Tech

Congressman Wants YOU to Redesign His Website

Congressman Mike Honda, 15th District of California Representative, recently announced the launch of his new initiative to crowdsource the redesign of his website. His goal of this project is to move America closer to Government 2.0, where Rep. Honda’s constituents can play a role in the creation of a site that will better serve them.Read… Read more »

How Australian journalists are using Twitter

Republished from eGovAU. If you’ve been attempting to advocate the use of Twitter for your Department or Agency, as I know a couple of people have been attempting to do, this article by MediaShift on How Journalists Are Using Twitter in Australia provides some large calibre ammunition. So does this Internal Comms Hub report discussingRead… Read more »

Twitter Guidelines for Local Government

Below is a near-final draft of Roanoke County, Virginia’s Twitter Guidelines. This is structured as a working guideline document to help guide our local county departments on how to implement Twitter, appropriate usage, while lending some oversight authority to our Web 2.0 Working Group (cross-departmental collection of Web 2.0 geeks). Our county could probably fieldRead… Read more »

New blog on NextGov.com

Hi all, Starting next week, I’ll be writing a new blog for NextGov.com called Wired Workplace. I’ll be focusing on workplace issues of particular relevance to employees who work in the federal information technology arena. Those issues will include the generational divide, use of collaborative technologies, training issues, pay and benefits and recruitment and retentionRead… Read more »

UK runs a localgovcamp

Following the enormously successful second BarcampUKGovweb, held at the Ministry of Justice in January, digital enabler Dave Briggs got to organising our first localgovcamp. LocalGovCamp is an event for local government folk that will take place on Saturday 20 June at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. This blog is the main source of information aboutRead… Read more »

OOOG Ratings – OpenAustralia

Originally published here I’m going to take a break from coding to try something new. I blogged about the OOOG Rating system I’d come up with earlier and I thought I would take it for a test drive against a real live project. For this first OOOG Rating exercise I thought I would pick onRead… Read more »

Billions of dollars lay in wait for technology companies serving the government. Will you get your share?

The $789 billion stimulus package dictates spending in specific areas to improve our highways, our electrical grid, and our healthcare system, just to name a few. Almost every aspect will involve an investment in technology. Join us on June 4th to explore how contract vehicles can be used to maximize opportunities. It’s a team effortRead… Read more »

How was RACO?

I wanted to be there and got some tweets from you Robin. How was it? Do you have time to blog your thoughts? sheesh, I have rants galore that I need to move over here.