I attended Vivek Kundra’s talk at an NVTC break this past Saturday, April 25th. Vivek challenged the audience and the federal government to rethink how to reach the public in their ‘daily digital life’ and to find innovative paths to deliver services. He underlined the importance of the federal government to attract the best ‘humanRead… Read more »
The Obama administration launched a seven-day “high tech roundtable” today to solicit ideas from IT professionals, government contractors, federal employees and other concerned citizens with ideas on how to build and operate Recovery.gov, the economic stimulus-tracking Web site. TheNationalDialogue.org will collect the Recovery.gov ideas between today and May 3. Users can submit their ideas withRead… Read more »
Looking for policies regarding use of web 2.0 such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. – both for setting up “official” pages and general staff use.
1. Most business happens outside of meetings. Virtual worlds increase serendipitous meetings that would not happen on video conference, webinars, teleconferences etc… 2. New Value Proposition Web 1.0 Access/find Web 2.0 share/participate/collaborate Web 3.0 co-create 3. Co-creation is the most experiential 4. Virtual Worlds provide a Cohesion of Presence (Herbeck) – this is why weRead… Read more »
I absolutely love this article and thought I would share it with the GovLoop Community. Government managers are often told that they should look to the private sector on how to run their organizations. While government can certainly learn from best practices in the private sector, I have included a piece below that talks aboutRead… Read more »
The weekend should have been pretty quiet. But then the Department of Homeland Security and the CDC held a news conference on Sunday, warning about the spreading of swine flu. On Sunday, there were 20 cases in the U.S. Today, there are 40 cases. And with the deaths of more than 100 people in MexicoRead… Read more »
Can you imagine? The Anacostia River is one of only two in the Nation that have been designated as “impaired by trash”. How odd is that? The community around the Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Bladensburg, MD thought it was a distinction they’d rather not have and got together last week to remove 59 tons ofRead… Read more »
At Sunday afternoon’s White House press briefing on the administration’s efforts to combat and control a potential swine flu outbreak, press secretary Robert Gibbs was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, deputy national security adviser John Brennan, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Dr. Richard Besser. Noticeably absent on stage wasRead… Read more »
Well friends, I come to you again with my stories from the trenches and queries to stimulate your thinking. There is lots of news about the current administration’s intent to apply sound stewardship to funds appropriated in the the most recent spending bills, i.e. (ARRA) American Recovery & Reinvestement Act of 2009, (TARP) Troubled AssetRead… Read more »
Google trends helps see what is popular. What people are searching for as well as news reports. There are some stable searches like wine or Britney spears. Swine flu has passed them both in the past 30 days. Before that swine flu was so low Google report “not enough data” Here is the graph ofRead… Read more »
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