for my scant production skills. I also want to take this opportunity to thanks all ofRead… Read more »
While OZloop is not as big as Govloop, given the concerns about Facebook we have dumped them. Up to individuals what they do of course. When Facebook decides to behave, as it were, like a good corporate citizen (dare I say social citizens), then obviously this can be reconsidered. Frankly, there is too much atRead… Read more »
Posted on Ozloop – A plague on all your houses I am advocating that Facebook be compelled to indicate that all these sites are not official. The major reason being that citizens need to be confident about engaging with sites active in the Gov 2.0 space. This latest twist from Facebook has the potential toRead… Read more »
Professor Roberto Fragale Filho of Universidade Federal Fluminense Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Direito and Fundação Getúlio Vargas will present a paper entitled Increasing Judicial Transparency: When Brazilian Court TV Officially Meets YouTube, at ECEG 2010: The 10th European Conference on eGovernment, to be held 17-18 June 2010, at the University of Limerick, inRead… Read more »
I just submitted a draft Wikipedia entry about GovLoop. I’ve made a couple of small submissions to the Internet Movie Database over the years, but this is my first go at Wikipedia, and I’ve very little confidence in the result. Anyone with Wikipedia experience is encouraged to scoot over there and make it better. TheRead… Read more »
Government and the private sector had a famous competion to see who could map the human genome. Now we have social media helping both with runnaway oil in the Gulf area. People are providing observations and also solution ideas for the crisis. For example, Gulfcoastspill.com has been setup to help. The site was developed withRead… Read more »
If you take a look at current television commercials or tech blogs, you’ll quickly find a great deal of attention focused on smartphones and the mobile applications (apps for short) that are built on top of them. While traditionally focused on the Blackberry-dominated business user niche, smartphones made the shift to the mainstream after Apple’sRead… Read more »