Republished from eGovAU. Twitter has emerged as a significant channel for breaking news, announcement and discussions on political, social, environmental and commercial topics. Over the last three years the service has grown to over 25 million users globally, including many senior business, political and entertainment figures. In fact it’s been the fastest growing online channel,Read… Read more »
Hi folks, First, congratulations on Govloop! This is an excellent resource and I was thrilled that it was truly open to the government community at large. I serve as a Deputy Director of eCommunications at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and have had the pleasure of meeting several US counterparts andRead… Read more »
I don’t know if you have given much thought to using Ads on Facebook. I really hadn’t, but got curious last week. We’re not using Facebook at Housing and Urban Development yet, so I thought of another way to test this capability. I put on one of my other hats: I serve on a non-profitRead… Read more »
You’ll need to be logged into www.communities.idea.gov.uk to follow these links Yesterday we had a lot of discussion about what it means to be local and providing a local view to people. We also had views from local politicians about using social media and how it helped to humanise their political persona and support informalRead… Read more »
About six months ago, I started reading a blog called the Buzz Bin which had all sorts of great tips and interviews regarding social media. One thing led to another and Geoff Livingston (who maintains the site) joined GovLoop, started participating, and eventually we met at Gov 2.0 BarCamp a few weeks back. I thoughtRead… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance: @joab_jackson: Data.gov to officially launch in late May 2009: http://www.data.gov #GovLoop @jefferyrlsmith: #CivSource Morning News Update 4-6 http://twurl.nl/w0n1yt #gov20 @jdp23: #votereport India: citizen-driven election monitoring for the 2009 Indian general elections … very cool! (via @nancyscola) #gov20 @nonprofit_tech: Super Excited and a Tad Scared. OpenCamp-Madison in 12Days: http://sn.im/opencamp-reg Sat, 18Read… Read more »
I was reading this morning’s Washington Post about the difficulty Organizing for America, “the 13 million-strong grass-roots network built during (the Obama) presidential campaign” was having in having a legislative impact. It brought to mind the similar network of that didn’t come through for 2004 Democratic Presidential Primary contender Howard Dean and it also broughtRead… Read more »
Welcome to the first update of Councillors connected: the social media online conference (You will first need to be logged into www.communities.idea.gov.uk to view these links). We have a great line up of speakers this morning, but this conference is really all about you. Feel free to ask questions or start your own topics onRead… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance: @erikcecil: What features / functionalities would you want to see for true open source government? #opengov (make politicians really pay attention?) @erikcecil: Following ur gd exmple @AlexisNeely; launched bus. & giving bk via pple-empowering open gov project; launches 4-10. #agape #amgrat #opengov @wtneary: Any other Washington State electeds going toRead… Read more »
Here is the start of a list of people’s summaries for the March Gov20camp. Please comment below so that they can be added to this list in addition to the coverage at http://government20club.org Updated on April 4th, 2009. @cheeky_geeky: To catch up on the #Gov20Camp happenings, check out http://government20club.org for starters! #gov20 @govloop: You HAVERead… Read more »