By Lance Winslow Many cities are in deep trouble during this economic downturn, but even if your city is not you should work to see that it remains streamlined and does not waste taxpayer’s money. In our local city we find it run very well, unfortunately with sales tax receipts down a bit, our cityRead… Read more »
This is a very quick read with a very good lesson for gov’t agencies—telling a story about how you serve citizens (and vice versa) is far more powerful than trying to get a cheap laugh or gawk: *** (from Seth Godin’s Blog) The Super Bowl hype is blissfully long gone, and lazy media outlets canRead… Read more »
Note: This post is of my own personal opinion and is not endorsed or supported by any local, state, or federal government agency. There used to be a time when capturing a funny moment on camera and sending it America’s Funniest Home Videos to win $10,000 (and maybe $100,000 in the finals!) was the mostRead… Read more »
This is a short and to the point document that focuses on management in Washington. Here are the first two paragraphs of the 11 page document. The transition from campaign to governing requires that presidential policies be transformed from rhetoric into an actionable agenda and then into concrete results. Neither good policies nor sound investmentsRead… Read more »
Librarians have been using this “new” media for 15 years. No surprise when they were the last bastion of relevant information during a recent constitutional rights dustup in America. Library listservs are like a Twitter email stream. And they do get going at an incredible pace with statewide and national networks. Information exchange on aRead… Read more »
I heard about some spam or self-promotion going on in GovLoop migrating into Linked In and it flashed back to the high school cliques. Could there be a SN storm? Too much spread too thin to think about? New tributaries, groups, fora, discussion boards and threads ramp across our many communities and blogs. Do weRead… Read more »
Kundra of DC to CIO of US
I have been using Twitter to update our citizens and beyond for a couple months now at the City of Shawnee, Oklahoma. We Tweet Police Calls, Fire Calls and General Government information, i.e. agenda/minute posting, job openings, etc. Recently I blogged an update about the various tools use to accomplish this and the automation usedRead… Read more »
NOT sure that this is the way forward to involve MORE people in Web 2.0 Technology but… Suspect that there are going some government entities that are going to, at least, suffer some level of heartburn over using their resources to stream video to unknown users wherever… http://windowssecrets.com/2009/02/05/01-Watch-a-live-video-share-your-PC-with-CNN Many people who watched live streaming videoRead… Read more »
While helping my kids research algae as a method of carbon sequestration (this as a hyphen in their daily addiction to Halo3), I stumbled upon this video on YouTube. It was posted by the USDA/CSREES – Partners Video Magazine (that’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension for you acronym phobes). Partners goes back a decadeRead… Read more »