Microsoft Research came out with some very interesting research looking specifically at the act of retweeting on Twitter. If you’d like to read the full paper it is available for download in PDF format. Note that the following Twitter pros were behind the research: Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research, @zephoria Scott Golder, Cornell / Microsoft Research,Read… Read more »
Hi there Govloop colleagues The CeBIT Gov 2.0 Conference is being held in Canberra this November. Lot’s of speakers. Yours truly will be speaking at the conference from the perspective of Public Servant and Founder, OZloop. I hope I can do it justice. What I intend to do is tell a bit of a storyRead… Read more »
Get your gov on! Candi Harrison: Customers Know Best – It’s Their Results that Count Andrea DiMaio: Open Government … To Whom? Sen. Kate Lundy: The Declaration of Open Government Kevin Merritt: Why Do We Need an Open Data Benchmark Study? Mike Loukides: App Inventor and the culture wars Andrew P. Wilson: The President’s SAVERead… Read more »
On 16 July Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation issued the Declaration of Open Government on behalf of the Australian Government. A fantastic job by many people with talent, foresight, courage and passion. Absolutely fantastic and a breath of fresh air for public servants and the community. Now the hard work begins to createRead… Read more »
I had the pleasure of chatting with Amita Paul, CEO of ObjectiveMarketer. She started the company in August of 2009 and has focused on delivering a solid tool for Enterprise users. While the company has focused on the tool first, and not marketing and sales, they have been able to work with customers like Answers.comRead… Read more »
Joe Carmel, formerly of the U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Computer Systems Unit, has posted LegisLink.Org: Simplified Human-Readable URLs for Legislative Citations, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Carmel describes LegisLink.org, an innovative, collaboratively developed URL redirection service for legislative documents. LegisLinkRead… Read more »
Today, I attended Everything Channel’s 2010 State of the Market presentation, a great annual scorecard on the state of technology solutions provider channels. The typical survey respondent books about $3.5 million in annual revenues, in b-2-b transactions (no retail data here) so it’s a real-world look at issues facing technology solutions providers across many verticalRead… Read more »
Have you discovered Anne Holland’s wonderful website, “Which Test Won?” I discovered it through a recent Gerry McGovern article, “It’s Not What People Say – It’s What They Do;” and – of course – I had to play. Each week, Anne posts two side-by-side test sites. She tells you what specific element or words wereRead… Read more »
Used Google Translate to offer the GovLoop community a glimpse of what’s happening with a sister community over in the Netherlands: Week 28 … Again, no World Cup, a grand welcome in Amsterdam. Netherlands loves to celebrate. The heat of summer days and holidays will thus gradually affect the activities ambtenaar20.nl. Also for editors. ThisRead… Read more »
What is going on these days? It seems that the Internet and social networking has made the world flat. What do we mean by this? Well, amateur sleuths can serve as GEOINT analysts by finding top secret locations in North Korea on Google Earth. And, now it was just reported that a Facebook group forRead… Read more »