To be a creator is take the step from merely accessing information online (in the form of data or content) to adding new information (again, content or data) online. Using online tools to submit forms or payment also falls into this category. There are countless venues through which people can do this: through apps, governmentRead… Read more »
The Congressional Black Caucus is meeting. Do you have a reason to care? Is there any tangible impact on your business, your life? If you don’t know, it’s time to find out. You’re in luck, OGTV and its partners are live and in person at the forums that shape policy and policy makers. With theRead… Read more »
I didn’t want to know. I was behind on watching “America’s Got Talent”, but I had faithfully DVRed each episode. And then I went on Twitter last night… and that was my downfall. There it was… a tweet from TheDailyBlonde that simply read… “America’s Got Talent Winner Michael Grimm” followed by a link. I didn’tRead… Read more »
A Federal Enterprise Architecture Board (FEAB) would provide “teeth” to further implementing enterprise architecture across government. We have a Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) that provides a government wide framework for architecture strategy and planning, but we do not have a FEA Board to govern the subsequent IT investments through capital planning and investment control (CPIC).Read… Read more »
Just cool, not just cool tech: Noel Dickover: What is Civil Society 2.0? Andrea DiMaio: Social Media and How to Get Rid of Government Portals (and Vendors) Adriel Hampton: An Avatar Picture Worth 1,000 Friends Alex Howard: Tracking the signals of the Gov 2.0 alpha geeks John Moore: For Gov 2.0, tech is the enabler,Read… Read more »
This is a crosspost of: http://www.dotgov.com/blog/ Connecting citizens to their local governments or communities can be tough. This is partly because people now expect to get their day-to-day information in a slick, quick format — from the Internet, and more recently, on their mobile devices. While most cities and towns provide websites to keep citizensRead… Read more »
This is cross-posted from the Tech@State site Civil Society (CS) 2.0 is an effort by the US State Department to galvanize the technology community to be able to assist CS organizations across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to enable CS organizations to harness the latest ICT advances to build their digital capacity.Read… Read more »
This is a post originally appeared at http://nusum.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend/ I was part of an interesting information chain the other day and wanted to share it. No surprise to those of you that know me, I was walking the dogs and received an email on my phone from a colleague who was looking for a freelance contractorRead… Read more »
Do default avatar pictures bother you, or you still shrinking back from showing the world your pearly whites or using an agency logo on a consumer-oriented social media site? It’s often surprising how many new social media users fail to update their generic avatars when starting out. And failing to do so is likely toRead… Read more »
A few days ago, a colleague asked for help with a predicament common in Gov 2.0 circles: how to educate her colleagues, managers, and clients to rely more on a project wiki and less on e-mail? (Broadly defined, a “wiki” can be as simple as a folder or set of folders on a shared hardRead… Read more »