For Government 2.0, technology is the enabler, not the ultimate goal
For Government 2.0, technology is the enabler, not the ultimate goal
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Do Different Masters Make a Difference?
Who’s responsible for the day-to-day employment decisions in your agency? Is it an appointed or elected official or a career employee? Does the position make a difference? Everyday, organizations make decisions that directly affect the terms and conditions of our employment. Who to select for promotion, who will be reassigned or detailed, to whom recognitionRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Is Not Cool Tech
I’m generally fond of cool tech. I recently bought an iPad, and it’s pretty sweet. I read Wired’s big cover piece on tablet computing, and I agree it has transformational potential. I’ve got a touchscreen desktop, too, and I know of a local school using touchscreens to great effect in special needs education. I loveRead… Read more »
Finally, A Name!
The Obama management agenda finally has a name: the Accountable Government Initiative. In a memo from President Obama to the 7,000 members of the senior executive service, he highlights six initiatives and their progress to date. He also says: “I have tasked our Chief Performance Officer, Jeff Zients, with leading the Accountable Government Initiative,. .Read… Read more »
D.C. Open Government Roundtable – Speakers Include Govloop, GSA, Granicus, Sunlight Foundation
Tomorrow, Granicus is hosting an Open Government Roundtable in Washington D.C. It’s a full day event bringing together all levels of government and industry thought leaders on transparency and open meetings to discuss changes in policy and technology and to learn best practices. This exciting event will shed light on the latest ways to useRead… Read more »
New Federal Government Meeting Services Introduced to Open Government & Drive Citizen Participation
Granicus just released it’s new Federal Meeting Services to help agencies across all branches of federal government achieve significant transparency and citizen participation results. The new services will enable federal agencies to take advantage of cloud computing, webcasting, and other new media tools to align with heightened technology standards set by President Obama’s Open GovernmentRead… Read more »
Why Isn’t the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore’s Law?
The U.S. government doesn’t keep an index of broadband internet prices by which to evaluate the success of its broadband promotion policies – the statistics they do have are mushed together with prices for dial-up access – so a couple of researchers at Northwestern University decided to build their own. What they discovered is thatRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: Obama to federal managers: Get to work
Bosses in the private sector may send memos to middle managers on a regular basis, but President Obama on Tuesday will take the rare step of reaching out directly to almost 8,000 career government managers. The president will tell members of the Senior Executive Service that his administration will use a new Web site toRead… Read more »
Leveraging the Real Time Web in Government
I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at the 140conference in Boston today. There are millions of great stories across the world that show the early successes. For those of you that can’t be at today’s event I wanted to share with you the presentation I’ll be using as my “notes”. Today’s attendeesRead… Read more »
Why Manor?
The other night I was chatting with GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell about the upcoming manor.govfresh event, happening in Manor, TX in less than two weeks. He asked me a simple, obvious question: why am I going? I gave him some reasons off the top of my head. Eventually the conversation turned to other topics. ButRead… Read more »