Talking Social Media with FedNewsRadio
Check out my interview with Francis Rose (@frose1500) this afternoon on Federal News Radio In-Depth talking about social media strategies and activities. Bonus points for making the connection via Twitter!
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20th Anniversary of Hair Metal, Funnies, College Hockey, College Basketball… and other topics from GovLoop’s Entertainment and Sports Bureaucrat
Just to warn you, this is going to be a very random post from the Hokie Guru… the Guru will wander all over the place tonight… the Guru continues his tradition of speaking in the third person: Note: Please use Plain Language in the federal government; don’t talk like the Guru and his third personRead… Read more »
EXTENSION: Obama Leadership Wants Your Input On Open Gov Directive
I’ve been asked to publicize this as the deadline has been extended to March 10th: For Dot Govs (and others) via the MAX Community: The Administration wants to hear your ideas. The goal of this inter-agency brainstorming session is to identify topics that should be addressed in the Directive. There will be 3 parallel conversations,Read… Read more »
Social Media Club launches in Sacramento
Last night I attended the Sacramento launch of the Social Media Club. I’ve been following the events in San Francisco via friends’ Twitter feeds, but had not had the opportunity to attend an SMC event before. Chris Heuer, the co-founder of Social Media Club was there to get things kicked off with a very openRead… Read more »
Memo to Our New Federal Chief Information Officer
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. Vivek Kundra, Washington DC’s own CIO, has been appointed Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO). According to a Washington Technology article, Kundra “… plans to make the massive volumes of government data that isn’t sensitive available to the public through a new Web site, www.data.gov. With more data available to theRead… Read more »
Open Source Government Transparency Projects
A whole cadre of folks inside and outside government are awash with figuring out how to address the government transparency question brought on by the President’s Transparency and Open Government memo. At the end of last weekend’s TransparencyCamp, Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs, brought up the issue of bringing open source developers into theRead… Read more »
Role of cloud computing, web 2.0, and web 3.0 semantic technologies in an era of transparent, collaborative, connected governance?
Brand Niemann (EPA) and I recently organized a a one-day conference / workshop held in Washington, DC on February 17, 2009 on the role of information and communication technologies in an era of connected governance. This wiki page contains the program and all proceedings including presentations, videos, and handouts from the event: From E-Gov toRead… Read more »
Finally on Twitter
I first heard about Twitter through a friend of my wife several months ago and thought it was stupid. I’m a technically savvy guy, but I just didn’t see the need to post my every move for all of my “followers” to see and I really don’t care to get an update each time oneRead… Read more »
Facebook is For Children
I admit, like a number of my friends, I first opened a Facebook account in order to have a window on my children’s world. Some of my friends have told me that their children would be embarrassed to have them as friends — and so they are locked out. Others tell me that one reasonRead… Read more »
Twitter polling tool
Am experimenting with a new Twitter polling tool. Take the poll and let me know what you think of the tool.