Patrick Quinn

hey John–

Love the video blog.

Re Gov 2.0, what is “enhanced value”?

(I’m a little over-scheduled today, but I’ll get back here as often as I can.)

Vy helpful. Thanks to all.

All of these discussions are premised on an absurd notion of the time required for large societies to adapt to change. If the success metric for new media and government transparency is, “Has it changed the Universe in the 24 hours since it was introduced?”, then of course new media and transparency will “fail.” This is precisely equivalent to…[Read more]

Cialdini is incorrect, insofar as “modern life” = “now.” We’re nowhere near society’s ability to amass and exploit data; the limit has yet to appear on the horizon.

Dump tons of undifferentiated data on the street with no reliable reference tools, and the time required for the group to sort and organize it will look, to the uninitiated, like a…[Read more]

I’m with Christopher, a statie who won’t be affected by FedSpace.

I do think, however, that the first generation of FedSpace community leaders are right here on GovLoop.

I’m wary of either-or constructs that imply only outlier outcomes are possible. Government shouldn’t ignore anyone who attempts engagement and respects the rules, whether in-person, over the phone, by mail, online, carrier pigeon, semaphore, whatever.

Should government devote more resources to online engagement? Yes. But an agency that concludes…[Read more]

Blog’s up at http://bit.ly/armkln

An illuminating picture of public perception.

This is fantastic! I tweeted the link and will include it in my own blog later today. Great work!

Ballcaps.

Messenger bags.

Flash drives.

And don’t overlook helicopters. I’m thisclose to talking KDOT into buying me a helicopter. A big black helicopter w/ cool red stripes, a really big laser and a cocktail cart. I need this even more than I need an iPhone. But there’s a chance we won’t be able to find the budget, so think about a GovLoop…[Read more]