At the Foreign Office, we’ve made a small song and dance about the 3,000th tweet of the @foreignoffice twitter account. I can hide such vanity by noting that the 3,000th tweet is no morimportant than the 2,999 or the 3,001 (and less so if this blog is the subject). Yet it feels like a milestone,Read… Read more »
The data, it connects us: David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization Austin Carr: Candidates Turn to YouTube for Geo-Specific Ad Campaigns for Mid-term Elections Sean Reilly: Future of rule making – Pilot project aims to increase public participation Andrew Wilson: Envisioning a More Social Future for Public Health Amelia Chen: Twitter is Buzziest inRead… Read more »
Below I have posted the links for those interested in catching up on some of my previous blogs, which mostly pre-date my joining GovLoop. Feel free to comment or criticize as you see fit. If it helps me (or anybody else) develop, then that’s a good result as far as I’m concerned. 20 July 2010:Read… Read more »
Notes From NAGWI “grew up” in IT when applications were flow-charted, lines of code written, compiled, debugged, compiled again, then deployed and hopefully documented. And the process took forever. Ask mainframe users. Early last year, when we launched social media in Morris County, I spent forever (in today’s terms… about a week) figuring out throughRead… Read more »
For the last year, I’ve been blogging about the three pillars of the Open Government Initiative—transparency, participation and collaboration—both on my featured series on Govloop and Phase One Consulting Group’s Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog. Each pillar points at the same theme: the Government cannot provide the best value with taxpayer dollars on itsRead… Read more »
In recent years, social media has emerged as the hottest Internet phenomenon ever created. Yet, despite its prominence as the number one online activity, the promise that social media holds for governments, businesses, educators, and politicians has yet to be fully realized. This is due in large part to (1) a variety of incorrect mythsRead… Read more »
With the emphasis on change and new ways of doing things and all the new tools that are now available to us, the fact is that the fundamentals remain the same – sale – delivery – service…and are as powerful as ever. Back to the basics, augmented by the now technology – remember it allRead… Read more »
@digiphile has written a great article on why women in technology is important to the field. Read and support the women in tech in your world. http://bit.ly/92Yn69
It’s not often that I read a study and really enjoy myself, maybe that’s because most of them go over my head, but this morning thanks to NextGov I stumbled on this: Who’s Social Media Savvy in the Senate View more presentations from GovLoop. The study breaks down which Senators truly harness social media andRead… Read more »
Links to get those ideas flowing:Bill Brantley: Does Gov 2.0 Lead to Improved Government? Proving the CaseAlex Howard: Tracking the tech that will make government betterJoel Rubin: Stopping crime before it startsOhMyGov!: Social Media Myths – 5 Roadblocks to DiscoveryLovisa Williams: Everyone is a Public Affairs OfficerGov 2.0 Radio: Podcast – Ideation and Innovation withRead… Read more »