Each year, water utilities all over the U.S. have to prepare and distribute Consumer Confidence Reports (CCR) to their customers. Usually these documents are sent out as two or three page sheets of tiny text filled with standard, required language reporting on water sources and chemicals found in drinking water. My guess is most Americans receive these, glance at all that tiny text, then toss it into the garbage.
A few years ago,
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Added by Pam Broviak on May 30, 2010 at 8:49am —
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Today I had the opportunity to listen to a discussion about cloud computing and virtualization of IT services: "The Future of Enterprise IT Architecture" with representatives from Cisco, VMware, and Barquin. Now most non-IT government workers, like myself, probably would think, "Why in the world would you subject yourself to something like that?" But fortunately I did because I now realize how critical these issues are to supporting the work we are trying to accomplish in government.
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Added by Pam Broviak on May 5, 2010 at 7:34am —
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Last month I decided to close down the Public Works Group island in
Second Life. Over the last 2 1/2 years, the island allowed many people the opportunity to see and explore how virtual worlds could enhance the public works industry. The site also provided a place for people to meet and experience virtual worlds in a relatively safe place - the only exception being the occasional disruption from people intent on causing problems in Second Life.
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Added by Pam Broviak on March 14, 2010 at 7:58pm —
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I read a
great post on GovLoop by Steve Radick. In the post, he mentioned how important it is to not only take care of your own blog, but visit and comment on other people's blogs. As I commented on his post, this reminded me of the Bible Verse a Day programs and thought wouldn't it be kind of cool (and I realize probably totally geeky) to have a Blog A Day program. This would increase everyone's knowledge about gove…
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Added by Pam Broviak on January 10, 2010 at 10:30am —
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The cry for open government is rising and elected officials are delivering. But in the zeal to throw open the doors to the records vault, no one bothered to fully understand the impact except for those of us who actually work for government. But no one wants to hear from us. Politicians only care about pleasing voters (particularly when their records are not subject to these laws), and citizens think we are only expressing concern because we have something to hide.
The whole thing reminds me of…
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Added by Pam Broviak on January 8, 2010 at 6:34am —
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A city's sustainability and stability relies on an active, engaged, and innovative population. But local government was never structured to address this social aspect of community even though many expect it to do so. Instead, as Tim O'Reilly said in this
video, government is like a vending machine, "we pay our taxes and out come services." So can governments succeed in building community by following lesso…
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Added by Pam Broviak on December 28, 2009 at 2:19pm —
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Managing a public cemetery is just one of the many tasks handled by a public works department. Typically we take care of cutting grass, repairing monuments, paving/plowing roads, removing leaves, burying people, selling lots, and handling the documentation and requests for grave locations. Little has changed over the years in how these duties are administered. But now, new tools like mobile devices, virtual worlds, and augmented reality offer us the ability to enhance delivery of some of these s…
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Added by Pam Broviak on December 27, 2009 at 12:37pm —
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Transparency Camp West was held from Aug. 8-9, 2009, on the Google Campus in Mountain View, Calif.
After working with Andrew Krzmarzick on the OGI Tweetbook, I wanted to try to compile the Tweets from this conference in a similar manner. Unfortunately I bought a house and moved in the middle of all that which delayed this post somewhat, but in any event, you can now find the Tweets for this conference in the…
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Added by Pam Broviak on September 1, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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July 22, 2009 continued
1:00 pm PacificFleet: RT @FlexPlexico: Don't complain about social media policy unless you're willing to change it - http://govsocmed.pbworks.com/ #ogi
1:01 pm US_EUCOM: Looking forward to the panel on Measuring the Impact of Social Media. #ogi
1:03 pm washingtronic: lol @Dave_Ferguson: -@moehlert Fed hiring process IS onerous, in the way that Lake Superior is damp. #ogi
1:03 pm marydavie: Loving the #OGI conference. Great sessions, great people to engage with.
1:05 pm h…
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Added by Pam Broviak on July 23, 2009 at 10:56pm —
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July 22, 2009 continued
9:00 am kayawalton: Shea: Acknowledge on-network (twitter etc) and off-network (site, RSS) communications #ogi
9:00 am USMSOffice: Identity Assurance & Privacy Panel: re info sharing- what if info is inaccurate? #ogi
9:01 am dlblack: FEMA use of social media is perfect example of mission first, tools to implement mission second #ogi
9:01 am armyimcom: Session 4-4 Social Media is good platform to counter misinformation and reach distributive public. #ogi #army
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July 21, 2009 continued
4:00 pm ScottHorvath: RT @krazykriz: Q for Kundra: What's your plan to encourage orgs to unblock sites like @GovLoop where gov is collabing transparently? #ogi
4:00 pm krazykriz: More on the "digital landfill" w/all the data - is a new competency the ability to dig and discover gems? Mining in the 21st century? #ogi
4:00 pm tumbleton: @BusinessDotGov @corbett3000 great session with Nancy Sternberg and Peter Corbett at OGI Conf. this afternoon #OGI http://cli.gs/j0tMAT
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July 21, 2009 continued
12:00 pm topperge: As we go to real time services, also need real time security for security clearances, not a clipboard survey #OGI (via @paula_thrasher)
12:00 pm web20blog: Transparency as a way to bring about believe something david weinberger #ogi #gov20
12:00 pm csukach: Dr. David Weinberger speaking now #ogi
12:00 pm svenburg: @dweinberger is lunch keynoter at #ogi talking about #transparency
12:00 pm AndrewPWilson: Weinberger: Will talk about Tranparency as a mora…
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Added by Pam Broviak on July 23, 2009 at 10:47pm —
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July 21, 2009 continued
9:25 am marydavie: Follow @kpkfusion if you want a different perspective #ogi
9:25 am shorepoints: Following a great conversation on Social Media @ #ogi
9:25 am salemonz: O'Reilly: if it works, great; if it does not, stop doing it. We have problem with stopping things in gov't. #ogi
9:25 am Riverbyte: loving the tweets from #ogi. Nice to keep up to date in my jetlagged state. ;-)
9:25 am Pragmatics_Inc: oreilly: "build a culture of measurement". Agree! #OGI needs test-dr…
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July 21, 2009 Continued
8:30 am jrick: Not sure where to focus attention: On speaker, on his PPT, on TwitterBerry, or on huge live-Tweet screens flanking speaker? #ogi #add
8:30 am civictec: RT @GovTwit: RT @mixtmedia: Transparency has tremendous impact on accountability #ogi
8:30 am salemonz: Chopra: by provisioning open API we could greatly help business and economy. #ogi
8:30 am moehlert: RT @pbrantner: Aneesh Chopra just blessed a sneezer without breaking stride. Now that's a great speaker.…
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Added by Pam Broviak on July 23, 2009 at 10:36pm —
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Facilitated by the Department of Defense, the Open Government & Innovations program featured real-world case studies and insights presented by the government leaders who, themselves, are leveraging social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to define and create a more open and innovative United States government.
Held at: The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington, DC.
Dates: July 21-22, 2009
Below is the Twitter stream from the conference along with…
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Added by Pam Broviak on July 23, 2009 at 10:28pm —
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The NYC Gov 2.0 Tech Forum was held on July 9, 2009, from 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. at the Digital Sandbox Network Event Center at 55 Broad Street, New York City
Event Overview:
* Learn about the City’s evolving use of technology and how your company can provide innovative IT solutions to improve public services
* Talk with technology leaders from the City, Google, IBM, the startup and venture capital communities and other leading innovators
* Get insights about the City’s procurement process from the Ma…
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Added by Pam Broviak on July 12, 2009 at 10:47am —
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Participation Camp Twitter Stream:
June 27, 2009 (continued)
4:00 pm Silona: If you are transparent about your strategy you can build the right kind of community to police itself! #pcamp09 remind me of talks w @jwales
4:00 pm sdohrn: RT @counti8: I feel @markelliott's pain re: talking about strategy before talking about the tech with those fixated on the shiny. #pcamp09
4:01 pm counti8: Curious about any mobilization popular support for conservative behaviours in the wikified Melbourne…
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Added by Pam Broviak on June 30, 2009 at 5:24am —
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Participation Camp was organized to provide the spark for an explosion of sharing, experimentation, and collaboration around this question:
Democracy is a game in which we all make the rules. How do we make this serious game more inclusive, more fair, and more fun?
Participation Camp Website
Here's the Twitter-related stats followed by the Twitter stream:
Top Contributors
1. @sdohrn - 112
2. @liz_azyan - 73
3. @sureshf - 48
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Added by Pam Broviak on June 30, 2009 at 5:24am —
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Social Media Strategies for DoD and Government held June 23-25, 2009 at the Hilton McClean Tyson's Corner
(IDGA =
Institute for Defense and Government Advancement)
Here are the Twitter-related stats for this conference followed by the Twitter stream:
* 765 tweets
* 49 contributors
* 109.3 tweets per day
* 86.8% come from "The Top 10"
* 5.2% are retweets
* 13.1% are mentions
* 2.0% have multiple has…
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Added by Pam Broviak on June 25, 2009 at 8:48pm —
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This conference was held June 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Below are the Twitter-related statistics for the conference along with the stream:
Top Contributors
1. @gkrew - 47
2. @dslunceford - 17
3. @lpamelaa - 17
4. @symantecnews - 8
5. @krazykriz - 7
6. @JMGOVIT - 7
7. @jjesse - 6
8. @wamurray - 5
9. @tericee - 5
10. @SymantecGovSym - 3
142 tweets, 26 contributors, 20.3 tweets per day · more stats
In the last 7 days:
* 142 tweets
* 26 contributors
* 20.3 tweets per day
* 85.9% come from "T…
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Added by Pam Broviak on June 19, 2009 at 8:40am —
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