An EPA social media success: ongoing participatory photo project

I get asked regularly for successful examples of using social media, so here’s one. Forty years ago, EPA hired photographers to capture our world, with a special focus on environmental issues. That was the Documerica project. For the past two years, EPA has invited everyone around the world to repeat that effort, sharing photos withRead… Read more »

A New Role for Mobile Apps: Reach More People

Everyday 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created (IBM: What is Big Data?). The increasing development of mobile technologies makes this data creation even easier by allowing us to search, upload, Tweet, photograph, and produce content from almost anywhere in the world at any time. With all this new, exciting data constantly surrounding us,Read… Read more »

The beginning and end of customer journeys

One of the things I like about gov.uk is that if you spot a little glitch and ask them to fix it, they probably will. Even better, they make it easy to do that by having a feedback link on every page, thus encouraging behaviour which is to the benefit of all. Another thing IRead… Read more »

TurboTax for Contracts is here!

Some of us in the 1102 community have called for a TurboTax like solution to picking contract clauses for the past few years. Well, DOD has answered our prayers. http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA001481-13-DPAP.pdf

Weekly Round-up: April 26, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Securities. On HowTo.Gov, Justin Herman exhorts his fellow govvies: “Government Must Rapidly Respond to Social Media Hacking“ FedTech reports that “Mobile Security Is Top of Mind for Government IT Professionals” which is important, becuase “For Defense Department Agencies, Mobile Technology Can Save Lives, Property and Time“ GovLoop and Symantec put “CyberRead… Read more »

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Are Minimum Wage Increases Really Affordable?

This one comes to us from today’s headlines of today’s USDoL Newsletter… The full text of these findings are quite interesting: Opinion Poll: Small Businesses Support Increasing Minimum And how would this bottom-up stimulus effect Govies? How many of us feel like they we have “more purchasing power” these days? Would this type of increaseRead… Read more »