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Is the State Department Wiki Leaks the Beginning of a Nightmare For Open Government?
After three days of consuming the best of cuisine during Thanksgiving holiday, I have once again experienced my usual holiday epiphany to become inspired. It is usually around this time of year, that I personally and professionally aspire to take my goal setting to the next level. Honestly speaking, I am excited about expanded hopesRead… Read more »
The Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: An Introspection
This post originally appeared on my primary blog, “Social Media Strategery.” “The Social Media Strategist must choose one of two career paths – build proactive programs now…or be relegated to ongoing cleanup as social media help desk.” Not surprisingly, Jeremiah Owyang and the Altimeter Group have put together yet another thought-provoking report chock full ofRead… Read more »
3 Reasons Why I Love the Digital IQ Rankings
Recently an organization named L2 released the Public Sector Digital IQ rankings. They provided an assessment and ranking of the digital competence of 100 public sector organizations across four dimensions: Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media and Mobile. It is a pretty fascinating read and some of the top public sector entities were NASA, Army, StateRead… Read more »
NASA Ranks as Most Social Media-Savvy in U.S., Study Says
If organizations that used Facebook to disseminate their message were actual people, NASA would be the captain of the football team and the class president, the White House would be his cheerleader girlfriend and the the Department of Commerce would be the nerd they both pushed into a locker, according to a new study fromRead… Read more »
Root cause of digital divide – wealth
I just ran into a fantastic piece on Mashable that I just has to share. I have been very deeply vested in the topic of Digital Divide in America for some time. I recently wrote a blog post on the subject on govloop that generated some interesting commentary (https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/digital-divide-not-just-for). I have been searching desperately forRead… Read more »
iPad pilot – version 1.5 – More thoughts
First, check out some great comments and my responses In response to my previous post Additional Thoughts: Ok, now some additional thoughts regarding the iPad, in fact, regarding barriers to the mobile revolution in general. 1) Access to secure, reliable, continuous Wifi networks: Read this interesting article the other day and it made me think.Read… Read more »
Information Governance In The Clouds
In the rush to adopt public and hybrid cloud computing services organizations appear to be ignoring the emerging risks to information governance – policy compliance and enforcement – according to a new report from EMC’s Leadership Council for Information Advantage, a blue-chip panel of IT execs. Using IDC data, EMC says 75 percent of ITRead… Read more »
Week 1 of the iPad pilot – The Good, the bad, and the ugly
Link to original post on buzzfreezone So we started the iPad pilot in our agency a week ago. For the record, I am not new to the iPad, having used one pretty much since it came out purely as a personal consumer device. The point of this pilot is to find opportunities for large scaleRead… Read more »
Granicus Releases New Video Player to Help Government Connect with Citizens
Over Thanksgiving, as you think about what you’re thankful for, if your job and the people you serve is one of them, it may be a good time to brainstorm ways your agency can forge deeper connections with citizens through video. In our most recent blog post, we discuss a new video player that weRead… Read more »