Come on into a real collective intelligence environment – FedW
We are in Google Wave. If you don’t have an account there. There are two good places to start with joining – one in Facebook and one in Google Groups. Hope to see you there. Mike
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Open Innovation From A Hospital Bed In The UK
When talking this morning on Skype with my good friend Chris Quigley, from the UK-based company Delib, he informed me that he was in the hospital for a slipped disc in his back. The amazing thing is that while hospitalized, he created an open innovation platform for the hospital called Help Us Improve Kings. ThisRead… Read more »
Twitter and government
Following on from yesterday’s post about the guide to using Twitter I have written, I thought it might be useful to share the slides from the talk I gave to the Online Information conference in London. Twitter and government View more presentations from davebriggs.
Apps for Innovation – Two More Weeks Til Deadline
The Consumer Electronics Association’s “Apps for Innovation” contest for software application developers closes in two weeks, on Monday, December 14. The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 and a free trip to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 7-10, 2010, in Las Vegas. A second-place winner will receive $5,000, and a third-place winner will receiveRead… Read more »
TFCN Launches Google Wave Group
TFCN, the largest professional network for Government contractors launched its Google Wave group. Almost 100 members joined in the first day. I guess there is a lot of interest in Google Wave. This group can be accessed at http://www.tfcn.us/group/googlewave
Southern Africa: Story Behind the Eyes
I’m reposting this story in honor of World AIDs Day today. Growing up as a kid in Texas, I remember trick-or-treating for UNICEF, an organization that helps at -risk children in developing countries. We collected donations instead of candy. All that seems so long ago. UNICEF never went away. At-risk children never went away. PerhapsRead… Read more »
Free guide on Twitter for government
I’ve put together a handy quick-start guide to Twitter for people who work in and around government. I have had loads of requests for this, from people who can see that Twitter is taking off in a big way, but who also just can’t quite make their way around the service enough to make theRead… Read more »
Gartner Identifies top 10 Issues
Kinda Dated (Oct 20, 2009), that is the disadvantage of receiving “monthly” newsletters, but I believe is still very relevant. Gartner Press Release Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 18-22, in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla., October 20, 2009 — ? Gartner, Inc. analysts todayRead… Read more »
How-To: Edit USA.gov, Google.com, and even WhiteHouse.gov
Yes, that’s right folks…you too can edit these websites right now, live, and change the page however you see fit! Has the Government wikied out? Wait, you don’t see what I see (click the image to the right) I actually DID edit the WhiteHouse.gov site. No, I didn’t hack it either. I used a simple,Read… Read more »
Vote @Astro_Mike: Tweet of the Year!
Vote for Twitternaut @Astro_Mike Massimino’s first tweet from space for “Tweet of the Year” in Mashable’s Open Web Awards Social Media Edition. You can vote once a day through December 13th. Find out more about NASA’s first Massimillionaire. Let your vote send this message: When we tweet from space, everyone listens.