TwitChimp.com is a web application designed to help Twitter users find the right people to follow and learn more from the ever expanding dialog underway there. It provides features like twitter lists, directories and content summation as well as easy ways to curate and offer recommendations to others in the community. We will be enteringRead… Read more »
You know what seems to be one of the hidden secrets on GovLoop? Friending and messaging other members! As the community manager, I’d like to peel back the curtain and reveal 3 surefire ways to help you increase your number of friends/colleagues on GovLoop and 2 tips to leverage those connections to ratchet up yourRead… Read more »
******Originally posted at GovDelivery’s Reach the Public blog– ********* There has been a lot of discussion about using new media to coordinate with citizens. Additionally, there continues to be more focus on improving collaboration inside agencies. However, one piece I often see missing is utilizing new media to improve internal communications. Why is this important?Read… Read more »
Stocks rose sharply last Monday, heading right up to the 2011 S&P 500 highs, and spent the rest of the week dancing above and below that breakout level. The economic data was fair to good and the price of oil has been able to remain below $110 a barrel. For the TSP, the C-fund gainedRead… Read more »
This week I did something I never thought I would do: I gave a talk at TED. I’ve given several TEDx talks now, but TED in Long Beach has been the stage of such world-changing talks as Sir Ken Robinson’s indictment of traditional education and Jill Bolte Taylor’s insights from her stroke, and I tookRead… Read more »
Anonymous Arrests, NASA hacks, and more this week Linode Hacked, Bitcoins Stolen: Linode.com, popular provider of virtual private servers (VPS) systems responded to a morning breach of it’s control panel software, which apparently enabled a malicious attacker to gain control over several virtual servers of a bitcoin service named Bitcoinica. The Register has a conflictingRead… Read more »
Recently the New York City Council passed what some open government advocates see as a “landmark” bill to increase government transparency and citizen access to machine readable data sets. While this legislation is definitely a welcomed triumph for the Gov 2.0 movement and a positive example for “closed” or “inert governments everywhere, should transparency legislationRead… Read more »
The Oklahoma state legislature is looking at a measure that would apply the Open Records Act to the statehouse. Oklahoma is one of only five states left that do not subject their state legislature to open records laws. Under the terms of the proposed bill, members of the public would be allowed to request recordsRead… Read more »
I’m looking to network with those who’ve had experience with projects that have a public participation component. Especially interesting in “lessons learned”.
I am in Brisbane all day today at GovCamp Queensland with roughly 200 Queensland public servants and will be liveblogging the event as far as possible, plus capturing the twitter feed for the day (which uses #GovCampQld). Follow all the excitement below. <p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=0f0fbc3fc1″ &amp;gt;GovCamp Queensland 2012&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p> eGov AU Craig Thomler’s personal Gov 2.0 andRead… Read more »