A quick blog from the Hokie Guru… today, at 2 PM EST, the USA Men’s Soccer team takes on Brazil in the finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup… A quick recap… the USA was on its back… it had to beat Egypt by three goals and Italy had to lose by three goals… amazingly, thisRead… Read more »
Last week’s poll was how focused is your organization on implementing Gov 2.0. The results came in as: 0.0% #1 Focus 28.6% Major Goal 37.1% Minor Push 34.3% No Effort At All Once again the results were interesting. Interesting that no one has it as the #1 goal. But that makes sense as Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
The White House Open Government/Transparency Initiative online wiki-style comment period extended thru July 3rd: http://ow.ly/fWMf I just found out about it via Twitter & apologize if this has been covered elsewhere on GovLoop, but I didn’t see any recent posts about it. Update 06/26/09: A number of you have told us that there is greatRead… Read more »
Good morning! I am still a little behind, but I’m begging for your mercy …;) I have trouble deciding how to handle FollowFriday. I have been screening it out entirely due to space constraints, but we were missing some great contacts. So today, I am trying something new. I tried to leave the first mentionRead… Read more »
I remember writing a blog post entitled ‘we want Web 2.0, whatever that is’ a couple of years back drawing attention to the challenge of hype in connection with the new technologies and their capabilities as laid out by Tim O’Reilly in his original definition of Web 2.0. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html My plea was to understand theRead… Read more »
We’re exploring Twitter. KDOT has issued area-specific road/traffic/weather tweets for several months, thanks to the foresight of Tom Hein, our Wichita public affairs manager. Tom was hip to Twitter early on, way before me, and was issuing road update tweets even before K-TOC launched. Kim Qualls started doing the same thing for Kansas City andRead… Read more »
Yes, 06.25.2009 … I am running a bit behind. What with Farrah and Michael and Cap and Trade … what’s a girl to do? Oh, and I have a suggestion for our next GovLoop Project of the Week: Design a comprehensive, fool-proof way to rid my roses of Japanese Beetles … I can not tellRead… Read more »
Social Media Strategies for DoD and Government held June 23-25, 2009 at the Hilton McClean Tyson’s Corner (IDGA = Institute for Defense and Government Advancement) Here are the Twitter-related stats for this conference followed by the Twitter stream: * 765 tweets * 49 contributors * 109.3 tweets per day * 86.8% come from “The TopRead… Read more »
Social Media’s a scary animal, especially for companies or organizations that are accountable to stakeholders, policy, law or any other governing entity that exists to mitigate risk. Also, social media is an online collaboration channel and tools domain that’s most appropriately and effectively utilized by humans, i.e. individual personalities (preferably employees) – vs. corporate personasRead… Read more »
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) this week suggested that the Obama administration is attempting to interfere with investigations conducted by government watchdogs and said he will continue to press the White House for information regarding the recent dismissal of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service. “I kind ofRead… Read more »