My natural state of being is to listen rather than talk. I’ve always been that annoying kid since age 2 asking questions – who, what, where, why, and when? It’s been an interesting transition as GovLoop has taken off as I’ve been asked to speak more which puts me a little out of my naturalRead… Read more »
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) responds to more than 100,000 questions each year. Regularly asked questions become Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NLM Reference and Consumer Health FAQs are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqref.html . We review and update our FAQs frequently. FAQs often include national and international government agencies and non-profit organizations. One of our FAQs isRead… Read more »
Greetings GovLoopers! UPDATE as of 11/8/09: Based on initial feedback last week, please see the various changes in BOLD below. In talking to many of the social media practitioners in and around government agencies, one of their stated best practices is the development and display of a solid policy that provides guidelines for engagement onRead… Read more »
The dominant first year theme of the new Administration has been the importance of achieving “transparency” to build citizen trust. The transparency ideal—inarguable in principle—is difficult in execution. To this end, most of the available leadership bandwidth has been consumed by public promotion of a data centric portal strategy as a means to achieve transparency.Read… Read more »
Whats your favorite Gov Holiday? 16.1% Columbus Day 35.5% Veterans Day 14.5% Presidents Day 33.9% MLK Day
Twitter has started its mass roll out of lists and I just created my first of public sector people (and hangers on) I follow. I laughed out loud when I clicked through to see I’d been already added onto 28 existing lists – and what those list titles are. According to some of my followers,Read… Read more »
Blood Donations Needed Update – Friday , 11/6/09, 23:30 EST Blood donations for U.S. Army personnel wounded in the Ft. Hood shooting incident are being accepted at Scott & White Healthcare’s Blood Center in Temple, TX on Saturday, 11/7 from from 9:00 AM – noon local time and again on Monday, 11/9 starting at 8:00Read… Read more »
I’ve made a few updates to socialfeds.com that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. These include adding the videos from the Gov 2.0 Expo and Summit 2009 and I also added GovFresh to the lineup. What do you think? Tell me what you like/dislike/want added!
November 5th is GOSCON the Government Open Source Conference, and I’ll be there. In fact, I’m planning to volunteer a little of my time at the Drupal Booth, so stop by and say hello. Heck, you can even ask me about the http://go.usa.gov site. I promise, I will answer you. I’m also planning to headRead… Read more »
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) responds to more than 100,000 questions each year. Regularly asked questions become Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NLM Reference and Consumer Health FAQs are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqref.html . We review and update our FAQs frequently. FAQs often include national and international government agencies and non-profit organizations. NLM is often asked theRead… Read more »