Why Aren’t More Local Gov’ts Doing This
We are always looking for Gov’ts that embrace social media and interact with their communities. Well folks it doesn’t get any better than this!
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May 12, Berkeley/SOMA Workshop Law.gov Workshop
The Berkeley/SOMA Law.gov Workshop will be held 12 May 2010 at The Mitchell Kapor Foundation in San Francisco, California, USA. Click here for the conference program. The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawgov. Click here for information about the Law.gov legal open government data project.
Overview of Metrics I Use with Utah.gov
If you wish to be successful with your digital government initiatives, you must measure. Without reasonably good metrics you have no way to determine success and no way to gauge how you should direct your resources. Putting up a website is not a measure of success. You really need to understand what that website isRead… Read more »
Top 5: Set-Ups for Success Using Social Media for HR
A couple weeks ago, I spoke at the Western Region IPMA-HR Annual Conference in San Diego. The conference theme was “Navigating New Horizons,” so I tried to have some fun with the nautical metaphor, as demonstrated by these slides. NOTE: If you’ve seen my slides before, this is all new material! View more presentations fromRead… Read more »
New Tool for Visualizing Congressional Bills: IBM Many Bills / DocBlocks
Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, and Matt McKeon, all of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab, presented DocBlocks: Communication-Minded Visualization of Topics in U.S. Congressional Bills, at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Here is the abstract: US Federal legislation is aRead… Read more »
Bring On the Plain Writing Act!
It’s looking more and more promising that Congress will pass the Plain Writing Act (S574), the law that so many have championed for so long. The Act passed the House in March by a vote of 386 to 33; and it’s being considered in the Senate now. If it is enacted, get ready, web communicators.Read… Read more »
More on Social Media
I’ve been kinda slack in posting updates to my blog, but thought I’d share this news item from the Charlotte (NC) Observer. (This is not meant as a slight to my City of Charlotte counterparts.) http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/09/1424741/not-very-social-is-it.html My guess is City Council and County Commission members may now get engaged in a discussion on the differingRead… Read more »
Are your collaborative efforts one-sided?
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.”– Colonel Jessup in the movie A Few Good Men Organizations that choose to deploy collaborative solutions, rangingRead… Read more »
TSA jokes about those less-suspicious packages during full body scans
Full body scans at airports are an intrusion of privacy. We already knew that, of course, but news last week of a Miami TSA worker arrested after beating up co-worker for making fun of his penis size serves as yet another reminder. The story goes something like this: The dimensions of TSA worker Rolando Negrin’sRead… Read more »
Weekly newsletter on research and best practices that will help us create a more open government
Research ReportsNew PEW Report – Fate of the Semantic Web (5/4/2010) Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center pulled together 895 experts to predict the likelihood that Berners-Lee and his allies will realize their vision of Web 3.0 by 2020.http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx Understanding participation: A literature review – (01/13/2010) Summary ofRead… Read more »