Happy anniversary to GovLoop! Flowers for Steve (obviously, not my roses …that are full of holes from nasty Japanese beetles …) We need a Rose Garden Czar. And by the way, since we are all about transparency and such, where is the pay-scale for those 30-odd folks published? Image by Jack Duval via Flickr PartiesRead… Read more »
Keith McDonald raises an excellent point in a comment on the previous post. “We are having a real fear on missing an offensive post on a wall for example….Hypotheticaly someone could post something that stays up for a while that we simply miss because we didn’t check it out fast enough or our one FBRead… Read more »
The NYC Gov 2.0 Tech Forum was held on July 9, 2009, from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Digital Sandbox Network Event Center at 55 Broad Street, New York City Event Overview: * Learn about the City’s evolving use of technology and how your company can provide innovative IT solutions to improve publicRead… Read more »
Good morning, Govloopers!!! It’s been a year since Govloop sent me this e-mail… he sent it on July 10, 2008: So here’s what I’m thinking with GovLoop. You (studboy) write a once a week short blog/column. Your topic of choice. It can be a combination of your crazy stories and the sports stud hokieguru. IRead… Read more »
Most liked 1 New York City http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true 5 2 Philadelphia http://www.phila.gov/ 5 3 San Francisco http://www.sfgov.org/ 5 4 Austin http://www.austintexas.org/ 5 5 Nashville http://www.nashville.gov/ 5 6 Oklahoma City http://www.okc.gov/ 5 low 7 Fresno http://www.fresno.gov/default.htm 5 8 Long Beach http://www.longbeach.gov/default.asp 5 9 Cleveland http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home 5 10 Virginia Beach http://www.vbgov.com/ 5 11 Miami http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/cms/ 5 12 ArlingtonRead… Read more »
Republished from O’Reilly Radar. Blog post by John Geraci of DIYcity.org Original post can be found here At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum I had a conversation with someone working for a city (I won’t say which city), who was tasked with opening up that city’s data. We were talking about the Apps for DemocracyRead… Read more »
Author’s note: I’m reproducing this blog from our internal City of Toronto staff webbook blog on social media. Would you agree we face a great deal of bureaucracy in our work in government? It’s generally not one person who may impede the progress of a task but more often a chain of sometimes old andRead… Read more »
Author’s note: I’m reproducing this blog from our internal City of Toronto staff webbook blog on web writing. With all the buzz around Web 2.0 technology, it’s easy to forget social media tools allow everyone to “write for the web”. It’s no longer a one way street. User comments are often more significant than theRead… Read more »
There are around two dozen state Departments of Transportation on Facebook. Facebook’s newsfeed-style user homepage is apparently still somewhat contentious among the site’s users (I wasn’t around before the switch), but it’s the standard presentation template for most online communities, and it’s ideally suited to the kind of public outreach required of most DOTs. AnRead… Read more »
From Federal Computer Week As the discussion about acquisition reform continues in Congress and throughout the federal government, a new emphasis is emerging on workforce development as critical to successful acquisitions. Concern about the nearing wave of large-scale retirements has grown for the past several years, yet no good solution has emerged. Recent press coverageRead… Read more »