Jon Lee

Blaming PowerPoint for a lousy presentation is like my mom blaming her car for backing into a trash can.

I’m going on a limb: the #1 communication trend in 2012 will be internal. I predict that the rise of cloud services will improve our business processes and encourage collaboration across the enterprise. Services like Microsoft 365, Google Apps, Salesforce and others will allow us to collaborate on a single document, retiring the old method of…[Read more]

In Texas, we just passed a bill requiring agencies to post high value data sets. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-local-news/public-information-act/new-laws-push-government-transparency-protect-priv/

However, there are ways for agencies to weasel out of this requirement so it’ll take more than just legislation to keep the movement alive.

Sorry to be verbose, Kelly. In case my point came out jumbled, here it is in less than 140 characters:

Upgrade the INTRANET by replacing a static, web 1.0 arena with dynamic and powerful applications

Government entities can benefit from social media with an inside-out approach. Why do organizations continue talking about how great Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs, and wikis are, but they don’t take advantage of these applications within their own networks? The intranet is a powerful resource that is greatly underutilized in organizations. Most…[Read more]

Here’s the presentation I gave about Twitter and the Public Sector for the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications (TASSCC) Conference on Aug 11, 2009 in Houston TX.

http://www.box.net/shared/tdg7a7fi9a

Thanks for the post Jeffrey! Somebody really took some time to develop this. There are a few things I would do a bit differently, but overall, the most comprehensive policy I’ve seen thus far, and whoever wrote it obviously understands how to leverage Twitter beyond giving status updates and posting news links.

The only immediate gaping hole I…[Read more]

Thanks for the post Adriel, but it’s still too high level. Good idea to retain copies. There are still a lot of “what if?” questions that a lot of public entities don’t consider before they launch into social media. If there were an authoritative body like the W3C who can offer best practices and policy recommendations to offer direction for…[Read more]