I’m a big fan of Kevin Curry and the whole CityCamp movement….so thought I would reach out and hear a little a bit about the history of CityCamp and where it is going. 1 – What is CityCamp? CityCamp is an unconference focused on innovation for municipal governments and community organizations. Our tag line isRead… Read more »
I was going to post more about Process Intelligence and the Adaptive Project Framework last Monday but I was snowed under at work. Good thing because John Kamensky posted a great comment on President Obama’s Accountable Government Initiative. As I read the snapshots of the six initiatives, I was struck by how the success ofRead… Read more »
So I noticed on Twitter that @andrewpwilson was part of a team that was doing a redesign of samsha.gov and I thought it would be a great project of week to hear the story about it. I reached out and here’s his responses. Shout out to team – First things first, Andrew wanted to makeRead… Read more »
Yammer CEO David Sacks talks to Gov 2.0 Radio about secure social networking in government and the enterprise, including use of Yammer in the Gulf oil spill response.
David Sachs – Yammer -private, social network for just your company or organization -private Facebook or Twitter -web 2.0 company Intranet -not just small business, but large businesses too -U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife -using for Gulf oil space -NASA been using it -Snowmaggedon – lot of govt agencies using Yammer during snowmaggedonRead… Read more »
Interesting video on Howcast – looks like it’s from GSA. What do you think about it? How To Use Social Media Strategically in the Federal Government on Howcast Favorite
To public participation (an all-Alex Howard edition, nearly): Sarah Perez: Study – Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche Alex Howard: Canadian Apps for Climate Change Winners Announced More Alex Howard: Channeling crowdsourcing into distributed work Even more Alex Howard: 2010 is the year of participatory platforms Aaron Wherry: Is public data the future ofRead… Read more »
Up with participation and collaboration: Wayne Moses Burke: Transparency is Dead. Long Live Transparency. Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step 2, Creator David Eaves: Collaborate – ‘Governments Don’t Do That’ Alex Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation and ‘Participation Partition’ the Newest Facet of the Digital Divide, Warns GruenRead… Read more »
Just cool, not just cool tech: Noel Dickover: What is Civil Society 2.0? Andrea DiMaio: Social Media and How to Get Rid of Government Portals (and Vendors) Adriel Hampton: An Avatar Picture Worth 1,000 Friends Alex Howard: Tracking the signals of the Gov 2.0 alpha geeks John Moore: For Gov 2.0, tech is the enabler,Read… Read more »
In which we look at gaming, mobile and democracy: Niraj Chokshi: Book Exceprt – Can Video Games be Journalism? Dan Gould: Study – Video Games Can Improve Decision Making Lovisa Williams: The Elephant of Change Susannah Fox: The Power of Mobile Greg Ferenstein: How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy Alex Howard: We’reRead… Read more »