Posts By Megan

Nominations for the 2011 Federal 100 awards program due Dec 17

Federal Computer Week is now accepting nominations for the 2011 Federal 100 awards program, which recognizes individuals in government and industry who have played pivotal roles in the federal IT community in 2010. All nominations must be submitted via the electronic form below. The deadline is Dec. 17, 2010. Here are guidelines for submitting nominations.Read… Read more »

Federal Intranet Content Managers: Call for Presenters

The Federal Intranet Content Managers (FICM) invite YOU to participate in the FICM meeting through “lightning round” presentations to kick off the new fiscal year. You may recall this format being used at the 2010 Government Web Managers Conference — several speakers presented for roughly 5 minutes each on a single topic, allowing several topicsRead… Read more »

GovLaunch – Launch of Federal Intranet Content Managers’ (FICM) IdeaScale Site

The Federal Intranet Content Managers are pleased to announce the launch of our new IdeaScale site. This is a request for all members to visit our IdeaScale site and suggest one topic idea related to intranets for future discussions. Also, please vote on the ideas that are currently there. This will help us move forwardRead… Read more »

Developing a Social Media Strategy

With all of the Agencies putting together their OpenGov plans due in April, I am curious as to how many have a coherent Social Media Strategy. developing-a-social-strategy-webinar is a great starting point. How do Agencies go beyond using social channels to simply push information and instead actually engage and listen to employees and the generalRead… Read more »

Five (Not So Serious) Proposals to Make OpenGov Cooler – Add Yours!

More from Andrea Di Maio/Gartner: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2010/03/01/five-not-so-serious-proposals-to-make-open-government-cooler/ Open Government Idol. A group of citizen-developers perform in a coding contest which is broadcasted on several media. Besides programming, contestants are expected to read or sing their lines of code aloud. Audience can vote for the best coder based on a combination of usefulness of applications, choice ofRead… Read more »

The Women’s Conference 2010 – Feb Giveaway ends tonight!

From @mariashriver: Our February Giveaway ends tonight! Win 2 tix to The Women’s Conference 2010 and chance to interview Jillian Michaels. http://bit.ly/9lnaie Below is my submission: 🙂 ———– The Great Giveaway: Who would you like to invite for brunch? I would like to have all of the members of #RusTechDel to brunch: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgtwbz3t_13gjcb4bc3 Co-led byRead… Read more »

Twitterati – Who are your most influential followers and why?

Building on the recent list of Top 10 (more like Top 100) Gov’t Twitters to follow: http://bevusa.uservoice.com/forums/40979-general Who is your most influential follower and why? Who retweets your tweets most often? Which follower has the most followers? ETC. How do we measure success on Twitter in general? Broad outreach, targeted marketing, impact, etc.? Here’s myRead… Read more »