This past week, I attended SxSWi, at which there were numerous panels and meetups of interest to Gov20. The three most prominent strains that I saw developing centered around open government (meaning both opening government data and government…

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Weekly Round-up: March 01, 2013

This article has been updated to include Dan Chenok's contribution.

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Mobility helping government caseworkers. In Governing, William Eggers…

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Weekly Round-up: February 22, 2013

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This week was Social Media Week DC, and lots of #SocMed stories (and more) developed.

The General Services Administration wants to help agencies use and measure social media more…

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Weekly Round-up: February 15, 2013

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Google+ Becomes 2nd Most Popular Social Network? Twenty months after it laucnhed, Google+ has 343 million users. But…

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Weekly Round-up: February 08, 2013

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California's Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom talks with KQED about his book, Citizenville, in which he argues that hackers can improve government, and that government has to be more inviting to them. Speaking of:
The City of Los Angeles has…

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Weekly Round-up: January 31, 2013

This post has been updated to include a contribution from Michael Keegan.

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Thinking about social media:

It's everywhere. Federal Agency Social Media…

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Weekly Round-up: January 25, 2013

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Updates:

QR codes update: NFC?
Mood ring update:…

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Weekly Round-up: January 18, 2013

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This week: The "Wish I had thought of that" edition.

This Headline: "Civic app for finding flu shots goes viral" Well played, Alex Howard, well played.
This Program: The University of…

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Weekly Round-up: January 11, 2013

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In 2013, we're all growing up a little bit.

Smartphones entering that awkward phase? The Google Nexus 4 is too big for some hands (heck, even the iPhone used big hand models in 2007 to…

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Weekly Round-up: December 31, 2012

On behalf of everyone at the Center for The Business of Government, I want to wish you a happy, healthy, exciting 2013. We look back at 2012 with a mixture of relief, gratitude, amazement, and some sadness. We bid a fond and heart-felt farewell to our executive director of many years, Jonathan Breul, and shortly thereafter welcomed his successor, Dan Chenok.…

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Weekly Round-up: December 14, 2012

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The State of Social Media. The Socialnomics video on the state of social media has been updated for 2013. There's also a non-Fat…

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Weekly Round-up: December 07, 2012

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Strategic Sourcing on the rise in agencies, as required by OMB:
Promoting…

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Weekly Round-up: November 30, 2012

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I've been out with Strep this week (did you know that they treat Strep with straight-up penicillin? That 84-year old mold is still rocking and rolling against bacilli of all stripes! If you want to know what I've been up to (aside from ingesting fungus to fight a…

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