I’m live-tweeting at @militarytweets if you want to follow the stream. Alan Murray of WSJ is interviewing Craig Newmark about his passion for good government and work helping Gov’t — particularly DoD — embrace social media and the power and effectiveness of social networking. Here’s a link to more plus a photo. Podcast coming later:Read… Read more »
A lot has been written about the need for security, after all it’s an important and well recognised issue, but I see very little about the topic of people needing privacy. Yet in many ways citizens are having their privacy compromised in ways that I doubt that they even realise. This leads to the veryRead… Read more »
Today a growing number of military units and government organizations have an official presence in social media and especially on Facebook. Unfortunately, it seems that most organizations just seem to think that being there is good enough. Their fan pages are nothing more than a place to push the same old news releases and selfRead… Read more »
from adrielhampton.com – Last evening I was reminded about a point Canadian govie Nick Charney made in a recent chat – tools like Twitter are fantastic for connecting those in government (or anywhere, really) who are “wired to share.” That resonates with my strong opinion that “Government 2.0″ is about a culture, not any particularRead… Read more »
This is a revision of an email I sent to a colleague. Some names will be redacted because I’m not sure if they would like to be posted here. K, I’m sharing this with Mark Patrick at Joint Staff because he’s a smart guy and may have some good stuff to say. He lives ECMRead… Read more »
We need creative people to help the Federal Wave program. We did put ourselves on Facebook to lay out things, since everyone can get there. If everyone would get on board – that would really help this program. What’s the link between the two; Fed Wave and creative people? And how is Fed Wave differentRead… Read more »
I had a conversation with some folks at my shop on Thursday afternoon as the great ‘balloon boy’ fiasco unfolded about why it was such compelling watching. We all kind of felt stupid about being sucked into such a strange story and the conversation made me realize just why it was such a powerful newsRead… Read more »
Today is a big day in my life and I’m really excited to share it with you – the GovLoop Community. Mr. GovLoop himself (aka Steve Ressler) has asked me to join his team as the GovLoop Community Manager! So what does that mean? It means I’ve resigned from the Graduate School and will dedicateRead… Read more »
Mr. Mucio, our computer science teacher, began a class of this it sorts things out: – The Man needed to count your sheep and for that it began to join stones according to the amount of sheep that possessed and the data processing was created like this. In a simple way we learned, with thisRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” I was in Las Vegas this week to participate in BlogWorld 2009 with some of the industry’s biggest big-wigs in social media. I really like going to conferences like this and next week’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco because they help me escapeRead… Read more »