FCC Releases API for License Data

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has released application programming interfaces (APIs) for four of its data collections, including FCC licensing data, through the License View API. Respecting the licensing data, the Commission’s instructional page says: The FCC issues licenses for use of the nation’s airwaves and other purposes. License View API provides snapshots suchRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 10, 2010

Standards make the world go ’round: Curt Hopkins: Civic Commons Helps Municipalities Share Code Arindam Mukherjee: Open standards is at hand as the main e-governance platform (India) Steve Ressler: The War of Online vs. Offline Gunnar Hellekson: The government doesn’t look good naked Lewis Shepherd: Contributing to Intelligence Innovation Matt Stiles: Visualizing Foreign Business inRead… Read more »

How To Analyze Use of Twitter and Other Social Media

© Creative Commons adriel [at] adrielhampton.com September 5, 2010 One Saturday, I noticed that my pal Nick Charney was getting a lot of buzz on Twitter while speaking at a big conference. In addition to his fearless innovation, Charney is well-known for his hairstyle, long bangs with a flip. I decided to have a littleRead… Read more »

World Paper Free Day – October 28 2010

I posted an event on here a while ago about the AIIM World Paper Free Day that the Industry Association, AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) are organizing. I wanted to draw your attention to some of the events going on worldwide, and ask if any of you are interested in getting involved andRead… Read more »

Is the Networked World Killing your Contracts & Procurement: What About Innovation?

Excerpt from Tim Cummin’s Blog Impacts Of The Networked World On Contracts & Procurement The impacts of the networked world have been significant for most of the world’s population, but perhaps more so for those in the world of contracts and procurement than many others. · Emerging generations are ‘no longer capable of deep thought’Read… Read more »

Thanks For The Paycheck

Celebrate your paychecks and salute the people who make it happen! National Payroll Week — September 6-10, 2010 National Payroll Week celebrates the hard work by America’s 156 million wage earners and the payroll professionals who pay them. Together, through the payroll withholding system, they contribute, collect, report and deposit approximately $1.7 trillion, or 71.9%,Read… Read more »

Do You Have What it Takes to Change Government and Create Gov 2.0?

As I’ve said many times before, Government 2.0 isn’t about technology, but what that technology enables. When the TSA rolls out an initiative like the IdeaFactory, developing and implementing the technology is the easy part (disclosure: my company has supported the IdeaFactory project). When the GSA implements the Better Buy Project, getting UserVoice up andRead… Read more »

Have you met Mr. Diplopedia?

It’s easy to convince our social media gurus to contribute to the State Department wiki, but what about those State Department Employees that aren’t so keen on sharing their hard earned knowledge and expertise. How do we get them to understand the versatility of a wiki platform, and not just pass it off as aRead… Read more »