GovTwit Week in Review 9/14 – 9/20

Lots of interesting stories and discussion continued the week after Gov 2.o Summit, so let’s get to it… As pointed out in a Washington Post story, Tweeting Their Own Horns, many politicians spend most of their time on Twitter promoting themselves. This according to a study of 6,000 tweets over the summer by researchers atRead… Read more »

Finding Clinical Trial Results – National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) Resources

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) responds to more than 100,000 questions each year. Regularly asked questions become Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NLM Reference and Consumer Health FAQs are at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqref.html. We review and update our FAQs frequently. The FAQ resources include national and international government agencies and non-profit organizations. One of our FAQs isRead… Read more »

Introduction to Virtural Worlds Workshop – Free

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory is hosting an introduction to virtual worlds workshop for the Technology Sig of the Metro DC Chapter of ASTD on Wednesday September 23rd at the ADL Co-Laboratory Hub, 1901 N Beauregard Street, Alexandria VA 22311. We are opening this workshop to individuals and groups beyond ASTD. If you orRead… Read more »

Our first major public outreach project is up at K-TOC

and the early results are mixed but encouraging. KDOT has undertaken a new approach to project selection. This summer the agency completed the Comprehensive Transportation Program, a long-range transportation plan that controlled KDOT’s construction and spending priorities for a decade. The CTP iwas a successor to the Comprehensive Highway program, also a 10-year transportation plan,Read… Read more »

Create Web Metrics Reports that Rock

Join Jennifer Veesenmeyer of Stratigent for Web Manager University’s webinar: Creating Web Metrics Reports that Rock to learn how good metrics can help you build a strong business case for your web efforts. Webinar Description: A great web metrics report can be a powerful tool to communicate business insights. In this webinar, Jennifer Veesenmeyer willRead… Read more »

Breaking a Bottle on the New Digital Sandbox Site

PeakTwo is pleased to announce the launch of a new site for our client Digital Sandbox, a heavy hitter in risk analysis software and threat assessment consultation. Development required aligning several objectives: From a messaging standpoint, the site has to convey rock-solid solution performance and an ironclad understanding of security objectives for state, local, andRead… Read more »

TSP Talk: Options Week Over… Can Rally Continue?

Good morning! It’s your govloop weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. Stocks bounced back somewhat on Friday as the Dow picked up 36-points and the TSP stock funds were up a modest 0.02% to 0.26%. The bond fund dropped 0.26%. We speculated a little last week that, despiteRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Glitz and Gab—Right Track, Wrong Track?

Throughout 2009, the Gov 2.0 community has grappled with substance, tenor and tone for a new era of social communication, and more specifically, “social production”. How can and will citizens, government employees, and stakeholders add value to government processes? (See, The Value of Networks, Yochai Benkler). In an almost non-stop series of 2009 conferences, GovRead… Read more »

Postscript two: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster

Following the almost universally badly received launch of the new Birmingham City Council website local developer Mark Steadman posted a challenge on his blog: Why don’t those who are busy complaining and building independent fixes to problems that only concern people who know or care what hashtags are*, get together and build an alternative CouncilRead… Read more »