So many things happened today that my head is spinning. If your head is spinning, too, you might appreciate a handy-dandy link list. U.S. Government YouTube hub: gives you quick access to all agency channels. White House blog post re: Gov’t 2.0: Bev Godwin highlights social media projects all across government. Features a video withRead… Read more »
How is CPI being adpoted in your organization, is it being taken seriously and lastly, have any results been accomplished (reduced steps, saved money or better performance metrics to identify success? Give me your thoughts…
What I don’t know about Twitter is a lot. And though I’m still quite new to it, have really been “wowed” with what I’ve found so far…a big change from being a skeptic as little as a month ago. Several articles I’d read previously made it seem trivial, with examples like “Tweeting about breakfast.” Sure,Read… Read more »
Motorola uses a prediction market to gather new ideas from employees and predict their success based on how willing individuals are to buy “stock” in them. They launched a system called ThinkTank in 2003 to collect potential innovations. Employees are given $100K in virtual dollars to vote on ideas at $10 per share. Perhap governmentRead… Read more »
I’ve recently been evaluating social networking software for a non-profit agency and I saw a type of collaborative ability I hadn’t seen before. A couple of the higher-end products claimed the whiteboarding and project collaboration group areas could actually be pushed outside corporate firewalls to allow collaboration with outsiders. This seems intriguing given the newRead… Read more »
UPDATE on May 18: I’ll be delivering the presentation mentioned below in a free webinar on June 17, 3:00-4:30 EDT. Register now. I’m constantly asked “how did you convince your management to let you do this stuff?” That’s when I get a little sheepish, because my management has been pushing me for at least twoRead… Read more »
Originally published at FedManager’s E-Report on behalf of Young Government Leaders. In an essay entitled Federal Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Fixing Government College Recruitment released in mid-April, Stephen Anders (a Masters of Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School) recommended that Federal agencies should “increase their presence on social networking sites” like FacebookRead… Read more »
I.J. Ezeonwuka is one of my favorite people in public service. I first met her when I co-founded Young Government Leaders and she was an integral part of the team that took a 50 person happy hour group to a 501(c)(3) non-profit with thousands of members across the country. When I developed GovLoop, she wasRead… Read more »
Are there different protocols for emailing your contacts on these different collaboration sites i.e contacts on Linkedin, friends on FaceBook, friends on GovLoop, Twitterites….? I recently read a blog Your LinkedIn Opinion: Would you find this offensive? that prompted this question. The author clearly has an expectation on receiving frequent updates through email. Most ofRead… Read more »
Our web team hit a bit of a wall this week with our Web 2.0 project. As happens with teams that are working on a lot of projects simultaneously, we needed to step back and evaluate what we had accomplished and reassess our goals. We had two additional projects with relatively short deadlines pushed ontoRead… Read more »