Last night I attended the Sacramento launch of the Social Media Club. I’ve been following the events in San Francisco via friends’ Twitter feeds, but had not had the opportunity to attend an SMC event before. Chris Heuer, the co-founder of Social Media Club was there to get things kicked off with a very openRead… Read more »
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Memo to Our New Federal Chief Information Officer
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. Vivek Kundra, Washington DC’s own CIO, has been appointed Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO). According to a Washington Technology article, Kundra “… plans to make the massive volumes of government data that isn’t sensitive available to the public through a new Web site, www.data.gov. With more data available to theRead… Read more »
Facebook is For Children
I admit, like a number of my friends, I first opened a Facebook account in order to have a window on my children’s world. Some of my friends have told me that their children would be embarrassed to have them as friends — and so they are locked out. Others tell me that one reasonRead… Read more »
Congress Delivers Major Social Media Failure
It seemed like an event worth passing on. In fact, I’ve tried to pass on many of the government 2.0 conversations of late, but last week’s Congressional Tweeting during Obama’s speech last week was flat out disturbing. While Congressional tweeting from 50 elected officials highlighted how hot Twitter has become, it also demonstrated an irresponsibleRead… Read more »
Can Government Procurement Be Streamlined By Using Collaboration Technologies and Social Media?
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. Author’s note: this is a republication from the author’s web site located here. The report Six Practical Steps to Improve Contracting by Dr. Allan V. Burman, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, is based on a series of discussions co-sponsored by The IBM Center for the Business of Government and GeorgeRead… Read more »
Collecting the best case studies of Social Media in Government
I am working on collecting the best case studies of social media in government for a workshop series I am organizing with Potomac Forum. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on topics, curriculum and speakers. We are planning to bring in some outside speakers on commercial lessons learned and how they could be applied toRead… Read more »
Citizen Networks, The Next Big Thing?
Transparency. Efficiency. Accountability. All are stated goals of federal, state and local government. All are embodied in the Economic Recovery Act. How will they be accomplished? The Old World. In the “old world”, government agencies approach each by building or modifying Web based portals. Government uses these portals as hubs to publish government documents andRead… Read more »
Making Recovery.gov first step toward smart regulation
(This post appeared originally in the Huffington Post, Feb. 23, 2009. Reprinted with permission) The Obama Administration created Recovery.gov as a critical stimulus component, taking a “don’t trust us, track us” approach to assure funds are distributed quickly and fairly and “recipients and uses of all recovery funds are transparent.” It will also provide cluesRead… Read more »
Propose Topics for the Open Government Directive: Interagency Online Brainstorming
For Dot Govs (and others) via the MAX Community: The Administration wants to hear your ideas. The goal of this inter-agency brainstorming session is to identify topics that should be addressed in the Directive. There will be 3 parallel conversations, one for each of the three goals set out by the President: Transparency, Participation, andRead… Read more »
New Virtual Community Created to Shape President’s Open Government Directive
On February 16th, a new government-wide community – the Open and Innovative Government Community – was created on the MAX Federal Community system to capture your ideas on how best to implement the President’s Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. Over the next 100 days, the Open and Innovative Government Community will convene a seriesRead… Read more »