Dr. Kevin Desouza’s “Challenge.gov: Using Competitions and Awards to Spur Innovation”

This post was written by Dan Chenok, and originally appeared on theIBM Center for the Business of Government Blog. Kevin C. Desouza’s “Challenge.gov: Using Competitions and Awards to Spur Innovation,” examines the cross-government electronic platform, Challenge.gov, through which agencies can pose problems and challenge the public to provide solutions. Cutting-edge government leaders are constantly seekingRead… Read more »

How Governments Can Tap Corporate Responsibility to Address Public Issues

This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok and Ken Stockman on the Business of Government Blog. The concept of corporate responsibility covers a broad spectrum of corporate “give back” including governance, social responsibility, philanthropy and, most recently sustainability. Generally, corporate responsibility focuses on an individual organization’s relationship with its community, stakeholders, and customers, andRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: August 24, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Start Your Engines! The White House announced the first round of Presidential Innovation Fellows. Of particular interest to me are those working on the MyGov project, which has already launched an IdeaScale component. Now Get to Work! In related news, the White House has also open-sourced its “We the People” platform, so anyoneRead… Read more »

Review of Ines Mergel’s “A Manager’s Guide to Designing a Social Media Strategy”

Social media have been changing the way companies and government agencies operate since the middle of last decade–upending long-held ways of doing business and reshaping the relationship between government and citizens. Though more than 100 million Americans are members of a social media site like Facebook or Twitter, few government agencies have explicit policies forRead… Read more »

New Center Report – Collaboration Across Boundaries: Insights and Tips from Federal Senior Executives

This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok on the Center for the Business of Government blog. The IBM Center for the Business of Government is pleased to release present a new report, Collaboration Across Boundaries: Insights and Tips from Federal Senior Executives,by Professors Rosemary O’Leary and Catherine Gerard of the Maxwell School of CitizenshipRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: August 17, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Despite this annually-repeated Slate magazine article, I love August. In Washington, DC. Where British officers and diplomats used to receive benefits and pay for Tropical Duty. And this August, I have an extra reason to like this time–the panel picker for SXSW is open and I have an entry. I’ve also seen someRead… Read more »

Review of “Guarding the Social Gates,” by the Altimeter Group

A virus that lives in only one kind of medium will not be terrifically successful. The most dangerous–and thus successful–viruses can live in their host, where they replicate their own code, but also in media like air, water, and even other hosts in which they cannot replicate, but can hitch a ride from one idealRead… Read more »

Go (South by South)West, Gov 2.0!

As in prior years,South by Southwest (SXSW, or just SX for initiates) is crowdsourcing their panel selection, and as in prior years, there is a host of Gov 2.0-related offerings. Of the 3,123 proposals this year, 82 have been tagged as “Government or Citizen Engagement.” Those tagged include presentations on law, coding, public participation, openRead… Read more »

Youth Is Different Now: How 20 Is the New 30, and what that Means for Millennials, Xers, and Boomers

This article is neither rebuttal nor follow-up of Cathryn Sloan’s “Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25,” but an investigation into the question “are today’s young professionals different than those entering the workforce 20 years ago.” For the past decade, at least, Americans have been subject to variations of “40 is the newRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: August 03, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Not a Beatles Song: 16 years an hour. Government Computer News reports that Eric Hackathorn, the program manager of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fragile Earth Studios wants us all to play more video games, and he thinks that if we spend more time gaming (noting that World of Warcraft has eatenRead… Read more »

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