Any folks using private social networking tools in their organization?
Has anyone used Elgg – Open Soruce Social Networking app in their organization or any tool like this?
Tech
Department of Energy “Small Wind” expert?
I’m cross posting a blog post I posted this morning regarding a friend of mine’s quest to identify an individual within the DOE who can assist her launch her small wind venture. A friend of mine here in Austin is launching a business that delivers small wind solutions to communities. It occurred to me asRead… Read more »
Equal Access, Facebook, MySpace, and Limited Resources
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Personal Democracy Forum conference. One of the best sessions was by danah boyd (she doesn’t capitalize her name), a researcher currently working for Microsoft. She basically whacked us over the head with the fact thatdespite similar numbers, the people on Facebook aren’t the same people on MySpace.Read… Read more »
Sweet GovTweets 07.12.2009
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 »
Social media and inappropriate content: Delete and move on.
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 »
Sweet Gov Conference Tweets – NYC Gov 2.0 Tech Forum (#nycgovtech)
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 »
The Anniversary Edition, Randomness, and the NCAA Division 1 Big East College Football Preview from the Hokie Guru, Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports
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 »
25 most and least liked City Web Sites in no real order. Yet?
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 »
Open Gov Is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue
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 »
Social media – the new way to stick it to the man?
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 »