By now you know that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is heavily involved with social media. We tweet, blog, friend and follow. We have 10 blogs that received over 58,000 hits in the month of May. We have 26 agencies on Twitter, 10 agencies on YouTube and 7 on Flickr. We have toolkits that help agenciesRead… Read more »
As you may remember, I started a survey in early June but, as often happens, I became busy with more projects than I should have signed up for at once. I guess we all have that failing at times. I wanted to share the early results with you based upon the responses by just overRead… Read more »
Just like basketball – or a union for that matter – jumping through the hoops of a Ph.D. requires a team. Yesterday was my birthday, and as I watched my facebook page fill up with comments from friends, family, students, colleagues, and surprisingly enough, high school friends who I found or found me after 20Read… Read more »
Objective: Plan the city that we want until the year 2020;Initiative: Legislative Hall of Fortaleza;Title of Project: Pact For Fortaleza; Project Details:“The Covenant By Fortress is an initiative of the Legislative Hall of Fortalezainviting civil society organizations and municipal governments, stateand federal, to discuss the challenges of our city by the year 2020. “ “DebatingRead… Read more »
At the YGL/GovLoop Next Generation of Government Summit 7/6-7/7, we have a ton of great speakers talking about opportunities for young leaders to change government. One speaker is Rob Salkowitz who wrote the awesome Wiley-publish book “Young World Rising: How Youth Technology and Entrepreneurship is Changing the World” We did a quick interview where weRead… Read more »
Welcome to the second posting of my featured Govloop blog series—Jennovation—coming to you every other Monday. This series contains my musings on innovation, Open Government (Open Gov) and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). Let me start by saying, I was rather surprised by the comments on my first posting. While Gov 2.0, Open Gov and innovation haveRead… Read more »
Originally posted to Unleash the Monster By Joyce Ceconi There is a lot of excitement and anticipation for how agencies will be revamping their hiring practices after the recent Presidential mandate to make the hiring process faster and easier. This week, we want to give kudos to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for its useRead… Read more »
In today’s society, most people have a computer and an Internet connection. The Internet is enabling people to communicate in new fantastic ways. Instead of phone calls or attending public forums, people are having video chats in real-time from thousands of miles away and blogging their thoughts on their favorite topics. Everyday computers are usedRead… Read more »
On a recent Web-surfing tangent, a blog entry came across my screen that I found interesting. From the blog, The Career Guide: A complete online Guide to your all career, there was an article titled “How To Make Yourself Three Times More Likely to Get Hired.” I consider myself one of the fortunate ones toRead… Read more »
When you have a job opening you want people to see it right? Well using social media is the way to go. Andy K (yes he’s a GovLooper and yes it’s a little bit of a site pitch) is a guy who knows what he’s talking about when it comes to social media. Andy KRead… Read more »