Top 10 Best Practices for Government Websites from the Federal Web Managers Council

More goodness from webcontent.gov … Top 10 Best Practices for Government Websites 1. Meet all laws, requirements, policies, and other directives for public websites 2. Document your governance structure, including roles, relationships, responsibilities, rules, and review processes 3. Develop, document, and implement a strategic plan that both incorporates visionary changes and corrects problems with webRead… Read more »

Information management and policy in a Web 2.0 World

Web 2.0 is not new but we have yet to address some of the challenges this technology brings to us. As a tool, W2.0 gives us the flexibility of supporting the task of providing constituents with access to information – in a way that is easy, understandable and transparent. But how do we deal withRead… Read more »

Propose Topics for the Open Government Directive: Interagency Online Brainstorming

For Dot Govs (and others) via the MAX Community: The Administration wants to hear your ideas. The goal of this inter-agency brainstorming session is to identify topics that should be addressed in the Directive. There will be 3 parallel conversations, one for each of the three goals set out by the President: Transparency, Participation, andRead… Read more »

Would appreciate suggestions on what gov 2.0 topics you want to learn more about

Hi GovLoopers 🙂 I am strongly considering submitting a speaking proposal to The National Association of Government Webmasters for their upcoming conference. While there are various subjects I could pitch and speak to, would like to know what suggestions you have on perhaps what topics you believe are most helpful to learn more about. OutRead… Read more »

Federal News Radio Interviews Author David Van Slyke on Complex Contracting Challenges

This morning, Federal News Radio interviewed David Van Slyke about his report, “The Challenge of Contracting for Large Complex Projects: A Case Study of the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program.” For more information and to hear the interview, visit this web page: http://www.businessofgovernment.org/publications/grant_reports/details/index.asp?gid=328

Contribute what you know and think to a gov’t social media survey

Andy Krzmarzick and Ari Herzog are two private sector folks who are speaking at the Advanced Learning Institute’s Social Media in Gov’t conference at the end of March in DC. They’ve put together a survey, and they’d love for gov’t folks at federal, state, local, and international governmental agencies to share their thinking. They’ve promisedRead… Read more »

New Virtual Community Created to Shape President’s Open Government Directive

On February 16th, a new government-wide community – the Open and Innovative Government Community – was created on the MAX Federal Community system to capture your ideas on how best to implement the President’s Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. Over the next 100 days, the Open and Innovative Government Community will convene a seriesRead… Read more »

Attending Transparency Camp or Gov’t 2.0 Camp? Watch this video first!

Attending an unconference like Transparency camp or Gov’t 2.0 Camp? They will be unlike other conferences. They’re called “unconferences” because the format is really different. You won’t be coming to sit while others lecture, occasionally asking questions. Rather, you’re expected to participate and share. Even if all you “know” is the questions you have toRead… Read more »

A new Buzzword?!

AND Perhaps and invite to an Event! http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/02/23/drapeau-rise-of-goverati.aspx Drapeau: The rise of the goverati Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about social media technologies in Washington. Web 2.0 technologies such as WordPress, Twitter and Qik are taking communications and personal interactions into new realms. But one local trend in the field of socialRead… Read more »

Web 2.0 Conflict

VERY GOOD (IMO) blog posting which although rather basic needs a whole lot more distribution… http://mashable.com/2009/02/22/social-media-conflict/ HOW TO: Deal With Social Media Conflict February 22, 2009 – 12:00 pm PDT – by Sharlyn Lauby No matter how knowledgeable you are and how much research you do, there will come a time when someone disagrees withRead… Read more »

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