“We shouldn’t be afraid to fail.” “Let’s make smart mistakes.” At TWTRCON DC in October, I had an inspiring and enlightening conversation with Air Force Emergency Technology Chief Capt. Chris Sukach. Capt. Sukach not only gave real-world examples of Gov2.0 success and failure, she addressed the need to have a culture of “smart mistakes” head-on.Read… Read more »
As noted in Part 3 of this series, the vast majority of social media websites allow users to identify who they work for as well as other information about their employment. If employees complete this information, they are to some degree acting as representatives of the organization and all of their posts may reflect onRead… Read more »
Hi everyone, I just wonder if anyone met examples of web 2.0 in government use or in citizen activity in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently I am doing research “Citizen speak out” about experience of CEE societies in new media use for citizen communication, interaction, mobilisation etc. I didn’t find yet good examples although socialRead… Read more »
November 5th is GOSCON the Government Open Source Conference, and I’ll be there. In fact, I’m planning to volunteer a little of my time at the Drupal Booth, so stop by and say hello. Heck, you can even ask me about the http://go.usa.gov site. I promise, I will answer you. I’m also planning to headRead… Read more »
In last week’s discussion on encouraging the timid contributor, Govloop creator Steve Ressler left a link to the phenomenal — and horrifying — site 90-9-1.com. It explains a common community interaction ratio seen on wikis. The 90-9-1 Principle states that members of a community will interact with the wiki in a defined way. According toRead… Read more »
CREATOR OF CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TO KEYNOTE FOSE AND GOVSEC/U.S. LAW 2010 Anthony Zuiker to Discuss How Online Collaboration Improves Creativity and Productivity FALLS CHURCH, Va. – October 26, 2009 – 1105 Government Information Group, the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology (IT) market, today announced that AnthonyRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner Recent reporting by Federal Computer Week (FCW) highlights an issue that is not being addressed by acquisition reform initiatives; reforming the contract protest process. Writing in the Editor’s Notebook blog at Washington Technology, Nick Wakeman discusses the protest by Unisys and General Dynamics of TSA’s contract award to Computer Sciences CorpRead… Read more »
My conclusion (and this isn’t a legal opinion so don’t take it as such) is that the Courts may not view social media sites as a public forum. They may even go so far as to say it is government speech. I will say that the following from the Washington State Attorney General’s facebook pageRead… Read more »
Everyone (or almost everyone) is busy participating in some form of Social Media these days. How many of us have Facebook, Titter, MySpace accounts and have sent (or received) friend requests from coworkers? Probably plenty! I understand that lawyers now warn against bosses who “friend” subordinates, as it is known to intensify workplace grievances asRead… Read more »
If you’re a regular reader of The New York Times, you may be a bit concerned about flying. More specifically, about being able to get on an airplane once the new federal initiative called Secure Flight kicks in. According to Joe Sharkey, blogging in The Times, Secure Flight “requires that the name on the IDRead… Read more »