Social Media Policy – Part 4 – Identifying Employer Affiliations

As noted in Part 3 of this series, the vast majority of social media websites allow users to identify who they work for as well as other information about their employment. If employees complete this information, they are to some degree acting as representatives of the organization and all of their posts may reflect onRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 and Citizen 2.0 in Central and Eastern Europe

Hi everyone, I just wonder if anyone met examples of web 2.0 in government use or in citizen activity in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently I am doing research “Citizen speak out” about experience of CEE societies in new media use for citizen communication, interaction, mobilisation etc. I didn’t find yet good examples although socialRead… Read more »

GOSCON and Free Drupal Webinars

November 5th is GOSCON the Government Open Source Conference, and I’ll be there. In fact, I’m planning to volunteer a little of my time at the Drupal Booth, so stop by and say hello. Heck, you can even ask me about the http://go.usa.gov site. I promise, I will answer you. I’m also planning to headRead… Read more »

Building a Wiki Community: The 90-9-1 Problem

In last week’s discussion on encouraging the timid contributor, Govloop creator Steve Ressler left a link to the phenomenal — and horrifying — site 90-9-1.com. It explains a common community interaction ratio seen on wikis. The 90-9-1 Principle states that members of a community will interact with the wiki in a defined way. According toRead… Read more »

Medical Devices, Medical Supplies & Assistive Devices Information Resources at the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) responds to more than 100,000 questions each year. Regularly asked questions become Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NLM Reference and Consumer Health FAQs are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqref.html . We review and update our FAQs frequently. FAQs often include national and international government agencies and non-profit organizations. NLM is often asked theRead… Read more »

CREATOR OF CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TO KEYNOTE FOSE AND GOVSEC/U.S. LAW 2010

CREATOR OF CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TO KEYNOTE FOSE AND GOVSEC/U.S. LAW 2010 Anthony Zuiker to Discuss How Online Collaboration Improves Creativity and Productivity FALLS CHURCH, Va. – October 26, 2009 – 1105 Government Information Group, the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology (IT) market, today announced that AnthonyRead… Read more »

Acquisition Reform Should Include Protest Actions

From The Acquisition Corner Recent reporting by Federal Computer Week (FCW) highlights an issue that is not being addressed by acquisition reform initiatives; reforming the contract protest process. Writing in the Editor’s Notebook blog at Washington Technology, Nick Wakeman discusses the protest by Unisys and General Dynamics of TSA’s contract award to Computer Sciences CorpRead… Read more »