Communications

The Age of Innocence

The majority of my reading consists of science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, and adventure novels. However, I do get a yen for classical literature from time to time. A short while ago I reread “The Good Earth” by Pearl Buck, a novel I had to read in high school as we were studying Nobel Prize authors.Read… Read more »

Project of the Week – National Ocean Service Podcasts Diving Deeper and Making Waves

This week, GovLooper’s Kate Nielsen and Troy Kitch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) National Ocean Service help us learn about the latest NOAA-NOS news and a wide variety of ocean topics with their new dual podcasts, Making Waves and Diving Deeper. These two mark the National Ocean Services’ first entrance into theRead… Read more »

“Sweet GovTweets” Sunday 22nd March 2009 Edition

Apologies in advance for errors. @govloop: 4 Steps 2 Build Transparency in New World Gov- @kpkfusion http://tinyurl.com/d5wlcj #govloop #gov20 #opengov @govloop: Listen live Gov 2.0 Blogtalkradio w/ OReilly @adrielhampton @planetrussell in 10 minutes http://tinyurl.com/d8vt6f #opengov #gov20 #govloop @adrielhampton “Making gov cool, finally”? (@municibid) #gov20 #opengov @adrielhampton: Talking live to @timoreilly: http://www.gov20radio.com #gov20 #opengov http://tinyurl.com/cp96nr @Lyne_Robichaud:Read… Read more »

An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog

This post also appeared on my primary blog, “Social Media Strategery.” When I first started “Social Media Strategery” six months ago, one of my inspirations was the TSA’s “Evolution of Security” blog. Along with Intellipedia, which showed me that IT security fears could be overcome, the Evolution of Security blog showed me that something evenRead… Read more »

“Sweet GovTweets” – Saturday 21st March 2009 Edition

Apologies for errors. Attempts to dedupe information, especially where those wily posters who use the same link but different descriptions. @meghan1018: Are you planning to call in to tomorrow’s #gov20 show w/guest @timoreilly? Please DM me the # your be calling from! http://bit.ly/41zgPP @adrielhampton: The revolution will be mashed up: http://bit.ly/17jAS8 #gov20 #govloop #opengov #CA10Read… Read more »

4 Steps To Building Transparency in “New World” government:

Government is truly entering a “new world” – one where citizen engagement matters. That is what transparency is really about. And that is why distributed transparency is important – it leads to effective engagement that truly builds citizen trust. So how do we achieve distributed or network transparency? In other words how do we dimensionalizeRead… Read more »

“Sweet GovTweets” – Friday 20th March 2009

(Republishing it since it disappears for some and not others.) Apologies for errors in advance: @you2gov: @wefollow #OpenGov #Gov20 #Politics @justgrimes: Good questions about archives, records management, digital preservation. Historical transparency is important #opengov http://bit.ly/AOFX9 @justgrimes: Archives & transparency; exactly what I’m writing about right now the importance and imperative of government web2.0 record keepingRead… Read more »

Measuring Gov 2.0 (via Web 1.0): Brookings

Originally posted at the GenerationShift blog. As I mentioned in this post, I am producing a blog series regarding the measurement of Web 1.0 in preparation for an upcoming presentation with Ari Herzog on Thursday, March 26. I originally blogged about the Brookings Study here on GovLoop on January 25. Consider this post a “PartRead… Read more »

Centralized Vs. Decentralized Organizations: The Starfish and The Spider

I just got done reading the book The Stafish and the Spider for one of my grad school classes on technology and knowledge management and a few thoughts came to mind… I intially really appreicated the vivid examples that the authors discussed in providing context for what a “starfish” vs. a “spider” looks like. ForRead… Read more »