UPDATE on May 18: I’ll be delivering the presentation mentioned below in a free webinar on June 17, 3:00-4:30 EDT. Register now. I’m constantly asked “how did you convince your management to let you do this stuff?” That’s when I get a little sheepish, because my management has been pushing me for at least twoRead… Read more »
Good article on the use of social media in a public emergency: http://www.brianmcdaniel.org/2009/04/16/using-social-media-in-a-public-health-emergency/
In the past few weeks, the General Services Administration (GSA) has signed Terms of Service (TOS) agreements with a number of new media providers. The agreements signed by GSA were negotiated with the assistance of a number of federal agencies. The goal was to arrive at a TOS federal agencies would be comfortable enough withRead… Read more »
Originally published here I like Twitter, I think it, and other micro-blogging services have a lot to offer to the Local Government sector and could form a foundational plank of the whole LocGov2.0 sector. However, Twitter in Australia has a problem. It’s not about the lack of Social Media policies in Local Government, it’s notRead… Read more »
Originally published at FedManager’s E-Report on behalf of Young Government Leaders. In an essay entitled Federal Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Fixing Government College Recruitment released in mid-April, Stephen Anders (a Masters of Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School) recommended that Federal agencies should “increase their presence on social networking sites” like FacebookRead… Read more »
As the government community awakens to the value of social networking, they will reward, hire, promote people who can help them use social media to build relationships with clients, constituents, the public. Those who have used social media to develop their personal brand will become the all-stars. You are what you do. Karl Marx saysRead… Read more »
Click HERE for Episode 24 After great feedback from Alida, Mack and Morgan do a series of short stories this time due to Macks’s ADD. That doesn’t even help as Morgan has to take his pulse. This week we talk about filming cops in toilets, shocking the kids with Rover’s collar, LAPD getting paid toRead… Read more »
Wishing anyone and everyone in GovLoop who has a married family member in the military …. or who know of a military spouse in need of a hug or support, today is their day. Clearly, these families need our support every day but it’s nice there is one day of the year where they areRead… Read more »
Dabbling in written arts & technical wizardry – part 1 of 20 series National Writing Examiner, Donna L. Quesinberry Defining yourself as a writer involves introspection and self-awareness. To develop positive characteristics, and deliver uniquely satisfying written products, whether a novelist, journalist, technician, poet, or business writer… is to be a dabbler of the writtenRead… Read more »
Hello in the last week here in Mexico City, as many of you already know, there was an influenza outbreak, so in order to keep the people up to day with info, we developed the site www.influenza.gob.mx This site was part of the communication strategy of the Mexico City’s Government for the outbreak. In orderRead… Read more »