This is what the folks at the IBM Center for the Business of Government found interesting this week. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Civic Commons launched, with a blog, a wiki, and way for governments to share apps. Pew Research’s Susannah Fox wrote about the mobile web. She writes that “six in ten Americans go online wirelessly.” LovisaRead… Read more »
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What is the CityLife Mobile App?
This is a crosspost of: http://www.dotgov.com/blog/ Connecting citizens to their local governments or communities can be tough. This is partly because people now expect to get their day-to-day information in a slick, quick format — from the Internet, and more recently, on their mobile devices. While most cities and towns provide websites to keep citizensRead… Read more »
What’s the ROI when implementing Performance Management Analytics Projects?
Apparently, pretty good, according to Nucleus Research. They recently completed 2 ROI Case Studies of 2 government analytics projects. Both showed impressive results: Alameda Country Social Service Agency’s Social Services Integrated Reporting System (SSIRS) had an ROI of 631% and a payback of 2 months Memphis Police Department’s Blue CRUSH (Criminal Reduction Utilizing Statistical History)Read… Read more »
New Federal Government Meeting Services Introduced to Open Government & Drive Citizen Participation
Granicus just released it’s new Federal Meeting Services to help agencies across all branches of federal government achieve significant transparency and citizen participation results. The new services will enable federal agencies to take advantage of cloud computing, webcasting, and other new media tools to align with heightened technology standards set by President Obama’s Open GovernmentRead… Read more »
Why Isn’t the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore’s Law?
The U.S. government doesn’t keep an index of broadband internet prices by which to evaluate the success of its broadband promotion policies – the statistics they do have are mushed together with prices for dial-up access – so a couple of researchers at Northwestern University decided to build their own. What they discovered is thatRead… Read more »
Three Years of Social Media: Marketing Lessons Learned
Three Years of Social Media: Marketing Lessons Learned By Leonard Sipes and Timothy Barnes This is the seventh article in a series on podcasting and social media. The purpose is to explain social media and to attempt to “cut through the clutter” and offer an understanding of effective methods. We were one of the firstRead… Read more »
Social Networks Exhibit Senior Appeal
From Pew Research: In the last year, social networking services have nearly doubled in popularity among online Americans over 50, while they made virtually no inroads among those ages 18 to 29, according to a report published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That spike in popularity includes those over 65 years old,Read… Read more »
HOMELAND SECURITY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACADEMY LAUNCHES “DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR SCHOOLS” TRAINING EVENT IN NEW DELHI
(September 13, 2010) – Indian school children will be better protected following the Homeland Security and Disaster Management Academy’s (HS+DMA) inaugural “Disaster Preparedness for Schools” instructional programme held in New Delhi September 6-10. Headlining the event was the “Safe Schools” initiative, which included both a two-hour overview seminar in which local administrators and educators learnedRead… Read more »
New Report: Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report
A new report on the free access to law movement, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report (2010) [URL updated 7 March 2011], has been published by a research team including the following members: Project Director – LexUM: Ivan Mokanov Director of LexUM: Daniel Poulin Research Coordinator – LexUM:Read… Read more »
Check out presentations from Human Capital Management: Federal (HCMF)
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