Great post by Andrew Hoppin. Cross-posted from Globehoppin Andrew Cuomo Releases OpenNY Plan Posted on October 6, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin Andrew Cuomo today released his “OpenNY” plan, part of his expanded “Clean Up Albany: Make It Work” agenda. The plan has three major components, which apparently will be instantiated through a central OpenNY website,Read… Read more »
This post originated from ryanerickson.com. There have recently been some major changes in my online world but one of the biggest was my adventure of trying to find the best short URL service for me. There are, without a doubt, a plethora of choices (well over 100) in the space but for me I hadRead… Read more »
You can get a recap here by Ogilvy’s Kety Esquivel, as well as view a video podcast. The panelists were: – Alexander Howard, O’Reilly Media – Gwynne Kostin, U.S. General Services Administration – Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum – Ari Melber, The Nation – Mark Murray, NBC News http://blog.ogilvypr.com/2010/09/gov-20-at-ogilvy-dc/ (Full disclosure: I am a NewRead… Read more »
Had great GovUp in Seattle last night with over 50 folks from City of Seattle, King County, GSA, EPA, University of Washington, other agencies, and local companies like Socrata The speaker was Bill Schrier, CTO of Seattle and he was great. He highlighted a couple great Seattle initiatives such as: data.seattle.gov – City of SeattleRead… Read more »
So much for the Government/Non-Commerce track at the eMetrics conference in Arlington: Alex Langshur–usually well organized and thoughful–barfed a bunch on marginally related stuff under the topic “Using Analysis to Inform Public Policy Decisions. Dan Drury told us all about an insurance company’s site re-organization: “Web Effectiveness Scorecard”–not particularly specific. Ross Jenkins told all aboutRead… Read more »
Research 1. How does your state match up digitally? (09/28/2010) – 2010 Digital States survey evaluated states in eight categories, such as leadership and innovation; citizen engagement and open government; and administration and human resource management. Top Digital States: Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania and Virginia. http://www.govtech.com/enterprise-technology/50-State-Report.html 2. Friends, Followers and Feeds (09/2010) – New study byRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” While writing my last post, I got to thinking about all of the conversations I’ve had with the talented, ambitious, entrepreneurial colleagues I’ve gotten to know over the last few years. Most of these individuals serve, in some fashion, as social media evangelists –Read… Read more »
In Gov 2.0 circles I often hear that organizational culture needs to change. If you think about that you will realize that people need to change. If you think about that you will realize that you have to change. Last year I heard the story of a public servant leader who discovered that sometimes byRead… Read more »
I met these folks last week at a mobile app presentation in New York City: http://www.roadify.com/ They build off public transit info, plus user-generated information. It is primarily a Brooklyn movement, but, still: Pretty cool. I think the powerful thing about this is this is what the next “open data” step looks like–using open sourceRead… Read more »
I’ve seen a lot of discussion and tips being shared on Govloop around the ways governments are handling citizen participation online – over social media, through their website, etc. I wanted to promote a blog post one of our clients, Wendy Clock-Johnson, Citywide Records Manager for the City of Sacramento, recently contributed to Granicus’ ConnectingRead… Read more »