More social media changes are coming to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC). The agency recently scooped up the Twitter handle @WMATA and will be migrating users from the current official feed, @MetroOpensDoors. Since hiring Dan Stessel as chief spokesman earlier this summer, WMATA has increased its social media presence. TBDOnFoot writes about theRead… Read more »
Last week’s sudden resignation of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY) CEO Jay Walder could leave some of the agency’s tech projects in doubt. According to the New York Post, projects in jeopardy could include a new open fare system to replace MetroCard, expansion of the subway countdown clock system, and new subway passenger communication system calledRead… Read more »
In a recent letter from the Prime Minister in the UKto government departments, David Cameron reaffirmed the commitment towards opening up public data that was initiated by the previous government in July, 2009 and swiftly followed by the publication of the data.gov.uk open public data catalogue in November, 2009. Today, data.gov.uk catalogues data from aRead… Read more »
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Today, the TechAmerica Foundation released its report, Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud. It is a guide for the Obama Administration on “how government should deploy cloud technologies and for public policies that will help drive U.S. innovation in the cloud.” This continues a series of pushes for government toRead… Read more »
I first wrote a blog post called “Make Time to Lead,” more than 5 years ago; and I’ve written several variations on that theme since then. It’s a lesson I learned first-hand, as I managed HUD’s web program and co-chaired the Federal Web Managers Council. It’s easy to get so inundated in process that youRead… Read more »
I find that since Google Plus launched a few weeks ago, I’ve been using ALL social media lot less. Twittering less, using Facebook less (I don’t use Facebook much anyway), even posting to this blog less. I find this happens whenever a new social media option comes into my life. When there are no newRead… Read more »
Our Friday 29 July Tech Lab program features EngagingPlans from UrbanInteractiveStudio (UIS). Join us to learn more about the EngagingPlans online tool and to hear tips about successful online engagement based on Chris Haller’s experience working with agencies and nonprofits. EngagingPlans is an online engagement solution tailored to practitioners’ needs, something that’s rare in today’sRead… Read more »
We’re glad to share this research report from Brad Fitch at the Congressional Management Foundation: “The Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) today released the first study of congressional staff views of social media, and how it is being used by C Original post
For this week’s Top 10 Twitter list we’re focusing on renewable energy. There is plenty of information sharing on Twitter about renewable energy, but these are the ten folks we think are leading the charge. @REWorld – The world’s #1 Renewable Energy News and Information Source @NWcleantech – NW Cleantech is a digital community connectingRead… Read more »