Throughout 2009, the Gov 2.0 community has grappled with substance, tenor and tone for a new era of social communication, and more specifically, “social production”. How can and will citizens, government employees, and stakeholders add value to government processes? (See, The Value of Networks, Yochai Benkler). In an almost non-stop series of 2009 conferences, GovRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from JustAGovy This morning, @apriledmonds posted a tweet asking how do you organize your favorites? I use favorites myself to bookmark tweets that I want to read later or that I find particularly insightful. However, I never really thought about organizing them. Now, I don’t know how to go about doing that, but IRead… Read more »
I’m reading an advance copy of a great new book called “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon” by William D. Eggers and John O’Leary. The release date is set for November 19. Based on the first 100 pages, I’d compare it to the classic business books “Good to Great” or “Built toRead… Read more »
IMO Probably should have widest distribution! HIPAA == Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Patient’s Guide to HIPAA is the first comprehensive guide to medical privacy written expressly for patients with a practical eye as to how to use the law to protect privacy. It is a major privacy resource for patients, written directlyRead… Read more »
If ever a county could use gov2.0 to reinvigorate the politcial process it is Westchester, New York. I worked as a poll inspector yesterday and we got nineteen voters for a fifteen hour day. Quite often individuals came in oblivious to the fact that they couldn’t vote since they were registered as Republicans and onlyRead… Read more »
Concern about legalities, compliance (in GSA the Social Media Order has about 12 different areas of compliance social media needs to adhere to). Lack of overall organizational direction / overall gameplan / strategy and plan for how social media will complement the traditional communications approaches — and do it in a way where it doesn’tRead… Read more »
Last week, I was talking to a friend who is a private sector usability specialist. I asked her if, like me, she is noticing that some agency websites seem to be slipping backwards, featuring agency news rather than top citizen tasks on their home pages. She said that, indeed, she and her colleagues are observingRead… Read more »
My boss gave me some good advice today. Don’t push so far ahead of things that it makes you irrelevant. Very true. It’s the same wisdom we teach our journalism students. A lot of them, especially the college grads, show up with a lexicon of words and fancy literary tricks. Even if they are correctlyRead… Read more »
The National Association of Government Webmasters’ annual conference this week in Galveston, TX. Live tweets from conference sessions available by following #NAGW2009. Also – NAGW is live-blogging select sessions during conference – just like being there! See www.NAGW.org for Live Blogs and live twitter feeds.
I’ve spent the last week at a range of conferences. First I attend the Gov 2 Expo and Summit where 500-1,000 people heard from amazing speakers ranging from Obama politicals, Amazon and Google leaders, and successfull start-ups like Meetup. My general experience here was that most people were pretty advanced in Gov 2.0. They hadRead… Read more »