Greetings from our nation’s capital, home to over 2,000 of our nation’s 7,600 trade associations. No surprise, as one of the main functions of a trade association is to influence public policy. Add to that hefty number all our regional and state sub-associations, and the legions of lobbyists and industrial relations consultants and… well, youRead… Read more »
Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the latest at Gov 2.0 Radio. We’re still a by-the-seat-of-the-pants operation, but our guests and great co-hosts (Steve Ressler of GovLoop and Steve Lunceford of GovTwit) more than make up for my scant production skills. I also want to take this opportunity to thanks all ofRead… Read more »
This is an open question to all readers. What kinds of performance management software tools do you use in your agency or organization and can you provide the names of software tools? We have a tool we’ve developed called Gov-Metrics but I’m curious what others are using to assist them in gathering and reporting data.Read… Read more »
While OZloop is not as big as Govloop, given the concerns about Facebook we have dumped them. Up to individuals what they do of course. When Facebook decides to behave, as it were, like a good corporate citizen (dare I say social citizens), then obviously this can be reconsidered. Frankly, there is too much atRead… Read more »
Dr. Richard Hilhorst of Raad van State and Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the Leibniz Center for Law at the University of Amsterdam, have published E-dossier at the Dutch Council of State: Design, Implementation and Lessons Learned, in ICT4JUSTICE 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT Solutions for Justice, Skopje, FYR Macedonia,Read… Read more »
Posted on Ozloop – A plague on all your houses I am advocating that Facebook be compelled to indicate that all these sites are not official. The major reason being that citizens need to be confident about engaging with sites active in the Gov 2.0 space. This latest twist from Facebook has the potential toRead… Read more »
Not my terminology, but a term used by a citizen when posting to the AGIMO blog in Australia. You might want to check out Medeleine Kingston’s (Citizen stakeholder) comments on the AGIMO blog. The question running through my mind is what should be done to attract citizens to Gov 2.0 and support and practices needRead… Read more »
Since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to focus on making performance management practical. I wrote some months ago about the what Fortune magazine called “The World’s Most Modern Management Idea” when companies implemented policies that focused on staff satisfaction, after research linked happy employees to investor profits. This is known as the service valueRead… Read more »
Professor Roberto Fragale Filho of Universidade Federal Fluminense Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Direito and Fundação Getúlio Vargas will present a paper entitled Increasing Judicial Transparency: When Brazilian Court TV Officially Meets YouTube, at ECEG 2010: The 10th European Conference on eGovernment, to be held 17-18 June 2010, at the University of Limerick, inRead… Read more »