Communications

Capitol Circle is now live!

Capitol Circle is now live. It’s a “Bloomberg for politics” concept that aggregates twitter, RSS, and the web to deliver real-time political news as it breaks across the Internet. It’s searchable and filterable as well. Please let me know what you think of the site, I’m looking for feedback to iterate the product and takeRead… Read more »

Live Webcast: Media as Global Diplomat II – New Findings on the Science of Media & Conflict

Today the Washington, DC-based United States Institute of Peace (USIP) will host a symposium and live webcast on the impact of New media Now media on global conflict resolution. * Are social media tools and technologies at the core of statecraft in the 21st century? * What do new research findings suggest is the impactRead… Read more »

An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler

This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions. Steve Ressler, the founder of GovLoop, will be leaving his day job with the Department of Homeland Security,Read… Read more »

Using Social Networking to Reach the Public

DC Public Safety Blog at http://media.csosa.gov/blog Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Using Social Networking to Reach the Public September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment From “Community Policing Dispatch,” August, 2009, US Department of Justice In world history there have been few fundamental shifts in how people move through society, but right now such aRead… Read more »

Records Keeping in a Web 2.0 World

Time was when a lot of government agencies, including a few I worked for, kept their records in the equivalent of an old shoebox containing a few old spiralbound notebooks left in the care of that secretary, whats-her-name, who retired four years ago… Yeah. With the advent of e-mail a few decades ago records keepingRead… Read more »

Idea generation: who cares? (I mean, seriously?!)

I’ve been thinking about and studying the whole “here comes everybody” phenomenon recently. And, while I’m not going to offer any definitive conclusions, I thought I would offer a mish-mash of some of my personal observations and findings: first, to see if any resonate and, second, to see what I can learn from others whoRead… Read more »

Social Media Workshop – Politics4All.com

The Business Council of Alabama (BCA), the Alabama Democratic Party, the Alabama Republican Party, the Alabama Council of Association Executives, and Politics4All.com are joining forces to host a workshop on social media. The workshop will be held on Thursday, October 8 from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Montgomery. ThisRead… Read more »

Mixing Up Some Awesome Sauce – GovLoop’s Sale to GovDelivery

By now you’ve most likely read the news stories and early blogs about GovDelivery’s acquisition of GovLoop, the government social networking site that has rapidly grown from zero to nearly 20,000 members in just over a year. GovLoop founder Steve Ressler broke the news on GovLoop via a blog post, and GovDelivery CEO Scott BurnsRead… Read more »