Social media followers and fans are not particularly good metric for judging the success or ROI of a social media campaign and I’d advise strongly against measuring success through these numbers alone. However as businesses attach a commercial value to their mailing and email lists, as a corporate asset, I thought it would still beRead… Read more »
I was confronted today by a checklist posted by a friend – 10 questions that “should be asked before your wedding day.” I found the questions absurd, as someone with 29 years of marriage under my belt, and suggested she pass these before long-married couples, and count the ones who say, “yeah, that’s what weRead… Read more »
I write a lot about the importance of web presence for businesses and individuals, how to create it and how to sustain it. But right now authors are in a uniquely powerful and also potentially hazardous position in terms of their web presence, and in this post I want to speak to those issues specifically.Read… Read more »
This post was submitted by our good friends and long-time NCDD members Len and Libby Traubman… Elie Wiesel said, and we experience: “People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.” We are part of a 19-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue preparing for its 238th meeting here on the San Francisco Peninsula. ToRead… Read more »
Back in November 2010 I attended a Garner conference to speak about Gov 2.0. I was also able to attend a workshop about social media use in the banking industry. At the time I estimated that the banking industry was 2-3 years behind government in their social media effectiveness. That impression has been reinforced thisRead… Read more »
Last friday, the President of the Basque Country, Patxi Lopez signed his support to the call for a single opendata license in the EU. Few politicians in Europe are more concious than Patxi Lopez about the value of opendata as an engine for economic activity and a leverage for transparency. Under his government, “Opendata Euskadi”Read… Read more »
The market was moving along nicely last week, looking like it was headed for yet another positive week, but those pesky problems in Greece are not going away and their inability to agree on the details of a bailout plan sent markets down around the world on Friday. The Thrift Savings Plan’s website is performingRead… Read more »
(Note: This post was written by Jennifer Pahlka, Executive Director of Code for America. The author is only listed as Abhi Nemani because of importing issues from CfA’s blog to GovLoop.) For the past few months, Civic Commons has been led by Nick Grossman, formerly of OpenPlans, who was one of the originators of theRead… Read more »
Next week’s release of President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2013 won’t be great news for the government contracting industry, especially as we finally get to see specifics on the long-expected spending cuts. But the information technology (IT) industry has less to fear than what might be expected. In fact, there are opportunities for growthRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Evan Halperin reports. In 2010, Onondaga, Cayuga, Madison, Cortland and Oswego counties worked together to form the Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium (CNYICC). At present time, the Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System (OCICS) is the only one that is fully online. The counties, minus Cortland for the time being, are looking atRead… Read more »