Weekly Round-up: March 11, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

• The 411 for when You’re 404: TechCrunch reports on a whitepaper by Microsoft and Psychster that details how companies (and by extension, government organizations) can use Twitter to communicate when their sites go down.
• Whose House? 25 – 44 Year-Olds’ House! Take a look at this chart detailing the demographics of various social media sites. And then keep that in mind when you’re planning a campaign that targets one of these audiences.
• Don’t Forget the Milk, Or Your Parking Meter! Mashable reports on the company Neer, which has an app that allows users to receive location-based reminders. Could be useful for government agencies to help people remember to renew a fishing license (when they’re at the favorite spot near the river) for example. Or to move their car before a meter runs out.
• House Republicans Move on Net Neutrality. Here is the official Committee Press Release, and here are write-ups by (alphabetically): The American Propsect, Computer World, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Dan Chenok

• NIST, DOD and NSA work together to make enterprise risk management a policy reality.
• IT Funding could come out OK in the budget.
• Is there an Education Innovation agency in the offing?

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