The National Park Service has cited six men with illegal possession of park material, off-trail travel and public urination after an incident May 4 at Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. The men, all employees of a park concessionaire, left the boardwalk near the geyser and two of the men urinated into or nearRead… Read more »
New Presentation June 9, 2009, Tysons Corner, VA Dick Davies is presenting “What is Web 2.0… And Why Should You Care? – How the Internet, Web 2.0 Tools, and Open Source Management are reshaping our economy.” Presented by the Capital Technology Management Hub www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1922364 Date: Tuesday June 9th, 2009 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Place:Read… Read more »
On http://scotweb2.co.uk, we have been doing a series of posts on the recession, and what web2 might be able to do to help Where to start ? Written by alex stobart 9 May 2009 Categories: Uncategorized It has been over a week since the last post, and where I live has made the news forRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from my government design blog Read Part 1 of this post here. Yesterday I made it up to the Interoperability section of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) eGovernment Interest Group Note: Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. I finished the document today, and instead of examining the remaining itemsRead… Read more »
As I move through the processes of bringing new Web 2.0 functions into production and of educating the County’s leaders on what this technology can do for them, I keep going back to our survey and compiling the results to address the next topic. At our May department head meeting I presented information about SocialRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from my design blog. Today the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) eGovernment Interest Group published a Note which is the culmination of their first year of analysis on the history, current state, and hopeful future of eGovernment. Entitled Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web, the document serves as a greatRead… Read more »
UPDATE on May 18: I’ll be delivering the presentation mentioned below in a free webinar on June 17, 3:00-4:30 EDT. Register now. I’m constantly asked “how did you convince your management to let you do this stuff?” That’s when I get a little sheepish, because my management has been pushing me for at least twoRead… Read more »
Good article on the use of social media in a public emergency: http://www.brianmcdaniel.org/2009/04/16/using-social-media-in-a-public-health-emergency/
In the past few weeks, the General Services Administration (GSA) has signed Terms of Service (TOS) agreements with a number of new media providers. The agreements signed by GSA were negotiated with the assistance of a number of federal agencies. The goal was to arrive at a TOS federal agencies would be comfortable enough withRead… Read more »
Okay, I’m taking Steve’s advice and copy/pasting from my wordpress blog…. But first, little background: The OSU Open Source Lab has been producing a non-profit Government Open Source Conference on the west coast since 2005. Last fall Viveck Kundra and Aneesh Chopra were two of our keynotes. We’ve been asked to bring this to theRead… Read more »