Monday, Monday! Some very good conversations and resources today. Enjoy. Caroline @WiiPigSooie WiiPigSooie Blog david_tallan: @shaneschick I think Gov 2.0 will make boundaries of government more porous to broader civic ecosystem incl. citizens #gov20 25 minutes ago from UberTwitter • Reply • View Tweet adrielhampton: Check out GovLoop today for short @GovFresh interviews with #Gov20Read… Read more »
The US Governments USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service (that’s group that recalls all of the spinach and peanut butter, well they started a twitter account and launched some “web 2.0” and RSS stuff … a great move not just to get the public informed, but to get us involved!
Everyone is interested in the new financial industry regualation that will be proposed and debuted this week. I intend this posting to be a primer on some of the issues which are being discussed during the week. Some of the issues being discussed on the internet include: Regulatory Arbitrage – banks and financial institutions usingRead… Read more »
Continuing our exercise in developing a performance management framework, a summary of the necessary steps for a successful program follows: 1. Report performance metric data on pre-defined schedule. 2. Analyze data for troubling trends or missed targets. Operationally research root cause of problems. 3. Provide corrective action for metrics where target was missed or dataRead… Read more »
All times are Pacific Time June 10, 2009 6:01 am InnoGOV: Federal Workforce Policy Forum is about to start in just a few minutes… follow along using hashtag #INGOV 6:12 am InnoGOV: going thru the room & introducing ourselves…lots of great HR ppl from various fed agencies! #INGOV 6:16 am InnoGOV: In one word, whatRead… Read more »
This summer, Twitter is apparently planning to introduce “verified” accounts for celebrities, public officials, government agencies “and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation.” At first blush, this sounds like a good move: it will put many public affairs shops at ease and will level the playing field for agencies coming late to theRead… Read more »
Note: This post is of my own personal opinion and is not endorsed or supported by any local, state, or federal government agency. Better yet, do you even have one? Twitter is all you hear nowadays. Tweet me this, retweet me that! Government is getting more involved with Twitter and see what a powerful communicationsRead… Read more »
Tomorrow, my husband, Ed, and I will celebrate our 33rd wedding anniversary. In 1976, the Bicentennial celebration was in full swing, Jimmy Carter was elected president, and disco was not dead. Since I paid for my own wedding and I had just graduated from college (which I also paid for), our wedding was a moreRead… Read more »
Good Morning! The most popular RT today was “Army orders bases to stop blocking Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.” It was RT’d about a billion times. (Statements without data are just opinions 😉 ) Caroline Vetmomof2: @brinex you should check out @govloop they had question about Amazon EC2? 9 minutes ago from web • Reply •Read… Read more »
Lawmakers grilled representatives of the State Department and a private security firm today on the details and administration of a contract to provide protective services at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, suggesting that the company’s deficiencies in the past two years may have placed the compound at risk of an attack. Deputy Assistant SecretaryRead… Read more »