Start your Monday off knowing more: Cory Doctrow: 10 Rules for Radicals: Lessons from rogue archivist Carl Malamud (video) Conrad Quilty-Harper: 10 ways data is changing how we live Alex Howard: Open Government in California – Connecting Citizens to eServices with Social Media and On Language – Putting Government 2.0 in Context Andrea DiMaio: O’Reilly,Read… Read more »
What is fairness? More specifically, what is a fair method of compensation in the workplace? Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask a free market purist, fairness means keeping the hands of regulation far away so the market can work. If you ask someone from a disadvantaged class, you’ll likely get aRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio A conversation with Matt Greeley: BrightIdea has powered innovation campaign for the government of Ireland, City of San Francisco, and has a new contract with the U.S. State Department. It’s also the platform behind the $200 million GE “Ecomagination Challenge. We talk with company co-founderRead… Read more »
I’m helping out a friend as he is getting his government agency into communicating using social media. There is a series of steps I’m helping him with in the research phase and thought I’d share. Would love to here others. Prequel – What are you trying to do? – (*From Gwynne Kostin comments on originalRead… Read more »
Five years ago, we all sat horrified watching the ravages of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf coast. Seeing so many, many fellow citizens losing everything and facing enormous challenges to get their lives back was powerful motivation to act. And the government web manager community did just that – we came together to help. I’veRead… Read more »
What makes for a good day? When you get home at night do you feel like you have had a good day when it is filled with non-stop listening to others and you have had little to say? Or do you have a good day when you can say – “You know what, I hadRead… Read more »
Keep taking those steps forward: John Foley: A Disconnect in Federal IT Strategy Andrew Wilson: Getting Serious About Bringing Together Social Media Research and Practice Beth Lovett: Chris Vein, San Francisco’s CIO, on sf.govfresh COAT: Report Finds Five State Benefits’ Web Sites Inaccessible to People with Disabilities Alex Howard: Tracking the signal of emerging technologiesRead… Read more »
Yes, I want you to think about this stuff during the weekend: Marshall Kirkpatrick: Why Aren’t More People Excited About Government Data Stories? Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Can You Hear Me Now? Allan Holmes: Turning on to Social Networking Wayne Moses Burke: OpenGov End Goals Alex Howard: Applying the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to Government 2.0 DannielleRead… Read more »
Nigeria wins bid to host Idlelo-5 Nigeria has won the bid to host Idlelo-5, an international conference of the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA). This is coming as FOSSFA and partners have advanced plans to hold the 2010 West Africa Internet Governance Forum in Dakar, Senegal. In the bid to hostRead… Read more »
*********************************************************************** Not a Govloop Member? 30 Secs & Free to Join for Great Info & Perks ************************* Cross-posted from the Open Forum Foundation blog. Maxine Teller and I had a brief conversation at GovLoop’s GovUp last night about what the goal of the OpenGov movement actually is (and how it’s currently rather ill-defined). As I’dRead… Read more »