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Research Reports 1. Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015 (04/12/2010) – Morgan Stanley predicts the future of the Internet and highlights important online trends… http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/ 2. New UK standards for measuring government websites (04/2010). http://www.coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=188. Highlights: Measuring Website Usage http://www.coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=229 Measuring Website Costs http://www.coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=223 Measuring Website Quality http://www.coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=138 3. Making the Most of Social Media:Read… Read more »

Visit Jamie’s Real-time TBI Survival Blog

Many of my friends | acquaintances know that my youngest son Jamie suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) while working in Southern Maryland for Waldorf Ford and Dodge in January 2003. When you want your car the “next day” and that sales person says – “we can get it for you and have it hereRead… Read more »

Crowdsourcing: gathering information to support forest fire fighting

Elena Rapisardi, a new friend who contracts with, and does innovative volunteer work for, various parts of the Italian government, has reported out on an interesting meeting here. I bring this up because we don’t always notice when new ground is being broken and new fuel is being provided for our own further development andRead… Read more »

Is My Employer Practicing Web 2.0 or Government 2.0? How Can I Help?

As an employee (commerical or public service), it can be really invigorating to discover that your employer is a trend-setting (or following) participant in Web 2.0 practices. Your employer may actually market this, its “Web 2.0 expertise”. This seems to suggest your employer is current, relevant, amenable to open standards generated by a global communityRead… Read more »

Thanks, Government Web Professionals – To Citizens, You Are the World

I always get a little nostalgic this time of the year. You see, this coming week, government web professionals (web managers and new media directors) across the country will gather in Washington DC for the annual 2 days of networking, listening to government leaders and web luminaries, and discussing exciting new ventures and directions, courtesyRead… Read more »

Alfresco (ECM) + Drupal (WCM) for Open Government

Description To meet Open Government Directive (OGD) requirements of transparency, participation, and collaboration, government agencies are using open source technology to power their websites including Recovery.Commerce.gov and NYSenate.gov. In addition to openness, freedom of information, and delivery of quality content to citizens, OGD requirements include: Continually managing the content Delivering content in an open formatRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Roundup (April 23 Edition)

Local governments look to the cloud, Corpus Christi goes the open source route, with a twist, the Commerce Department wants your opinion and financial fraud victims have a new resource, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Saving resources, having access to advanced features and functionality, and reliable availability and uptime wereRead… Read more »

Social Network Service (SNS) newest trend – “affordable and necessary” premium pricing

The Social Network Service (SNS) NING Related Articles GBE101: strategies for business development under the social network umbrella GBE101: Podcasting – becoming a technological native GBE101: Wikis and Wikipedia GBE101: social network sites (SNS) by Donna L. Quesinberry Government Business Examiner On the 15th of March 2010, Jason Rosenthal moved from the Chief Operations OfficerRead… Read more »

Virtualization for Dummies

“In these tough economic times, business decisions aren’t made in a vacuum. Plenty of outside considerations have an impact on the implementation of any technical solutions. Nowhere is this truer than in a government environment.“Richard Blum, Virtualization for Government, 2010 Understanding the “ins and outs” of server virtualization in a government environment can be difficultRead… Read more »

Ideas come from everyone. How well are you listening?

As I noted in yesterday’s post about the power of Social Support Communities, I recently chatted with Todd Sierer, Product Manager for LabVIEW, about their Social Support Community (SSC) efforts. I also, however, discussed their recent efforts with customer co-creation leveraging the ideation platform from Lithium Technologies. For those of you who are unsure ofRead… Read more »