Republished from eGov AU. Here’s some notes useful for a business case justifying an upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 to a more modern web browser that I prepared last week for a colleague at another organisation. It supports the priority in Australia 2 to Upgrade all government web browsers. Please add to them in theRead… Read more »
ARTICLE: THE GOVERNMENT-IN-THE-SUNSHINE LAW THEN AND NOW: A MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES CONSISTENT WITH FLORIDA’S POSITION AS A LEADER IN OPEN GOVERNMENT – 35 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 245 (winter 2008) This article does not mention social media, facebook, myspace, twitter, gov 2.0, nor web 2.0.
What if you could run the White House? While becoming the President of the United States is a dream of both young and old, there are/were hundreds of millions of us and only 44 of them. But, what if you could run the White House? WhiteHouse2.org helps you to imagine how the White House mightRead… Read more »
Can anyone share some current examples that they like and see as effective of wiki government? Peer-to-Patent is always used as the example, but their website says they have closed the pilot. I could really use some examples to use during a talk this weekend. Help!
Amver received a Tweet from one of our followers about a new game Wired Magazine is promoting. It’s called Cutthroat Capitalism and, according to the site, “You are a pirate commander staked with $50,000 from local tribal leaders and other investors. Your job is to guide your pirate crew through raids in and around theRead… Read more »
In addition to publishing downloadable data and open interfaces, government needs to learn from successful commercial websites and bring their “Deep Web” data to the surface. I have posted some thoughts on this on my personal blog: Do You See Spiders? Making Government Data Truly Open I’d appreciate feedback, either here or in my blogRead… Read more »
This is some documentation that I am doing for work. Software as a Service(SaaS) is using an outside resource to provide a Software Packages to the city so we do not need to build and maintain every application. History The city of Richmond has been doing this for sometime with web application. Although I doRead… Read more »
Originally published as part of the FEDManager’s “Ask Young Government Leaders” series. @govloop: “The arbiters of cool are about to hit the stage.” #ogi In less than 140 characters, @GovLoop – also known as Steve Ressler, co-founder of Young Government Leaders (YGL) and creator of the “Facebook for Government” – used Twitter to announce theRead… Read more »
Seeking ideas concerning overcoming liability and time constraint issues in creating and moderating facebook for our city website. We are just beginning to discuss the possibility but are up against the difficulty in managing content and maintaining such a forum. Email ideas if you have suggestions or suggested reading / policies, etc. Thanks.
LIVE UPDATES 8:30 am In my efforts to live tweet this event, I had to resort to updating this blog. Government isn’t quite sold on the live tweet/updates argument, but I’ll do my best to keep you updated via blogs over the next few hours. I just got the call to come set up ourRead… Read more »