Heroes and Villains
The Six Villains of Gov 2.0 or for that matter, social media within organisations. What do the villains in the public sector look like? What do the heroes look like?
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Member-of-the-Week: Sara Estes Cohen
Sara Estes Cohen Project Manager, Teracore, Inc. www.teracore.com Department of Homeland Security First Responder Communities of Practicehttps://communities.firstresponder.gov Govloop.com Gulf Coast Oil Spill Forumhttps://www.govloop.com/group/gulfcoastoilspillforum 1. What was your path to public service/current job? Born and raised in New Orleans, after college I moved home and I was living there and working as a rock and rollRead… Read more »
How do you create a culture of learning and creativity that integrates innovation into daily work?
Reply to @lindanaiman if you can help (looks like an opportunity to me). She writes a cool blog here. Her original tweet follows: @lindanaiman How do you create a #culture of #learning and #creativity that integrates #innovation into daily work? I’m looking for case studies.
Library of Congress Registers Law.gov Domain Name
Registration of the the Law.gov Internet domain name by the Library of Congress appears to be complete, according to the Law.gov domain name registration record in the WHOIS database of .gov domain names published by U.S. General Services Administration Office of Integrated Technology Services (OITS). To display the record, go to the OITS WHOIS databaseRead… Read more »
When Co-workers Hand You Lemons….
Is it really THAT easy to make lemonade? It’s a rainy Saturday here in Alexandria, VA. There are three very professional men from Well Home working in my house right now to make it more green and energy efficient. Well Homehttp://www.wellhome.com has been wonderful. I don’t want to digress however I do want to giveRead… Read more »
Danger in personalizing an organization?
A couple of days ago, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times wrote an article about how trendy it’s become to hate BP and CEO Tony Hayward. She was on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday to talk about the article. The parallel she brought up, and that many others have brought up in covering BP, is toRead… Read more »
The Beginning of Wisdom
“I don’t like Twitter” (Blogger, WordPress, LinkedIn, Facebook, email) “Have you ever used it?” “No.” Starting any new technology can be threatening, especially if you talk yourself into feeling threatened. Starting to compete in government markets, or using open source software can make me feel the subject is so vast it’s like trying to watchRead… Read more »
Employee Wellness Programs
Our Human Resources Department staff have initiated a Workplace Wellness program for County employees. Their first step was to survey employees to identify risk status, demographics, workplace culture, and how staff would best like to receive information about the various programs and challenges the Wellness Committee would deliver. Now that they have decided on theRead… Read more »
Part 2: Hybrid 2.0 – Leveraging Citizen Engagement for Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
In my previous blog post, Hybrid 2.0 – How to leverage social media for emergency management and response, I discussed two existing models for the use of social media in open government: 1. For use in public communication and collaboration: communication among citizens and with the public, leveraged by government agencies and non-profit organizations likeRead… Read more »
Is suggesting things to your boss online, Right?
Today someone called the Community Manager (that’s me) to request that a comment posted by their employee be removed from the intranet site that all 30,000 employees have access to. The comment is in response to a corporately-supported article about supervisors, which invited people to share their thoughts online. The comment that incited the phoneRead… Read more »