Apologies for errors in advance: @sradick: A challenge to the attendees of #gov20camp (http://tinyurl.com/c7ce2q) #gov20 @krishnan: Redhat tries to push Open Government using Open Source and Open Formats. http://bit.ly/3anYNy #opensource #opengov @conniecrosby: in Open Government session at #mesh09 #opengov with @remarkk @conniecrosby: @danielrose why we use visual models to explain abstracts-words carry baggage; getting ridRead… Read more »
This post has been cross-posted to my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” Inspirational. Fun. Chaotic. Stimulating. Profound. Surreal. Exhausted. Excited. These are the words that I’ve used to describe the inaugural Government 2.0 Camp held this past weekend at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Georgetown. While an event of this magnitude andRead… Read more »
Republished from eGovAU. Twitter has emerged as a significant channel for breaking news, announcement and discussions on political, social, environmental and commercial topics. Over the last three years the service has grown to over 25 million users globally, including many senior business, political and entertainment figures. In fact it’s been the fastest growing online channel,Read… Read more »
Hi folks, First, congratulations on Govloop! This is an excellent resource and I was thrilled that it was truly open to the government community at large. I serve as a Deputy Director of eCommunications at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and have had the pleasure of meeting several US counterparts andRead… Read more »
I don’t know if you have given much thought to using Ads on Facebook. I really hadn’t, but got curious last week. We’re not using Facebook at Housing and Urban Development yet, so I thought of another way to test this capability. I put on one of my other hats: I serve on a non-profitRead… Read more »
You’ll need to be logged into www.communities.idea.gov.uk to follow these links Yesterday we had a lot of discussion about what it means to be local and providing a local view to people. We also had views from local politicians about using social media and how it helped to humanise their political persona and support informalRead… Read more »
About six months ago, I started reading a blog called the Buzz Bin which had all sorts of great tips and interviews regarding social media. One thing led to another and Geoff Livingston (who maintains the site) joined GovLoop, started participating, and eventually we met at Gov 2.0 BarCamp a few weeks back. I thoughtRead… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance: @joab_jackson: Data.gov to officially launch in late May 2009: http://www.data.gov #GovLoop @jefferyrlsmith: #CivSource Morning News Update 4-6 http://twurl.nl/w0n1yt #gov20 @jdp23: #votereport India: citizen-driven election monitoring for the 2009 Indian general elections … very cool! (via @nancyscola) #gov20 @nonprofit_tech: Super Excited and a Tad Scared. OpenCamp-Madison in 12Days: http://sn.im/opencamp-reg Sat, 18Read… Read more »
I was reading this morning’s Washington Post about the difficulty Organizing for America, “the 13 million-strong grass-roots network built during (the Obama) presidential campaign” was having in having a legislative impact. It brought to mind the similar network of that didn’t come through for 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary contender Howard Dean and it also broughtRead… Read more »
Welcome to the first update of Councillors connected: the social media online conference (You will first need to be logged into www.communities.idea.gov.uk to view these links). We have a great line up of speakers this morning, but this conference is really all about you. Feel free to ask questions or start your own topics onRead… Read more »