The keynote theme of our Open Government Canada webinar is how online technologies can make the system of Government itself inherently more democratic. This topic will be addressed by Sean McGrath, build director for KLISS. Read Sean’s blog here Read an in-depth white paper on the KLISS system here Re-inventing participative Democracy, one cloud atRead… Read more »
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White House crowdsourcing effort to understand their audiences’ social media needs
The White House has recently asked its Facebook fans and Twitter followers to provide feedback on their social media activities. As an example, Twitter users were asked to fill out a short survey (see article in InformationWeek). Follow @whitehouse@whitehouseThe White House We want your feedback. Take a short survey & tell us what you thinkRead… Read more »
[Update] Crowdsourcing Citizen Engagement: Tools for Information Architecture & “Wicked Problems”
UPDATE: For those who weren’t able to attend Paul Culmsee’s seminar, you can check out video and slides here. He starts with a great comparison of Government 2.0 in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand and even riffs off a 2010 GovLoop discussion by Bill Brantley and Andrew Krzmarzick. Enjoy! /// Wanted to shareRead… Read more »
Crafting new guidelines for strategic deployment of Social Business systems
AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management has gathered leaders from 18 Social Business and Content Management companies to serve on the second major taskforce project in the social content definition process, this one headed by Professor Andrew McAfee, known as the grandfather of E2.0. “I am excited to partner with AIIM on thisRead… Read more »
What the White House Learned from Facebook
Some of you may have seen that the White House recently conducted a (non-scientific) survey of its Facebook fans and Twitter followers. The results are now in. In case you were curious about what can be found out from something like this, you can read about it here. A few noteworthy findings are… 50% ofRead… Read more »
Friday Fab Five: Resumes 101, World of Gov-craft, and Random Hacks of Kindness
Congratulations! You made it through another week, which means it’s time for the… Friday Fab 5! Don’t power down that laptop or blackberry quite yet. We had a lot of great content this past week on GovLoop, and it’s now time to highlight some of the top contributions. Today’s Blog of the Week is actuallyRead… Read more »
iCloud for Government : Why, and how, Cloud Computing is so important for Canada
The purpose of our Canada Cloud Network, the market need it is setting out to address, is that Canada is suffering from an “Innovation Crisis”. Scoring a ‘D for Innovation‘, ranking 14th out of 17 countries on an innovation scale, the country is slipping downwards on a number of measurement frameworks like this, such asRead… Read more »
Location Based Architecture – Phase 1
Since colleague Martin Howitt first shared his idea about a location based architecture I’ve seen so many opportunities and areas in which it could add huge value. So when I saw the latest developments within IOS5 and the new method for managing tasks across devices I naturally got a little bit excited. Like Remember theRead… Read more »
Research and Best practices eNewsletter
Research Minorities Fuel Twitter Growth (01/01/2011) – Thirteen percent of U.S. adults online use Twitter, according to a study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Minorities are likely to play an increasingly important role in the service’s expansion, as 25% of online African Americans tweet, compared with 9% of non-Hispanic whiteRead… Read more »
Live Blogging Google’s Innovation for the Nation: Morning Session
UPDATE 2:05 p.m. Well, it turns out the afternoon session is closed to the press. It also turns out that I’m considered one of them. So I won’t be bringing you any more updates. But hey, I hear the morning speakers were more interesting anyway. 12:20 p.m. We’re done for the morning. Thanks for reading.Read… Read more »