Video is now available for the Law.gov Event at the U.S. House of Representatives held 25 May 2010 at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA. Click here for the conference program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scroll down to tweets from May 25, 2010). Click here for informationRead… Read more »
The same-sex partners of gay and lesbian federal workers may start applying for long term health care insurance starting July 1, the Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday. President Obama signed a memo last June extending some benefits to the same sex partners of federal workers, including access to the government’s Federal Long Term CareRead… Read more »
Kathy Sierra’s recent talk on Creating Passionate Citizens at the Gov 2.0 Expo pointed out something hilarious — the LOLCat Bible Translation Project. This talk was also brilliant because it pointed out: When you connect something people are passionate about (LOLCat Speak) with something people aren’t passionate about (the Bible), the passion can transfer overRead… Read more »
Dickens captured the state of all human condition in his pithy phase “It is the best of the times; it is the worst of the times.” It has always been so and always will be. A contemporary turn of the phrase is found in the question: “Is the glass half empty or half full?” GivenRead… Read more »
So you want to be a web superstar! Doesn’t everyone? Well, in government, administrations change, priorities change, and technologies change. But the formula for being a web communications superstar – the ones with the great (or greatly improving) websites, the best web organizations, doing the most exciting new things – doesn’t change. Web superstars followRead… Read more »
Previously Posted On GovFresh In the spirit of innovation, we are happy to announce the launch of the City of Manor in open beta. Manor launched in alpha in March of 1913, and has been operating as such for the last 97 years. What does open beta mean? Open beta is the stage of productRead… Read more »
Business Insider reported that Google has decided to stop using Microsoft products and are now giving its employees the option of either using Apple or Linux alternatives. While this news is worthy of coverage, and represents the loss of more than 20,000 Windows licenses to Microsoft, I doubt that many other companies will follow. WhileRead… Read more »
Fair Warning: The blog post below and associated information candidly depicts the manner in which an innovative change agent was sacrificed on the alter of maintaining the status quo. Recommend any change agents lacking a forceful personality turn back now. Failure to do so may lead you to question your ability to effect organizational change.Read… Read more »
Video is now available for Carl Malamud’s address entitled Law.Gov: America’s Operating System, Open Source, given at Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, on 27 May 2010, in Washington, DC, USA. The address details new findings about copyright restrictions on legal materials in the U.S., and offers an update on the progress of the Law.gov legal openRead… Read more »
(cross posted on CG-LIMS Project Blog on Intelink-U) I’m going to try to boil down three days of learnings from the Gov 2.0 Expo into a single post. It is written from the perspective of a person currently serving as a Project Manager on a major IT system acquisition for the Coast Guard. My threeRead… Read more »