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Leveraging social business strategies in public policy

I am always asking people what they are doing with Social Business Strategies and Daniel Bevarly, Director for Online Strategies for The Collins Center for Public Policy, reached out to share some interesting information with me. The Collins Center is a not-for-profit public policy think tank in Florida. As they note on their web site,Read… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – August 3, 2010

Shouldn’t I be sleeping? Carol A. Spencer: Convincing Local Governments Tom Fox: Young government leaders – Lessons for the next generation Spencer Wilson: Can’t See the Social for the Media Sharon Weinberger: Pentagon Goes Wiki with Crowdsourced Tech Project Clay Johnson: Don’t Let the Municipal Crisis Go to Waste Jeff Stanger: Data Are Not InformationRead… Read more »

Monitor your brand on the cheap with SocialMention

You know people are chatting about you, your organization, or your brand on social media channels (or you hope they are). The problem is that most organizations cannot afford to spend money on expensive listening platforms and are often left scratching their heads about how best to approach this need without spending money. SocialMention providesRead… Read more »

Federal Hiring Under Expedited Process

The Air Force will try to fill 700 cybersecurity positions under an expedited process. The “Schedule A” approach allows the service to proceed without posting or publicizing positions. Meanwhile, the administration is working to streamline the government’s overall hiring process, which now requires an average of 140 days to hire. “When you think about theRead… Read more »

Reiling on IT and the Access to Justice Crisis

Judge Dory Reiling, mag. iur., Ph.D., Vice President of the Amsterdam District Court, has posted IT and the Access to Justice Crisis, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In her post — which is based on a chapter in her recent book entitled Technology for Justice:Read… Read more »

Shark Week and Contracting – Get Your Ideas on AllThingsSterling

Boo Halloween. Shove it Thanksgiving. Down with Christmas. It’s the best time of the year — Shark Week! Whether you’re freightened or terrified of these seagoing monsters, there’s no denying they’re amazing. Multiple rows of teeth. Sweet tails. Crazy-powerful jaws. (You should to see the Tiger Shark jaws haning in my apartment.) Good Lord they’reRead… Read more »

Convincing Local Governments

Notes From NAGWThe question I hear most often when I present about Morris County’s use of social media is “how did you convince your governing body to do this?” Governments need to be in social media because their constituents are in social media. It’s really that simple. Readership statistics tell the story. Newspaper readership isRead… Read more »