Collaborative technologies apply flattening pressure to hierarchical organizational structures by diffusing the ability to publish, share and disseminate information. For example consider the action of publishing something to the corporate intranet compared to an enterprise wiki. Intranet Publishing is a Linear Process This linear process is designed to ensure compliance with a broad set ofRead… Read more »
Research Victorian Government (Australia) 2.0 Action Plan (07/2010) – Details how to systematically embed Web 2.0 techniques and tools into government. Highlights four priority areas plus steps to reform public sector culture, build capability, engage proactively, and innovate iteratively. http://www.dtf.vic.gov.au/CA257310001D7FC4/WebObj/20100812Government2/$File/20100812%20Government%202.0%20action%20plan.pdf News 1. YouTube and Automatic Captioning (08/2010) – YouTube and Google Video now offer automaticRead… Read more »
Get your work week on: Ed Chi: Mind-meld in Group Decision Making Michael Gurstein: Open Data – Empowering the Empowered, or Effective Data Use for Everyone? Dan Woods: 10 Corporate Social Media Mistakes Economist: Untangling the social web Alex Howard: “Spontaneous collaboration” and other lessons from the private sector and Bringing open government to theRead… Read more »
I attended a sales seminar where the presenter and the audience were agreeing that being called in to give a buyer “three bids’ was a bad thing, a waste of time. I musta had a depraved upbringing, because I always found a high percentage of those calls resulted in transactions. The way I see it,Read… Read more »
Happy Labor Day, and thank you, organized labor!Benjamin Strong: Federal Employee Internet Bill of RightsIrish Times: Innovation in the city Peter Klein: Analyzing the Wikileaks DataJenifer Levini: Easier living through government transparencyAdriel Hampton: How To – Write a News Analysis of Political Use of Twitter and Other Social MediaGov 2.0 Radio: SaaS Before the CloudRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio Join Gov 2.0 Radio producer Adriel Hampton for a conversation with IdeaScale co-founder Rob Hoehn. In the fourth of our series on crowdsourcing, innovation and ideation in the government and enterprise, Rob talks about how business clients are learning from the government, being SaaS beforeRead… Read more »
This ought to give you a hint of what I’m doing on Labor Day (tip of the hat to MStrawther who created this video)… Virginia Tech and Boise State play on Monday night at 8 PM EST on ESPN… in front of the nation… and I’ll be there in person… How are you celebrating LaborRead… Read more »
What if ………… My son has recently become a Call of Duty, World at War addict. For those of you not familiar with this popular game it is what is referred to as a “first person shooter” in which players collaboratively take on other players in global cyber space. The game was first released forRead… Read more »
My last post here on GovLoop stirred up quite a hornets nest and attracted all sorts of attention. Many folks offered their own horror stories while other provided excellent suggestions (like stop using IT policy as HR policy) or provided links to tools to help discuss social networking to our bosses. I work in marketingRead… Read more »
BBQ reading: Alex Howard: State CIOs rank cloud computing, green IT and social media as top emerging tech Mark Malseed and Lisa Diane: The Hatch Act and Social Media – 6 Plain Language Answers Josh van Tonder: Interviews with Open Government Innovators (video) Economist: The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution Ted Schadler: ITRead… Read more »