British government tells civil servants to tweet – publishes guidelines (!!!)
Twitter in UK Government
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Good piece on MEDIASHIFT re public officials on Twitter
Sorry if this was already posted. Mark Hannah has a nice piece on MEDIASHIFT about how public officials are using Twitter. He wonders if “our elected officials (are) using Twitter to get around the traditional media filter and communicate directly with their constituents?”, to which I would say, “Of course they are.” That’s the point.Read… Read more »
Top 49 “best” Park and Rec Municipal Websites (with Details and Scoring)
I am in a project to re-design a city website and as city websites age there is starting to a a common vocabulary that surfaces. Common missions also bring up common tasks and functions that a website would have to handle. This part of the study was for city Facilities that are open to theRead… Read more »
Real City Planning
Real city planning isn’t complicated. Real city planning doesn’t have to involve laws or regulations. Real city planning doesn’t need a degree or important people. Real city planning is you. You, your vision, your attitude for your community. The single greatest force in any community is the will of its people. Complacency, spirit de corps,Read… Read more »
Writing for the web (train for content providers) draft material
Writing for the Web Introduction — In writting for the city of richmond website we are trying to accomplish 2 goals. the first goal is to the a reliable source of current information about the operations, interactions and demographic of the City of Richmond. The second goal is to push current projects and inspire citizenRead… Read more »
slowly adopting Twitter
We really took a big step today with Twitter today @ Internal Revenue by posting events at the Tax Return Preparer Review panel at the Reagan Bldg. I’ve also been active with tax_pro_news on twitter.
Shortening cookies: Using OpenID to improve government privacy online (response to OMB request)
I think this blog, although it focuses on technical solutions, would interest GovLoop readers because of its relationship to public participation. Here is the intro. — For almost a decade, thanks to privacy laws, U.S. government web sites have been prohibited from using cookies to maintain information on visitors between sessions. (Session cookies are allowedRead… Read more »
The Internet Life of One Photo
I wrote about this on my personal web site but thought that the GovLoop community might be interested. In a nutshell, an artist found a photo I took and used it to help him finish a painting. He was able to do this because I had my photo online and I had assigned it aRead… Read more »
Roanoke County, VA Wins National and State Awards for Web 2.0
Roanoke County once again claimed the top spot among counties in the 150,000-249,999 population category, reaffirming the County’s committment to providing first class information technology services for its citizens. The Digital Counties Survey is a comprehensive list of everything digital, from infrastructure to IT-based services for citizens. Conducted by the Center for Digital Government, theRead… Read more »
Three Focal Points of Open Government
***See the original post at Wikinomics.com*** Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Open Government and Innovations Conference in Washington, DC. The two-day conference was a fantastic opportunity to hear some of the leaders in open government thinking, including: Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO – “The Innovation Imperative“ Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO – “TownRead… Read more »