Thanks for Participating — Here’s Twitter Made Easy for Contracts

In the last month I asked question in four discussions in the last month: Twitter – for each contract or all contracts? Tweets for the Public Record — how do you do it? List Your Acquisition Twitter Profile — strength in numbers Twitter Tools for Contracts – What are your favorites? Thank you to thoseRead… Read more »

MEMBER-OF THE-WEEK: KEVIN JACKSON

KEVIN JACKSON Kevin Jackson is currently an Engineering Fellow with NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Dataline LLC, Director Federal for Sirius Computer Solutions and Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM. His formalRead… Read more »

Does Twitter make sense for marketing?

While this infographic is 8 months old it provides some good information that you should understand. Before digging into these statistics too deeply, also consider: As of April, 2010, Twitter had about 110 million registered users. Based upon research by Nielsen in April of 2010 only 11.4 million of those registered Twitter users used TwitterRead… Read more »

You can’t afford to do your job

I have a completely different way of thinking from my fellow public servants about career development. Their way of thinking is I am going to sit in this job for as long as possible, obtain civil service protections, and maybe move up the ranks in responsibilities. This can take years. It’s the old way ofRead… Read more »

Social media isn’t your job

You, the government marketer, are no longer the organization’s lead communicator. I was asked by my planner colleagues, “Where’s your blog?” Well, I don’t have a blog (other than this one). One of them pointed out rather correctly that my job was to be a “social media enabler”. I like that term. So you’re aRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links

Steve Radick: Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media Stephen Collins: Government 2.0…it can be a reality David Forbes: I Do Not Believe in Collapse Kristy Fifelski: ‘Govsourcing’ the Reno.gov homepage Sarah Estes Cohen: Hybrid 2.0? How to leverage social media for emergency management and response Dan Slee: Social Photo – 11 groovy waysRead… Read more »

Government 2.0…it can be a reality

Australian public policy blog, Unleashed, has published a piece by me entitled Government 2.0…it can be a reality on what it would take to transform government to really get Government 2.0 right. At around 800 words, it doesn’t go deep. It’s just the first of several pieces I intend writing on this theme. I’d beRead… Read more »

“Govsourcing” the Reno.gov homepage

(original post at www.kristyfifelski.com) I’m not alone in the quest for Gov2.0 – friendly government websites, so I would like to ask the government web community for input and ideas on enhancements to Reno.gov. Please comment below with your suggestions and input! (Some comments are already on my blog at the address above.) Background SeeRead… Read more »