I’m sitting in the airport right now waiting for my flight to Miami. (Yes, I’m writing on vacation — workaholics die hard). Anyways, I met an elderly woman who lived with her husband in 1951 Post-War Japan. Apparently, she used to have dinner with Ms. MacArthur and helped run an orphanage for the children ofRead… Read more »
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a lengthy history. By my reckoning, it’s about 5 years younger than the United States. And it’s not a building that gleams with chrome and has beanbags strewn across the floor – we’re not digital natives. So the digitisation of the Foreign Office is a journey we’re still onRead… Read more »
This is the season when a lot of people are taking vacation time—which naturally means coming back to hundreds (if not thousands) of waiting emails and trying to catch up on a backed up RSS feed. What amazes me is how the field of Gov 2.0 journalism is both maturing, and underdeveloped. Maturing, because weRead… Read more »
This is in response to Lucas Cioffi’s question on whether there is a difference between Gov 2.0 and Open Gov. I wrote a short response to his blog posting but I wanted to expand on my answer because I believe that there is a bigger movement than just Open Gov or Gov 2.0. This biggerRead… Read more »
So, the contracts are signed and returned, and it’s all official. I’m writing a book. Sorry to all of my fans out there who were hoping this would be my first volume of poetry – you’ll all just have to wait a bit longer for that. No, my book is going to be on myRead… Read more »
Web Analytics Rock Star Eric Peterson writes: As the hubub around consumer privacy continues I was gently prodded by a friend to pipe up in the conversation. While my feelings about how we have ended up in this position are pretty clear, and while my partner John and I have proposed what we believe isRead… Read more »
Audio and slides are available for the conference entitled: The Future of E-rulemaking: Promoting Public Participation and Efficiency, held 30 November 2010, at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, DC, USA. Speakers include: Chairman Paul Verkuil, Administrative Conference of the United States; Cass Sunstein, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Darrell M. West, Governance Studies; NeilRead… Read more »
Every Government agency is saying that they want to be a part of Social Media. The thing that many Agencies and Politicians who have started Social Media campaigns are forgetting is that before they launch their campaigns they need to define their goals are map out how to achieve them. They forget to ask themselvesRead… Read more »
Lars Johansson writes: Do you agree that people are more important than tools? Do you think that actions are more important than reports? If you do, have a look at The Analytics Manifesto. http://www.webanalysts.info/webanalytics/introducing-the-analytics-manifesto
Think twice before joining an unsecured wireless network. It just became ridiculously easy to hijack confidential information from your agency and co-workers. If I was on the same open WiFi network as you – sitting outside your home, at your office (if you still didn’t put a password on your router), a Starbucks, an airport,Read… Read more »