“Build Community!” “Social Media” “Twitter!” “Facebook” – the battle cries of a new generation in business, government and media. But what do these demands mean? What practical impact do they have? Intuitively, we know that many people together are stronger than few people acting alone. Yet, in most walks of life we live in aRead… Read more »
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“Sweet GovTweets” Sun 5th April 2009 edition
Apologies for errors in advance: @erikcecil: What features / functionalities would you want to see for true open source government? #opengov (make politicians really pay attention?) @erikcecil: Following ur gd exmple @AlexisNeely; launched bus. & giving bk via pple-empowering open gov project; launches 4-10. #agape #amgrat #opengov @wtneary: Any other Washington State electeds going toRead… Read more »
“Sweet GovTweets” Coredump from Gov20camp (March 2009)
In progress. Currently timestamp is: 11:45 am on Friday. This tag will be updated as I continue to trawl through the tweets. I am trying to go through the main twitter stream in the event someone is interested in the (currently) 4661 tweets from gov20camp. I am also trying to arrange the sessions as bestRead… Read more »
A new book on leadership soon to be published
My new book on leadership, Taking Charge: Effective Leadership for the 21st Century will soon be published. Recommended reading for anyone who wants to learn effective leadership principles and techniques written in plain, common sense language.
TransparencyCamp: 97 Tweets from 100 Pages of History
I couldn’t make it to TransparencyCamp, but it sounded fabulous. I did wade through 100 pages of Twitter Search history (as much as it keeps). Here’s what I came up with, for what it’s worth. Unlike my other summaries, while this is in chronological order, more or less, the fact that there were a lotRead… Read more »
Musings on Web 2.0 Culture Change
I had the privilege of speaking today at a conference on social media in gov’t hosted by the Potomac Forum. Listening to the other speakers, as often is the case, I heard similar concepts to the ones I use, but put in different ways. I thought I’d share here some of what I distilled. NoneRead… Read more »
When Desperate Times Call for Participatory Measures
41 U.S. states currently face budget gaps, and judging by the forecasts of even the most optimistic specialists, such a situation is far from being substantially changed in the near future. In this context, it is particularly interesting to highlight the few ICT mediated initiatives that are starting to take place at the subnational (state)Read… Read more »
e-Participatory Budgeting: the Belo Horizonte case
This post is based on a paper of mine published by the Electronic Democracy Centre (Zurich University) about the experience of the e-Participatory Budgeting of the city of Belo Horizonte. In part 1 of this post I use extracts from a short article by Dan Jellinek (Headstar) and myself that aimed to present a summaryRead… Read more »