GovLoop Poll of the Week Results for Week Ending 08/23/09
Our agency is using cloud computing by… 11.8% Using a Public Cloud Host 17.6& Using a Private Cloud Host 11.8% Utilizing SaaS 52.9% Not at all 5.9% What’s a cloud? Comments?
Tech
Social Media and Preparations For the 2009-H1N1 Influenza Epidemic
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. The Executive Office of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s U.S. Preparations For the 2009-H1N1 Influenza is a long and sobering document. Dated August 7, 2009, the report discusses a long list of critical issues and recommendations that need to be addressed now. Among other things, theRead… Read more »
The Hokie Guru (Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports)… The Big 12 College Football Preview!!
Happy Monday!! Hope everyone had a good weekend. We’ve had a lot about those Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General (IG) reports on the abuse inside the secret prisons. If you don’t know about the role of an IG, well, essentially it’s the interal auditing arm of the federal government agency. Here is more about theRead… Read more »
Web 2.0/Sentiment Analysis
From the NY Times Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts By ALEX WRIGHT Aug. 23, 2009 Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings? The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computerRead… Read more »
Should Your Organization Start a Blog?
Everyone these days wants a blog. Blogs are known to be the most frequently updated—and thus most visited—facet of Web sites, and often form the crux of an organization’s online impact. Few, however, realize just how time-consuming and difficult blogging is. Indeed, running a blogging consists not only in penning posts, but also in corrallingRead… Read more »
GovTwit Week in Review 8/16 – 8/22
The DoD rolled out a new website last week at Defense.gov, highlighting social media tools in the site’s redesign. Check out the press release, Armed Forces Press Service story as well as the Social Media page in addition to the homepage. In related news, there was an interesting story from PBS Media Shift on HowRead… Read more »
Hokie Guru (Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports!!) – Who’s Gonna Burst the Bowl Championship Series Bubble?
Face, govies… we all love the litte guy… Everyone cheers for David… And that’s why we love college football!! Here are six non-Bowl Championship Series (BCS) teams that you, the college football fan, should cheer for this year: 1.) Boise State – Clearly, the class of the class of the non-BCS teams. In ten years,Read… Read more »
Starter for a Web Policy
Purpose: This policy’s main objective is to layout the ground rule for people interacting with the website. This is a living document and the policy is likely to change as needs or technology changes please check it before making an assumption. Scope: City of Richmond Virginia has several overlapping websites that are not all maintainedRead… Read more »
What is the most popular thing in a Footer for a municipal website.
As I look to what content should be in my new redesign I thought it would help to understand what the common Vocab would be. I surveyed 230 municipal websites Looking to see the common factors among them. Some items where combined together like Contact and contact us because they were so close as toRead… Read more »
Local (UK) council blogging policy and self-censorship
Image by zachstern via Flickr Jack Pickard has a great post about policy on council staff blogging, which is sparked by Cambridgeshire making their Social Network and Blogging Policy publicly available. He notes that it is mercifully brief and written in plain English but points out that the bit which relates back to the council’sRead… Read more »