Communications, Miscellaneous

NZ public sector wins big in global communication awards

NB: this is a copy-paste of a blog post from IABC Wellington: www.iabcwellington.co.nz ========================================================= New Zealand public sector communications campaigns were prominent among winners of the prestigious 2009 Gold Quill Award for excellence in communication announced by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). New Zealand winners included Immigration New Zealand, for its MAGNET migrantRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

“Sweet GovTweet” Monday 20th April 2009 edition

Apologies for errors in advance: @krazykriz: #GovLoop Members: Get ready for the Open Gov & Innovations Conference: @OGIConference #ogi Website: http://twurl.nl/1egn0x @krazykriz: “Focus on transparency in government has led to mountains of data on websites.” How do we better share this amount of data? #gov20 #govloop @maherltd: Agree w/ @ariherzog: One way of sharing theRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

Workshop to explore social-media privacy

This just in from FCW (Federal computer weekly) “The Homeland Security Department’s privacy office will hold a conference to explore the use of social media as if affects security and privacy. The “Government 2.0: Privacy and Best Practices” conference will be held June 22 to June 23 in Washington and is open to the public.Read… Read more »

Career, Tech

Creative Application Contests: Engaging Developers in the Public Sphere

(note: This is a repost from www.wikinomics.com. To view the original post with all hyperlinks and comments, click here) Last November, Vivek Kundra, current CIO of the USA and former CTO of DC, launched Apps for Democracy, a contest designed to crowdsource the best public sector data-mashup applications from private developers. The top submissions fromRead… Read more »

Communications, Miscellaneous, Tech

Why Not To Throw Out Your Promotional Efforts In A Recession

The recession in our country is real. In most cases, it’s the same everywhere else in the world. Most businesses and/or government agencies are cutting costs wherever they can, making their operations run on the bare essentials. For the most part, running “lean and mean” is a great idea; however, reacting too hastily may causeRead… Read more »

Uncategorized

Government Fact for the Day

Random government fact: 12 million U.S. passports are issued annually by the U.S. State Department. Source: Partnership for Public Service 2007 Annual Report

Tech

Federal Eye: State Dept. Hosting High-Tech Execs in Iraq

Several executives from well-known high tech firms are in Iraq this week as guests of the State Department, part of an effort to boost the use of online and social media in the war-torn country. While in Iraq, the tech representatives will meet with government officials, educators and other community leaders to talk about howRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

Real. Simple. Social. Enabling fellow public servants in a push for improved online presence and engagement.

Ironically my division at work used to have the acronym RSS. Confusing for a web management division. A change of acronyms later, and I am still holding onto my own RSS principle. Real. Simple. Social. More and more often I am being called upon to provide small groups in the policy and advocacy streams withRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

The Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI) Opens its Call for Participation

I attended eDemocracyCamp yesterday in DC. In his introductory remarks, Andrew Cohen tied recent Government 2.0 conferences back to President Obama’s January 2009 Transparency Memo nicely by saying: – TransparencyCamp was about transparency – Government 2.0 Camp was about collaboration – eDemocracyCamp is about participation OGI — the Open Government & Innovations conference — isRead… Read more »