GovLoop’s Top 5 categories can often get people responding enthusiastically. I recall that the top places to have a Government Job fired up personal responses. Recently some of us have been thinking of the reasons that people cite for not starting or buying into Open Government. So we thought that sharing some Top 5 ExcusesRead… Read more »
One year ago, I published a post entitled “Next Generation Government: Mobile, Measurable and Malleable.“ As the Next Generation of Government Summit fast approaches, I thought I’d dust off this blog post and play it again to spark discussion in advance of the event. I’m going to run it as a series – breaking itRead… Read more »
Great Article by Matt Marshal at VentureBeat.com Russia is the sixth-largest economy in the world, but it’s also a country relatively untouched by foreign investors, especially investors in technology. Could Russia potentially be the home of the next massive tech boom? The short answer is: No way. At least not anytime soon. That’s the conclusionRead… Read more »
By Ed O’Keefe and Jon Cohen Looks like the potential negative impact of the BP oil spill might be felt well beyond the White House, Interior Department and Minerals Management Service. Though Americans generally give negative reviews to the federal government and BP for the response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, it appears theRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with abstract submission deadline of 29 August 2010 and full paper submission deadline of 12 September 2010 5 September 2010 — has been issued for JURIX 2010: The 23rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, to be held 16-17 December 2010 at the University of Liverpool Department ofRead… Read more »
Best Practices 2010: The New Face of Value. is now available in a PDF version. Best Practices is a collaborative document that is put out annually on a specific topic of interest to government libraries and includes content submitted by government librarians and community leaders with an interest in government libraries. The 2010 edition includesRead… Read more »
Ogilvy Worldwide and Netvibes developed this tool in January, although I discovered it today. Selection of RSS feeds evidently is customizable if one sets up an account on Netvibes. This could be the best English-language aggregation of Word of Mouth marketing sources. I think studying these sources can help us motivate employees to engage inRead… Read more »
The 2010 World eParliament Report is now available. The report — produced by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament — presents the results of a 2009 survey “of 264 chambers of unicameral and bicameral parliaments in 188 countries and [] two regional parliaments. 134 responses were received […].” The survey addressed six aspects ofRead… Read more »
This is a cross-posting from Camden Council’s (UK) blog, where I also blog. If you wish to receive updates on my research into government communication online, please join LGEO Research Facebook Page. Link to original post Camden exploring and learning from online neighbourhoods Recently, Camden’s webteam has been talking to Will Perrin, Founder of ‘TalkRead… Read more »
Friday’s is a day for OGTV to catchup on blogs, postings, and review of our twitter account. http://www.twitter.com/opengovtv I thought in light of the upcoming Digital Capital Week, that this topic could be incorporated into one of the panels. After reading this on the twitter account, and reflecting on some of the Open Government DirectiveRead… Read more »