DCWeek – 240 people to check out on Twitter Ideas for Seattle – Local Gov and UserVoice Paul Day’s Conversion-Driven Government: Social Media is Not You Job Open Government – a book review The Guardian: The Internet – Everything you ever need to know Internet.artizans: open data doesn’t empower communities Osrin.net: Understanding gov20 adoption, findingRead… Read more »
Join a conversation about social media and local government with Morris County, NJ, webmaster Carol Spencer, treasurer of the National Association of Government Webmasters. A veteran of IBM, Spencer calls social media the biggest revolution in technology since the personal computer. On gov’t agencies blocking social media, she says, “You’re blocking access to the wayRead… Read more »
Carol Spencer, Morris County, NJ Social media – Changes the way people live their lives-2nd biggest change in her IT career – 1st personal PC, 2nd social media Knowledge networks that are so powerful Mars County, NJ-hootsuite – parks put out magazine for 90 days -she has tweets scheduled out for 90 days -health notifications,Read… Read more »
This is a video tutorial I created to help share the web performance measurement strategy shown in my previous blog post. It’s called Developing Client-centric Government Sites. If you don’t see anything above, maybe you can check it out on vimeo : http://www.vimeo.com/10567707 Modified from original posted: usability4government.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/creating-citizen-focused-sites/
KEVIN JACKSON Kevin Jackson is currently an Engineering Fellow with NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Dataline LLC, Director Federal for Sirius Computer Solutions and Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM. His formalRead… Read more »
While this infographic is 8 months old it provides some good information that you should understand. Before digging into these statistics too deeply, also consider: As of April, 2010, Twitter had about 110 million registered users. Based upon research by Nielsen in April of 2010 only 11.4 million of those registered Twitter users used TwitterRead… Read more »
Four for today: Dragan Varagic: Social Media Strategy Template Recommendations Open Data Euskadi – Basque Country’s Open Data site Adriel Hampton: Usability – Are Hyperlinks Destroying Your Readers’ Brains? Act.ly petition in favor of the Social Network Users Bill of Rights developed at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference
You, the government marketer, are no longer the organization’s lead communicator. I was asked by my planner colleagues, “Where’s your blog?” Well, I don’t have a blog (other than this one). One of them pointed out rather correctly that my job was to be a “social media enabler”. I like that term. So you’re aRead… Read more »
Steve Radick: Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media Stephen Collins: Government 2.0…it can be a reality David Forbes: I Do Not Believe in Collapse Kristy Fifelski: ‘Govsourcing’ the Reno.gov homepage Sarah Estes Cohen: Hybrid 2.0? How to leverage social media for emergency management and response Dan Slee: Social Photo – 11 groovy waysRead… Read more »
(original post at www.kristyfifelski.com) I’m not alone in the quest for Gov2.0 – friendly government websites, so I would like to ask the government web community for input and ideas on enhancements to Reno.gov. Please comment below with your suggestions and input! (Some comments are already on my blog at the address above.) Background SeeRead… Read more »