Adriel Hampton's Blog – January 2011 Archive (12)

Building Gov 2.0 Community in San Francisco

We’re excited about a fresh new look for OpenSF, a team blog dedicated to innovation, collaboration and transparency in San Francisco government. OpenSF was originally launched by Jay Nath, director of innovation in the City’s Department of Technology, and his team members were the primary contributors. For about a year, I’ve been writing regularly for OpenSF, highlighting social media projects by the City Attorney’s…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 31, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

New App Connects CPR Volunteers, Heart Attack Victims, Emergency Dispatch and the iPhone

Fire Department App - PSA from Fire Department on Vimeo.

Imagine, you're in the middle of a weekly team meeting when your iPhone vibrates. You stand up and calmly tell your coworkers, “There's been a heart attack in the first floor gym. I'm CPR trained. I'll be back as soon as I can.”

Similar scenarios may soon by playing out all over the country thanks to… Continue

Added by Adriel Hampton on January 25, 2011 at 1:00pm — 15 Comments

Gov 2.0 Community - Rate Obama's SOTU Live on Your iPhone

Gov 2.0 Radio is inviting its community to join in rating President Obama's State of the Union address live on Tuesday night. You'll be able to give your feedback second by second on your iPhone - just follow the instructions here.

By participating in the live mobile polling, you'll be building a custom profile of reactions from the Gov 2.0 community. We're participating in this product demo through our…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 25, 2011 at 3:39am — No Comments

Gov 2.0 Radio: Bob Fine on The Best of Social

Bob Fine talks about his new book of social media case studies, and the experience of organizing 20 social media conferences around the world over the course of just 7 months in 2009.

As a bonus for Gov 2.0 Radio fans, Bob is offering a 50% discount on his book to anyone who uses the discount code gov20 at…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 23, 2011 at 11:03pm — No Comments

The State of OpenGov/Gov 2.0 - Where to Now?

On Tuesday before the President's State of the Union address, OpenGov and Gov 2.0 activists, journalists and organizers will gather for a GovLoop live chat, Gov 2.0 Radio podcast and collaborative document editing project to help define the movement and discuss where we need to go from here. …

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 22, 2011 at 12:29am — 4 Comments

Civic Hackers Invade San Francisco

On the way in to Civic Center this morning, I stopped by the new SoMa offices of Code for America, a non-profit startup that deploys top web professionals in one-year fellowships building Web 2.0 applications for cities across the U.S. The fellows, recruited from around the country, are here for January before heading off for a month of hands-on… Continue

Added by Adriel Hampton on January 21, 2011 at 1:21pm — 1 Comment

Gov 2.0 Radio: John Tschohl - Empowerment As a Way of Life

Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 16, 2011 at 10:05pm — No Comments

Limits of Unconferences for Gov 2.0: What Next?

crossposted from adrielhampton.com

Gov 2.0, in my advocacy, is use of emerging technologies to promote a more transparent, efficient and collaborative government. Gov 2.0, in its co-creations by citizens, bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, represents a dramatic remaking of traditional governance power structures through information sharing, low-cost and open source tools, and increased participation.

As a…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 11, 2011 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments

Gov 2.0 Radio: Bringing Social Advocacy to the Grassroots

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 9, 2011 at 10:43pm — No Comments

City of SF takes its master address system open source

Reposted from CivicCommons.org, by Karl Fogel

We’re pleased to announce that San Francisco’s Enterprise Addressing System has now been open sourced!

EAS is a web-based system for managing the city’s master database of physical addresses, tied to Assessor’s parcels and the City’s street centerline network. We posted a…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 4, 2011 at 2:44pm — No Comments

A Few Gov 2.0 Thoughts As We Greet 2011

I'm not big on resolutions, roundups and predictions, but I have been tweeting a bit about Gov 2.0 in 2011 and a great back and forth today with our movement's scribe, Alex Howard, teased out a few of my thoughts in greater detail. My reflections for 2011 are more of a sentiment than any concrete analysis.

I'm very high on possibilities for the Gov 2.0 movement in 2011, and I don't think I'm alone…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 1, 2011 at 11:02pm — No Comments

Review: Bob Fine's 'The Big Book of Social Media'

I did my first advance praise copy for a mass market book in 2010 (Mark Amtower's "Selling to the Government"). What that means is getting a review chapter and a table of context and coming up with something pithy about the author and why their book matters. I've also received a couple of books from authors appearing as guests on my Gov 2.0 Radio podcast.

I do my best to familiarize myself with…

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Added by Adriel Hampton on January 1, 2011 at 6:31pm — 4 Comments