I’m generally fond of cool tech. I recently bought an iPad, and it’s pretty sweet. I read Wired’s big cover piece on tablet computing, and I agree it has transformational potential. I’ve got a touchscreen desktop, too, and I know of a local school using touchscreens to great effect in special needs education. I loveRead… Read more »
In which we look at gaming, mobile and democracy: Niraj Chokshi: Book Exceprt – Can Video Games be Journalism? Dan Gould: Study – Video Games Can Improve Decision Making Lovisa Williams: The Elephant of Change Susannah Fox: The Power of Mobile Greg Ferenstein: How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy Alex Howard: We’reRead… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Alicia Sanchez has a very positive, exciting personality. Clearly, this is a woman is love with what she does: government video games. She project manages games and identifies potential games to bring into production. She’s the “executive producer” for the games. Did I mention she has a PhD in Gaming? That’s pretty cool. She wasRead… Read more »
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 »
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 »