On May 25, CiviGuard will launch what it’s calls the next big thing in disaster response. In less than a week CiviGuard will launch the first city government partnership with Manor, Texas – just east of Austin – enabling the city’s first responders to tap the pervasiveness of smartphones to more effectively send out crucial,Read… Read more »
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How-To: Add Tags to Appear on GovLoop’s Topics Pages
Raise your hand if you’ve noticed the new Topics Pages and find them useful! In a previous post, I shared with you “How-To: Use Tags Like a GovLoop Rockstar”, where I explained the importance of using quotes (i.e. “Government 2.0”) and hyphens (Government-2.0) to hold together your tags. With this post, I want to giveRead… Read more »
A brief chat with Microsoft about Government 2.0
Kristin Bockius, the SLG Relationship Marketing Manager in Microsoft’s Public Sector group was nice enough to take time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions about Microsoft’s Gov2Social platform and other Government 2.0 initiatives taking place at Microsoft. Q. Microsoft has taken many positive steps on the Government 2.0 front, what isRead… Read more »
The New Norm: Work is Not Where You Go, It’s What You Do
Originally published under the title “Workplace Flexibility as the New Normal” as part of “The FCW Challenge” by Anne Weissberg, William D Eggers, May 14, 2010 As William Gibson wrote in Neuromancer, “the future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” If you think that the federal government will never go to aRead… Read more »
SharePoint Saturday DC on 5/15 has lotsa Gov 2.0 sessions – Be There!
Don’t miss SharePoint Saturday DC this Saturday! So far, we are expecting 1k+ attendees & 85+ speakers & 90+ sessions. Gov 2.0 sessions include: – Making Government Collaboration Stick: Out of the box Solutions for common problems – How Social Security Administration (SSA) Deployed SharePoint Backup/Recovery Solution Leveraging DocAve – Federal Cloud SharePoint Architecture –Read… Read more »
Weekly newsletter on research and best practices that will help us create a more open government
Research ReportsNew PEW Report – Fate of the Semantic Web (5/4/2010) Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center pulled together 895 experts to predict the likelihood that Berners-Lee and his allies will realize their vision of Web 3.0 by 2020.http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx Understanding participation: A literature review – (01/13/2010) Summary ofRead… Read more »
Whither Web 1?
When people speak of Web 2.0,And how cloud computing can make it so.Wikis, blogs, and all of these;My mind fills with possibilities.But even in light of this gifted son,I have to ask: “Whither Web 1?” Web 1 was once the shinning star.We were certain people would flock from near and far,To see the grand siteRead… Read more »
Project of the Week: Gov2Social
Throughout the year, GovLoop will be featuring projects and people from among our 2010 Partners. This week’s Project of the Week is brought to you by Microsoft, sponsors of our Cloud Computing Topics Page, making it easier for you to find content on that key subject. The also host a great group called “Microsoft ProductivityRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Roundup (April 23 Edition)
Local governments look to the cloud, Corpus Christi goes the open source route, with a twist, the Commerce Department wants your opinion and financial fraud victims have a new resource, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Saving resources, having access to advanced features and functionality, and reliable availability and uptime wereRead… Read more »
Hug-a-Blue-Planet Day
How many blue planets do you know…and love? Today is the day to celebrate Planet Earth — the one with the atmospheric thin blue line that supports life as we know it. Earth: Thin Blue Line Pretty amazing, when you think about it. Of all the stars and all the galaxies out there, our fragileRead… Read more »