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‘The Twitter SF Officials Daily’

If you’re using Twitter, you’ve probably already been exposed to Paper.li, the site that allows anyone to create daily Twitter newspaper based on lists of Twitter members. It’s a very nice tool, and one we’re now using in the City Attorney’s Office to create a daily update from links and photos shared by more thanRead… Read more »

Finally, A Name!

The Obama management agenda finally has a name: the Accountable Government Initiative. In a memo from President Obama to the 7,000 members of the senior executive service, he highlights six initiatives and their progress to date. He also says: “I have tasked our Chief Performance Officer, Jeff Zients, with leading the Accountable Government Initiative,. .Read… Read more »

D.C. Open Government Roundtable – Speakers Include Govloop, GSA, Granicus, Sunlight Foundation

Tomorrow, Granicus is hosting an Open Government Roundtable in Washington D.C. It’s a full day event bringing together all levels of government and industry thought leaders on transparency and open meetings to discuss changes in policy and technology and to learn best practices. This exciting event will shed light on the latest ways to useRead… Read more »

New Federal Government Meeting Services Introduced to Open Government & Drive Citizen Participation

Granicus just released it’s new Federal Meeting Services to help agencies across all branches of federal government achieve significant transparency and citizen participation results. The new services will enable federal agencies to take advantage of cloud computing, webcasting, and other new media tools to align with heightened technology standards set by President Obama’s Open GovernmentRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Obama to federal managers: Get to work

Bosses in the private sector may send memos to middle managers on a regular basis, but President Obama on Tuesday will take the rare step of reaching out directly to almost 8,000 career government managers. The president will tell members of the Senior Executive Service that his administration will use a new Web site toRead… Read more »

Leveraging the Real Time Web in Government

I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at the 140conference in Boston today. There are millions of great stories across the world that show the early successes. For those of you that can’t be at today’s event I wanted to share with you the presentation I’ll be using as my “notes”. Today’s attendeesRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 14, 2010

Growing up and growing out: Rutrell Yasin: 5 ways to use social media for better emergency response Leonard Sipes and Timothy Barnes: Three Years of Social Media – Marketing Lessons Learned Andrea DiMaio: Ohio Governor Shows IT Geopolitics in Action David Eaves: Savings Cities Millions – Introducing CivicCommons.com Kevin Curry: Why Manor? SFGov: Mayor NewsomRead… Read more »

Three Years of Social Media: Marketing Lessons Learned

Three Years of Social Media: Marketing Lessons Learned By Leonard Sipes and Timothy Barnes This is the seventh article in a series on podcasting and social media. The purpose is to explain social media and to attempt to “cut through the clutter” and offer an understanding of effective methods. We were one of the firstRead… Read more »

The War of Online vs Offline

Originally posted in my series at Huffington Post People love controversy. And people love conflict. It’s often X vs Y. David vs Goliath. Cowboys vs Redskins. I see this often in the new media space as well. Print is dead. Online is king. Traditional in-person meetings are out. Online communities are the future. Well, guessRead… Read more »