There are certainly more and more Government Agencies jumping on the band wagon to follow President Obama’s directive for them to become more collaborative, open, transparent and participatory. But the real question is – what measures are being taken to evaluate the success or failure of all these efforts? I’m writing an article for eContentRead… Read more »
[Note: This is a cross post from my blog; the original and its comments can be found here.] I’ll be honest. I’m frustrated. I’m frustrated that people still question the value of an enterprise-wide wiki like GCPEDIA. after all no one seems to question the value of Intellipedia. Before I continue, I want to beRead… Read more »
I live in a small town, as I have mentioned before. Like most cities and towns around the country, budgets are tight and public employees are facing the crisis as hard, if not harder, than the private sector. Now, stay with me for a second as I am looking to make a point beyond theRead… Read more »
The most interesting development in KDOT’s ongoing exploration of social media is our plan to launch an internal online community later this spring. Unlike K-TOC, which is open to all and is used by the agency as a public-outreach tool, the new community will be strictly limited to KDOT employees and is intended for internalRead… Read more »
In the complicated web that is the federal government, mine safety concerns fall to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, which is part of the Labor Department. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis e-mailed MSHA workers Tuesday morning to thank them for their response to Monday’s deadly mine blast in West Virginia. “The last 20 hours haveRead… Read more »
Attending The Digital Signage Show in Las Vegas means a chance to learn about content at the Cooking Up Content series with Noventri. The Digital Signage Show and KioskCom 2010 has made it a priority to address the needs of organizations to develop customer engagement programs that include kiosks, digital signage and multiple digital mediaRead… Read more »
Launched April 1, Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK) unveiled a wiki to fill volunteer positions for twenty-five projects focused on technology, innovation, and all things digital. The ten-day festival is designed to promote digital literacy, drive economic (re)development and improve the interconnectedness of Washington, D.C. residents and their government. Similar to Austin, Texas’ SXSW festival (whereRead… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! A new government audit faults the federal government’s mine inspection agency for poorly retraining veteran mine safety inspectors in recent years. The watchdog report was published just days before a West Virginia mine explosion Monday that left at least 25 mine workers dead. The Mine Safety and Health Administration hired more than 350Read… Read more »
Several examples of how the URN:LEX legal identifier standard can be applied to US legal documents, have been posted on LexCraft, the wiki for sharing best practices in legal information systems development, hosted by the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School. URN:LEX is one of the legal metadata standards proposed to be usedRead… Read more »
Street-level innovations in mobile money are sparking advanced, mobile banking business plans… a catalyst for providers of banking and telecommunications to reach the remaining 3-or-so billion humans who don’t own a mobile phone (1 in 2 of us, roughly). The personal, convenient nature of mobile phones – which, according to Jan Chipchase, Nokia’s chief usabilityRead… Read more »