Tech

Just Because I Can Buy A Scalpel

Today, Leonard Sipes posted a narritive in GovLoop ; a nich social marketing wateringhole that focuses on the Federal space. My take-away from his post was that social marketing is cheap and necessary – thus everyone should be doing it … just hire community college students to do it for you. The social web isRead… Read more »

The State of Open Data 2011

What is the state of the open data movement? Yesterday, during my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk from last year’s conference. Here’s my take of where we are today (I’ll post/link to a video of the talk asRead… Read more »

The GEICO Gecko’s Epic Journey Continues

Happy Friday everyone! As we have seen, the GEICO Gecko has begun a journey across the nation Where has the his epic quest taken him? Check out this week’s GEICO Friday Fun Video to find out! If only the Gecko could us money on parking tickets… ——————————————— GEICO was created in 1936 to provide autoRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up – October 21, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda First the bad news. QR Codes are now being infected. This is all very Snow Crash. Next, some good news. Fierce Government is reporting that government employee’s use of social media is growing. Key take-away: “Thirty-seven percent of federal workers said they are permitted to use social media as representatives of their agency.Read… Read more »

Your Fear of Social Media—I Don’t Have the Staff or Money

Http://LeonardSipes.Com Third in a series on the fear some people in government, associations and nonprofits express when whey contemplate social media. I listened to one of my social media podcasts where they were discussing the fact that tech-related conferences were filled to the brim with new exhibitors. When asked why, they all agreed that theRead… Read more »

ACUS Calls for Public Comment Software

Readers of the govloop.com blog may find this post on the ACUS recommendations regarding public comment analysis software interesting. We spent 10 years researching the problem of mass email campaigns and built a variety of prototype solutions. Over 300 federal agency personnel attended workshops and focus groups during the decade-long design process. About $4 millionRead… Read more »