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Trust in Government Starts by Lowering Stress in Citizens
Fascinating story on NPR about the “trust” hormone (oxytocin) and one researcher’s findings that trust in the government is related to the amount of stress someone feels at the time. According to the study, trust in the government is at an all time low because of the stress people feel due to the recession. WhenRead… Read more »
Citizen Satisfaction Remains Near All-Time High
We’ve been measuring satisfaction with federal websites since early 2002 and reporting it publicly every quarter since late 2003. That’s 27 consecutive reports, and believe me, the people here who analyze the data and put together those 27 reports would probably say it feels like 100. But the point is that while overall citizen satisfactionRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: Study: 61% of adults use web for government info
Happy Wednesday! The Pew Internet and American Life Project have published a fantastic study of how Americans use the Internet to learn about all levels of government. Let’s dive right into the highlights: • 82 percent of all Web users in the survey (representing 61 percent of all American adults) looked for information or completedRead… Read more »
Man is a Social Animal. Why not the Government then? [Government 2.0]
Numerous blogs out there sport #Gov20 or #OpenData buzzword these days igniting interesting conversations around what they believe Government 2.0 platform is probably gonna be like tomorrow. Some assume it to be a Facebook clone, some say it should be Twitter et al and some go even as far as challenging the norms of opennessRead… Read more »
Social Media Use in Local Government
Hi everyone, My name is Alan Huynh and I’m currently researching the factors that best determine the success rate of a local government utilizing social media. The survey can be taken at http://bit.ly/socmediasurvey and would love for everyone to take it. I look forward to sharing my data once I get done with my researchRead… Read more »
Muhlberger & Stromer-Galley on Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions
Professor Peter Muhlberger of the Texas Tech University Center of Communications Research and Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley of the University of Albany Department of Communication have published Automated and Hand-coded Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions, in dg.o 2009: Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making ConnectionsRead… Read more »
Pew Internet – Government Online Study
Greetings Gov Loopers! First, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Aaron Smith, and I’m a researcher at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. We’re a nonpartisan, nonprofit survey research firm located in Washington, DC, and we study the impact of the internet on topics ranging from politics and news to health careRead… Read more »
Open Source and the NextGen Health Care IT Community
I spend a fair amount of time at Open Source conferences. I arrive with a government bias plus some of the great ideas that open source enables like transparency and open government. Although most panels/sessions/talks/round tables will eventually get around to the idea of education and work force training, I rarely see anyone responsible forRead… Read more »
Muhlberger dg.o 2010 Panel on Information Technology and Public Deliberation
Professor Peter Muhlberger of the Texas Tech University Center of Communications Research has organized a panel entitled Information Technology and Public Deliberation: Research on Improving Public Input into Government, to be held at dg.o 2010: The 11th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, to be held 17-20 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico. The panelistsRead… Read more »