It seemed like an event worth passing on. In fact, I’ve tried to pass on many of the government 2.0 conversations of late, but last week’s Congressional Tweeting during Obama’s speech last week was flat out disturbing. While Congressional tweeting from 50 elected officials highlighted how hot Twitter has become, it also demonstrated an irresponsibleRead… Read more »
I was rejuvenated by Candi Harrison‘s post from March 3, “It’s Time for Governance” and wanted to be sure that it got pushed out to the ‘net today. I’m a wordy guy, so I even surprised myself with the longest comment to a blog post that I can remember. In case some of my colleaguesRead… Read more »
Shel Israel is writting a book about Twitter and wants to move past the “we’re using it” to “this is how people have benefited” for his chapter on government. “I’m a story teller. I’m looking for a citizen who had a problem. Tweeted some1 in gov. Got a solution. Tell me: [email protected]” Read more here,Read… Read more »
Hello, I thought I’d share that Government Technology magazine announced March 3 its Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for 2009. The list includes Washington, D.C., CTO Vivek Kundra, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, among others. There are profiles of all 25 recipients at http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/624096
Anyone who knows me knows how hard it is for me to keep my mouth shut or not add my own perspective to, well, anything. But this blog post from Candi Harrison, HUD’s former web manager, is so perfect I have nothing to add. If you want to know how the web should be runRead… Read more »
Republished from eGovAU. I’ve come across some interesting situations recently where technology is far in advance of legal frameworks, placing governments in a position where agencies may be breaking – or at least bending – laws by using certain online tools. Twitter is a case in point. The technology was invented after the Spam ActRead… Read more »
What better way to kickoff the new “Project of the Week” series than to highlight the coolest website in government, GovLoop! Last year on Memorial Day when you were most likely ‘chilaxin’ poolside waiting for the burgers and dogs to be ready, Steve Ressler launched GovLoop. Apparently, that same day, there were five other goviesRead… Read more »
I’ve been following an increasing number of councillors on Twitter lately and I think it’s really exciting to watch as they embrace new ways of engaging with local people. You can see a growing list of councillors on the Councillor Tweeps site. It’s not that councillors haven’t always engaged (to greater or lesser extents dependingRead… Read more »
A: The square root of 9 – today’s date! And to think, I almost forgot!! HAPPY SQUARE ROOT DAY! http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=square-root-day-3309-is-upon-us-2009-03-03
As a person who does a lot of writing for work, I have fantasies that the folks who read my work read every single word, hanging on each as if it were more important than the last. But the fact is that most people will miss the turn of a phrase or the pun-intended pun,Read… Read more »