I’ve wondered why I am passionate about testing and record keeping. They are not two disciplines that seem to fit together. Lately, I’ve been reading and thinking and bouncing ideas off people I admire, and thinking some more. I’m not done thinking, but felt compelled to share the jelly. The discussion about identifying and capturingRead… Read more »
Good Morning! The most popular RT today was “Army orders bases to stop blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.” It was RT’d about a billion times. (Statements without data are just opinions 😉 ) Caroline Vetmomof2: @brinex you should check out @govloop they had question about Amazon EC2? 9 minutes ago from web • Reply •Read… Read more »
Couldn’t say it any better than Ms. Noveck OSTP Blog OSTP == Office of Science & Technology Policy Enhancing Citizen Participation in Decision-Making Transparency, a concept we have discussed a lot in the Open Government Initiative, is a means to an end. One of the important roles that transparency plays is to facilitate public participationRead… Read more »
A new article on Wired reveals the Army’s policy reversal concerning social media. Army Orders Bases to Stop Blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr Further information about how the Army is moving into the virtual world can be found on the offical website, here. I was somewhat surprised to see a military branch adopting social media/web 2.0Read… Read more »
10 minute video – “How advertisers get it wrong with wikis,” by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia,at http://digg.com/d1tJvZ, offers some good insights into getting better traction by rethinking management control of the environment for Web 2.
Participation Camp is a new and innovative unconference focused on the participatory component of open government. On June 27th and 28th, the weekend immediately preceding Personal Democracy Forum, we’ll take over NYU’s ITP building. http://participationcamp.org Some things we’re doing differently: – a virtual unconference running in parallel to the physical unconference – a conference-wide gameRead… Read more »
Well, we had an interesting morning, not that every morning isn’t interesting but this one will stand out as the day that things changed. I don’t like to write stories about myself and don’t believe that public affairs should be part of the story we tell, but in this case it is the story. (photoRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared in my blog We the Goverati I recently posted an idea on the Open Government Dialogue under the Public-Private Partnerships section on Creating Accountability for Non-Profit organizationsreceiving government funding. At this point my idea has a positive score of 20. I was pleased with the process, happy to have been ableRead… Read more »
It’s likely that most social media-using denizens of GovLoop have multiple identies across many social media properties….if you’re on LinkedIn as well, here’s a group within which discussion about Homeland Security Information-Sharing topics is taking place… http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1927518
This blog entry originally appeared at Reach The Public. One of my first mentors who ran a region of what was then called Ameritech (a baby bell in the midwest), had a saying, “If you value it, measure it.” The larger the organization, the more this holds true. In government, tracking results and sharing resultsRead… Read more »