When I announced I would be moving to New York City for graduate school, I received the predictable responses. “It’s so dangerous!” “You’ll get mugged!” “You’ll get shot!” And of course, “New Yorkers are so rude!” Once transplanted, it didn’t take me long to discover that New Yorkers are in fact, not rude. They’re simplyRead… Read more »
I’m working on our new agency web-site. Actually I’ve been working on it for quite some time now – it’s a monster of a site with tons of content. Here’s my work in progress: http://djfs.co.seneca.oh.us/cmsmadesimple/. Nothing really Web 2.0 about it, we’re still focused on the Web 1.0 stuff. And, yes, this is a difficultRead… Read more »
What are you working on? It’s the “What’s your major?” for IT people. It’s a basis for commonality and future discussion. Go ahead and create a new blog post and tell us what you’re working on. Tell us about the technology that your using. Tell us the choices you’ve made and why you’ve made them.Read… Read more »
A tweet came across recently about a website that is working to prioritize political issues at a local level based on people input (essentially similar to change.gov – share your idea). I think the idea of a non-partisan, transparent, framework for identifying and promoting the strength/concern of a particular issue is great…. unfortunately, I thinkRead… Read more »
The Singapore government is on Facebook. Why? Dr Amy Khor, Member of Parliament, Mayor of Singapore’s Southwest district and Chairman of government feedback agency REACH, has the answers. Interview: Alice Kok For government feedback agency ‘REACH Singapore’, new media is a key opportunity to drive public feedback and citizen participation. An acronym for “Reaching EveryoneRead… Read more »
Everyone is anxiously awaiting the announcement of President-elect Obama’s nomination for the nation’s first federal chief technology officer to create the transparent and connected democracy he has espoused. According to Obama’s outline, the CTO will be charged with ensuring that agencies “have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century” and will leadRead… Read more »
One of the wonderful FCW.com links on the GovLoop home page lists the CWE/SANS Institute’s top 25 Software Programming Errors at http://www.sans.org/top25. It specifically lifts out architecture and implementation errors that cause vulnerabilities in Web 2.0 applications. Good stuff! (if you’re a geek, I suppose)
adrielhampton.com – Why do you care what an anonymous commenter says on the Internet? I don’t, and one of my goals as a Government 2.0 advocate is to end the practice of any serious site condoning a culture of anonymity. If Web 2.0 is to flourish into a lasting culture, it must lead to trueRead… Read more »
I’m a policy advisor at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, in the final stages of writing a set of administrative rules (regulating composting facilities,) with a public comment period set to begin March 1. The rules have a number of unique, new governance features, and I would really like to have the broadest possibleRead… Read more »
I just posted a feature on Steve Ressler and GovLoop here: http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33549/govloop_a_social_network_for_public_servants It starts: Are you a local elected official looking for advice from your peers on how to make better use of web technologies to relate to your constituents? Or perhaps you’re a government IT specialist looking for support in your battles with footdraggingRead… Read more »