Poll: Who Has Better Hair – Nick Charney or Uncle Jesse??
No offense Nick…Sterling Whitehead brought this up…and in the spirit of your visit and a great laugh, I figured why not…
Posts Tagged: 2.0
Drupal Commons Released (Free, open source Collaboration software)
Acquia – a leading provider of Enterprise Support for Drupal, yesterday released Drupal Commons – a free, open source competitor to Jive Software, Telligent, Sharepoint 2010, others. A number of Government customers are in the process of deploying Drupal Commons for Enterprise-class Communities. Since it is free (free from license fees, free from any restrictionsRead… Read more »
Six Lessons to Start Your Political/Government Online Community
Share This PostMore and more campaigns and local governments are getting online (they get it!). Running an online community can be quite a challenge, but when done correctly it can be fun and a great way to reach your real community. This blog post is the devoted to the lessons I learned while creating andRead… Read more »
Looking For A Tool To Help Your Agency’s Data Make Sense – Come to this FREE webinar
Have you registered for the next Web Manager University New Media Talk? This event is interesting to me personally because – I hate data. I mean – I actually love using data to make decisions, prove theories, and discover patterns. What I don’t like is inputting data into tables, creating graphs, and making it usable,Read… Read more »
President Obama and A Supporters Hollow Feeling (A Call for Online Engagement)
Barack Obama is one of the most recognized politicians of our generation. His historic inauguration flooded The National Mall with over a million people, and according to Nielsen Ratings, 37.8 million people tuned in to watch it on TV. When you add the 7. 7 million people who watched it streaming live online, the totalRead… Read more »
Three New State Legislatures to Increase Transparency with New Media
The Oklahoma House of Representatives, Virginia House and Senate, and the Illinois General Assembly – LIS Division recently partnered with Granicus to engage more people in the democratic process with new media tools such as video, bill systems integration, archiving, search, and podcasting. Granicus will be showcasing these and other clients at the National ConferenceRead… Read more »
Skiing, Water Parks, Dating and Politics (Three Ways To Engage Your Online Community)
You might ask what does Skiing, Water Parks, Dating and Politics have in common. The answer… Social Media! I would like to begin by providing a shout out to a company that gets it! Vermont’s Jay Peak Resort was named to the Top 10 North American Ski Resorts Utilizing Social Media. Here’s a great exampleRead… Read more »
Late Bloomers and The Evolution of “Social”
“…[W]e live in a society with peculiar expectations about the time course of success. We think that if a child isn’t blossoming as fast as the others in grade school, he or she will be hard pressed to eventually flourish.” Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D Candidate, Yale, Psychology Today, November 2008 The Social Evolution is inRead… Read more »
Citizen networks – what can we learn from the science of epigenetics?
Not all that long ago, the scientific community was justifiably ecstatic about having achieved mapping of the human genome – The Human Genome project. The promise was that by understanding genetic mapping we could find cures for disease, disability, and perhaps enhance longevity. http://tinyurl.com/2vu2z But an interesting development has occurred. Scientists are now learning thatRead… Read more »
Project of the Week: OAS Summits of the Americas Virtual Community
http://www.summit-americas.org/svc The Organization of American States (OAS, or, as it is known in the three other official languages, OEA) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas, although Honduras was suspended as a result of the June 28, 2009 coup d’état that expelled President ManuelRead… Read more »