Gadi Ben-Yehuda Infographic: Tumblr facts. Perhaps of greatest relevance to government agencies: Tumblr is “more popular among 13-25-year olds than Facebook.” (or so they claim) Looking ahead: A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for GovLoop about the future of online citizen support. This week, Brittany Ballenstedt had a post on Mashable that looksRead… Read more »
The IBM Center for The Business of Government, is pleased to present a new report, Federal Ideation Program: Challenges and Best Practices, by Professor Gwanhoo Lee, of the Kogod School of Business at American University. The focus of this report, “ideation platforms,” are modern tools predicated on an ancient axiom: “none of us as smartRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Bill Eggers writes about “The Solution Economy” in Fast CoExist, arguing, “The companies working to better society and the planet are creating their own economy, but it’s up to us–and our governments–whether or not they succeed.” HowTo.Gov publishes a Halloween edition of SocialGov content. It is “the fourth installment of an ongoing seriesRead… Read more »
This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok on the IBM Center for the Business of Government blog. The Center for the Business of Government is pleased to release our latest view of key issues facing public sector leaders and stakeholders over the next several years: “Six Trends Driving Change in Government.” The Center’s newRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Deloitte has some tips for aspiring Intrapreneurs. Intrapreneur Jay Nath writes about innovation and open data in the city of San Francisco. Journalist’s Resource has a fascinating read titled “Open government and conflicts with public trust and privacy: Recent research ideas” Related: 16% of Facebook users list “getting news” as a “major reason”Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week is all about data in its many forms and for its many uses: Pew Research details “12 trends shaping digital news,” the importance for government agencies: make sure your information is optimized for the formats in which people access it! Business Technology asks “E-government: Has the dam broken on government data?,”Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Fierce Government ponders “What Data.gov’s closure means for government APIs” with quotes from Sunlight Foundation on how to mitigate the damage in future outages. Forbes has an interesting article about how electric utilities are using big data. With a great video on the smart grid. A fantastic article on “Hacking the Hackathon.” AsRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Government Information Week reports that “Feds Warm Up To LinkedIn.” Related: Here is a history of the New York Times‘ understanding of Twitter, basically in tweets. And that you’ve linked in, what will you do during lunch? Fast Company has some ideas. Forbes writes about “Ideation Nation, an engagement rally cosponsored by MindMixerRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Information week reports that the FDA “issued final guidelines for mobile health apps Monday, outlining the apps that the regulations will affect and the requirements those apps must meet to achieve FDA approval.” Related: how about an implantable health data tracker? The US State Department is now on Instagram. Not even a weekRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week, it’s all about opening government. Like a Vienna Game (that is: Knight Opening): TechPresident reports that “For the first time, the Knight Foundation is giving special priority to projects focusing on open government by awarding funds to ten local information projects as part of the Knight Community Information Challenge.” Opening theRead… Read more »