Start your weekend early, with tomorrow’s hot links today: Alex Howard: Space IT, the final frontier Courtney Clark: What’s Your Story? User Stories Instead of Technical Documentation Allan Holmes: Craigslist creator tries to bring initiative out of the shadows Shai Sacks: Learning how to lobby Congress Mark Higginson: Social Media Energizes Political Campaigns Down UnderRead… Read more »
Learning as we go: Col. John Thompson: Air Force Using Serious Game Technology to Enhance Training Geordie Adams: Failure really is a good thing Alan Silberberg: In You Face Gov 2.0 As Contact Sport Janrain: Measuring the Popularity of Social Media Platforms Across the Web Andrew Weber: Tweeting THOMAS and Connecting with Congress Guidance forRead… Read more »
We’re all in this together: Alex Howard: Linked data is opening 800 years of UK legal info Patricia Decker: Smartphone apps will soon help you find parking in SF Chris Bennett: CB2 – Twitter Fast Follow for Crisis Alerting Crowdsourcing Communities Attempt to Aid Pakistan Lee Glandorf: Twitter popularity no guarantee of influence, finds HPRead… Read more »
There is no they. – The Breaking TimeDavid Forbes: And the lights go out …Alexander Howard: Emergency Social Data Summit Highlights the Role of Social Media During Crises Mark P. McDonald: The future of the CIO lies in addressing a challenge no one else is thinking aboutCandi Harrison: Clearing the Clutter – A Success StoryNickRead… Read more »
Originally posted at eaves.ca David H. sent me this short and fantastic article from Wired magazine last week. The article discusses the travails of Mathew Burton, a former analyst and software programmer at the Department of Defense who spent years trying to get the software he wrote into the hands of those who desperately neededRead… Read more »
The links must go on: Andrea DiMaio: How to Use IT to Help Development, and Have Fun Virtual Worlds News: Virtual Worlds News Wrap-up for the Week of August 14 Alex Williams: Q&A – Janrain’s CEO Discusses OpenID in the Federal Gov’t Mac Margolis: Your Pass to Good Government Alex Howard: Sean Garrett on Twitter’sRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio We talk with Jed Sundwall of Captura Group about Open San Diego; Go.USA.gov and the .gov URL shortener; engaging Hispanics online, including those who prefer Spanish and prefer English; and the USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov social media strategies, and why they’re remarkable. Download episode.
A new Government 2.0 Plan has been released for the Victorian Public Sector (VPS). Endorsed by Departmental Secretaries and the Chief Commissioner of Police, the Plan provides a whole of VPS approach to using Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, blogs and social media to engage with citizens, develop policy and deliver services. The PlanRead… Read more »
Jed Sundwell, contractor for USA.gov and gobierno.gov, for 2 years -help develop and implement social media strategies -live in San Diego Open San Diego -volunteer-effort -non-profit – make info about San Diego freely to use -find data out there -an experiment in how to sell this concept -want to do prize/bounty for a specific datasetRead… Read more »
Keepin’ on keepin’ on: David Eaves: Which App for Climate Change Do You Like Best? Ben Parr: How To – Visualize All Your Foursquare Check-Ins Government 2.0 Action Plan – Victoria Nathaniel Whittemore: Clinton’s Crew – The Exciting Entrepreneurs Revolutionizing Government DOT Open Gov team earns Leading Practices award Laura McGann: Data-visualization due turns downRead… Read more »