The Odwalla Plant a Tree program allows people to donate trees, free of charge, to local State Park systems Virginia residents don’t need to get down and dirty this summer to plant trees in our state parks. With the ease of a mouse click, the Odwalla Plant a Tree program allows you to donate aRead… Read more »
Here at EPA, we have many Twitter feeds. Most are run automagically via RSS feeds. I’m trying to figure out whether our main feed, @usepagov, should have a live person behind it who responds to people. I’m very concerned about the potential time demands, because EPA is involved in an enormous number of issues thatRead… Read more »
This has also been cross-posted on my primary blog, “Social Media Strategery.” Over the last few years between starting the social media practice at Booz Allen and getting involved with the broader Government 2.0 community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of different people, all with different motivations, frustrations, and aspirations. While sittingRead… Read more »
While searching for an enterprise micro-blogging tool for my own job, I ran across OraTweet; developed by Noel Portual. I contacted the developer to interview him, but he never responded. However, this tool has so much potential for those working with enterprise systems whom are looking for a micro-blogging solution, I felt it was stillRead… Read more »
With the wildfire growth of social media tools the buzz out there around any person/institution/company/product/etc is growing. Given this, the promotion ways of the past need to be reexamined. Simply pushing your company/product/institution/self out there without room for feedback, engagement, or participation doesn’t work as well as it did in years past when the publicRead… Read more »
The Interior Department’s inspector general has found widespread mishandling and tracking of highly valuable passports issued to department officials traveling overseas, alleging that in numerous instances employees violated federal privacy laws. Several expired passports could not be accounted for and inspectors also could not locate the passports once issued to Interior Secretary Gale Norton andRead… Read more »
Hope everybody gets to enjoy a day to reflect on all of the sacrifices that were made…. so that we can all have opinions, and facebook, and criticize our leaders, and trash-talk politics, and get a free education, and start up our own businesses, and run our households as we see fit, and do everythingRead… Read more »
You can’t follow Tim Berners-Lee on Twitter, but you can on identi.ca, a microblogging service that runs on open source software. And while I wouldn’t dream of giving up Twitter any time soon, an open source platform may offer some interesting options for governments. For example, could this software be used to run an internalRead… Read more »
A little uncensored sweet gov tweets….will streamline next edition. Campariman : Open Govt: 120 days since memo issued, good overview on Obama “open, transparent & participatory government” http://bit.ly/FpdUw #Gov20 quitzlipochtli : @georgholzer klingt gut. 🙂 #k2020 #opengov #pcg09 schneeengel : @georgholzer ich bin dabei… #k2020 #OpenGov #pcg09 georgholzer : Würde am #pcg09 gerne ganz kurzRead… Read more »
You’ve seen a lot of posts from me regarding the social media activities of other agencies. Never have I highlighted an endeavor from my own organization. Well, this post changes everything! Here’s the backdrop: Throughout its history, the Graduate School has always adapted in creative ways to the changing needs of government. A few weeksRead… Read more »