Posted Originally to Bright Side of Government By Kristin Bockius, State & Local Government Social Media Marketing Manager Federal budget watchdogs and other observers know that agencies historically have reported the performance results for their spending and programs at the end of each fiscal year as required by the Government Performance and Results Act. InRead… Read more »
One of the key issues, aside from and never forgetting a good Social Media Policy, is the allotment of resources to maintain and monitor your various forums. Many of the various forums allow you to port (import) or stream one thread platform into another. For example, I utilize FaceBook as my onestop center, and IRead… Read more »
The hot new thing in government is open government, transparency, collaboration, participation . . . watch how often you see those words in memos and news conferences and government tweets. At ForeSee Results, we study how effectively government websites (and private sector sites) are satisfying citizens and how that satisfaction leads to return visits, loyalty,Read… Read more »
Oh what a bad day! Let’s see. First I almost was hit by a crazy truck driver who wanted to move back and forth between lanes in rush hour traffic. (I really need to telework) Then I get to work and my CAC pin does not work. Now let’s examine this for a moment. ItRead… Read more »
Hafa Adai Fellow GovLoopers! It’s been a while since I last blogged (more like vented) here in GovLoop, so here goes nothing! On Guam, a bill – Bill No. B215-30 (LS) – FOIA update.pdf – was introduced by one of our local senators – Senator Ray Tenorio (R) – regarding updates to the local versionRead… Read more »
Republished from O’Reilly Radar Blog Post by Tim O’Reilly Original post can be found here As many of you know, I’ve built a new conference, Gov 2.0 Summit, around the idea of the government as platform: how can government design programs to be generative, to use Zittrain’s phrase? How do we get beyond the ideaRead… Read more »
Dr. Joel C. Sercel, President and Founder, ICS Associates Aristotle is facebook for geeks, by and For DoD scientists and engineers (Applied Minds) 7 habits of highly effective Web/Gov 2.0 Enterprises More beta! Know your user base Active outreach — PR and marketing — is crucial for gov20 Active gardening (cleaning out the weeds andRead… Read more »
Dan Sheerin, Deputy Director, eDiplomacy Office, US Dept of State Lessons learned from Diplopedia and Communities @ State One thing we’re doing: Bring diplomats into the IT decision-making process Online collaboration / crowdsourcing tool — the “Secretary’s Inbox” — for suggestions and ideas for Secretary of State Clinton. How do we use technology in thisRead… Read more »
Jack Holt, Department of Defense, Sr. Strategist for New Media Use of social media as leadership. President’s call for open, transparent, collaborative government. The core of my job is to get people to think differently. Think differently about what we’re doing, how we’re doing, etc. First high speed network? Hard surface Roman roads. Public roadsRead… Read more »
I posted this here last night but took it down because it felt too personal and too much about my story. The reason I wrote it this way is because I didn’t want to presume why it should matter to other people, but rather describe why it matters to me and let others find commonalityRead… Read more »