“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Oscar Wilde I am a student of failure because I find failure quite instructive. As a teacher of project management, I extol the effectiveness of project management but I also admit that roughly 30% of all projects are successful in that they fulfilled all the customer’sRead… Read more »
I’m working this weekend on my presentations for the upcoming National Association of Government Webmasters conference in St. Louis. I am doing both a 4-hour workshop and a general session presentation. I’m wondering for the local gov folks, and anyone working to implement social media for their organizations, what kind of questions do you haveRead… Read more »
Professor Dr. Euripidis Loukis of the University of the Aegean Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, and Professor Maria Wimmer of Universität Koblenz-Landau Institut für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik, presented a paper entitled Analysing Different Models of Structured Electronic Consultation on Legislation Under Formation, at OD 2010: The Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation, heldRead… Read more »
Pretty cool to see GovLoop featured as a Top 50 public administration resource. Original post here: A public administrator needs all the resources available at his or her fingertips, including information about organizations, research, online interaction, public outreach and contact information for local, regional, national and even international resources. You’ll find the best of allRead… Read more »
Facebook continues to morph into the most massive social networking site known to man. As of a few days ago according to Facebook Statistics there are now over 500 million user accounts on this social networking monster. The amount of people on this site and the time people are participating (700 billion minutes monthly) onRead… Read more »
Danielle Brigida is the Digital Marketing Manager for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). Her work has garnered national attention. She will be speaking at the Advanced New Media Strategies for Federal Government in October on “Monitoring and Measuring Traffic on New Media Sites.“ Danielle has been working at NWF for the past four years whereRead… Read more »
A recruiter is trying to fill a job requisition and thinks she has found the perfect candidate. The recruiter is ready to make the job offer but decides to check some social media sites as a further background check on the applicant. On Facebook the candidate has posted that he only plans to stay inRead… Read more »
Faith (dog) and I were on our morning constitutional today, and as usual, we ran into friends. One friend, Cathy, who is currently job hunting in the grants field, was unfamiliar with using LinkedIn and Facebook, so I gave a mini-lesson. Faith wagged her tail. Then, I picked up my iced coffee, and congratulated Kim,Read… Read more »
From the Egyptian Government Blog (used auto-translate from the page, plus some of my own tidying). What do you think? Open government and government 2.0 issues are the same, wherever we live, eh? I bolded my favorite lines… **************************************************************************************** Dear Co-Reader, Like every new experience, blogging has been a different event for me. Although IRead… Read more »
I have put together a survey to determine how citizens feel about the efforts of their local and federal governments.The focus is on Government 2.0 communication and collaboration and can be found here: http://om.ly/pfXV In order to gain as large a set of responses as possible, on as global a scale as possible, I amRead… Read more »