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Mark Headd Gov 2.0 is Open Source

It's interesting to reflect back on the not too distant past and think about how governments have used open source software.

For many state and local governments - as recently as a few years ago - the use of open source software was something of a foreign concept. Many a government IT worker made an impassioned and well reasoned plea to bosses and co-workers to consider using open source software to capitalize on a range of different benefits. (And yes, in case you're wondering, when… Continue

Added by Mark Headd on August 31, 2010 at 9:12am — 9 Comments

Benjamin Strong I'm mad as hell

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Added by Benjamin Strong on August 30, 2010 at 8:30am — 55 Comments

GovLoop How To - Find Your Audience & Approach on Social Media as a Gov't Agency

I'm helping out a friend as he is getting his government agency into communicating using social media.

There is a series of steps I'm helping him with in the research phase and thought I'd share. Would love to here others.

Prequel - What are you trying to do? -
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Added by GovLoop on August 29, 2010 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments

Candace Riddle No Mixing Politics and Facebook: OSC Addresses Employees and Agencies Use of Social Media

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Added by Candace Riddle on August 26, 2010 at 8:58am — 2 Comments

David Eaves Creating effective open government portals

Originally posted at eaves.ca
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In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data - in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect.

Increasingly, people approach me and ask: what makes for a good ope

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Added by David Eaves on August 25, 2010 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Jenn Gustetic Suburban Sprawl and Sustainable Communities: Enhancing Mission and Public Value through Open Government and Partnerships

For the last year, I’ve been blogging about the three pillars of the Open Government Initiative—transparency, participation and collaboration—both on my featured series on Govloop and

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Added by Jenn Gustetic on August 23, 2010 at 3:20pm — 1 Comment

David Eaves On Governments and Intellectual Property (or why we move slowly)

Originally posted at eaves.ca

David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week.


The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the

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Added by David Eaves on August 17, 2010 at 1:30pm — 7 Comments

Janice van Reyk State of Victoria (Australia) launches Gov 2.0 Action Plan

A new Government 2.0 Plan has been released for the Victorian Public Sector (VPS). Endorsed by Departmental Secretaries and the Chief Commissioner of Police, the Plan provides a whole of VPS approach to using Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs and social media to engage with citizens, develop policy and deliver services.

The Plan has four action areas:

  • driving adoption in the VPS
  • engaging communities and citizens
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Added by Janice van Reyk on August 15, 2010 at 10:54pm — No Comments

GovLoop Gov 2.0 Radio Recap - Jed Sundwell

Jed Sundwell, contractor for USA.gov and gobierno.gov, for 2 years
-help develop and implement social media strategies
-live in San Diego

Open San Diego
-volunteer-effort
-non-profit - make info about San Diego freely to use
-find data out there
-an experiment in how to sell this concept
-want to do prize/bounty for a specific dataset and compelling

One common trend from
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Added by GovLoop on August 15, 2010 at 9:43pm — No Comments

David Eaves Which App for Climate Action do you like most?

Originally posted at eaves.ca

Yesterday, at 5pm PST the Apps for Climate Action team at the Province of British Columbia released the list of 17 applications created using data from the Apps for Climate Action data catalog.


At the moment anyone can register and vote for the application that they think is the best. I'd encourage people to click over to the website and take

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Added by David Eaves on August 14, 2010 at 7:29pm — 4 Comments

GovLoop GovLaunch - Updates to OpenGov Scorecard

Did people see the White House updated its Open Gov Scorecard? I like the concept and it's a good way to get started. Next step is really digging in - for example, not just who checked the public consultation scorecard but who is doing it well..

Thoughts?

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Added by GovLoop on August 14, 2010 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

Adriel Hampton Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links - August 12, 2010

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Added by Adriel Hampton on August 12, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Amanda Eamich With your help, SXSW - FTW!

Until last year, I thought SXSW was all about the music and films. Not to mention some pretty rockin' parties, as friends raved. As it happens, it's also a forum for sharing some killer interactive projects, case studies, ideas. Even for government.

Following SXSW 2010 tweets & blogs and hearing from gov2.0 people I admire, like Andrew Wilson, Lovisa Williams and Julia Eisman, that it's worth a trip to the Lonestar State I was sold.


I've been privileged to wor

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Added by Amanda Eamich on August 11, 2010 at 7:22pm — 4 Comments

Dr. GovLoop GovLoop on HuffPo: "3 Signs That Government Is More Innovative Than Ever"

A few weeks ago, Mr. GovLoop started blogging for the Huffington Post. We're pretty jazzed about it and our main goal is to highlight and honor your awesomeness through this increased visibility.

For instance, our newest post is titled:

"3 Signs That Government is More Innovative Than Ever"

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Added by Dr. GovLoop on August 11, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Steve Radick Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives

This post originally appeared on my external blog, "Social Media Strategery."

Who leads your organization’s social media initiatives? Is it someone who rose up and took the role or is is someone who was assigned that role?

Social media isn’t something that… Continue

Added by Steve Radick on August 11, 2010 at 10:00am — 10 Comments

John Kamensky Re-Thinking Performance Metrics in Federal Agencies

In a Federal News Radio conversation with reporter Francis Rose and two other guests – Robert Shea, a former OMB executive, and Jon Desenberg, with the Performance Institute – we talked about the Obama Administration’s performance initiatives to date, and the potential implications for agency efforts to measure performance. Shea said “people miss some of

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Added by John Kamensky on August 10, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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