Category: Government 2.0


  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – August 1, 2010

    There is no theme here. Really. Andrea DiMaio: Australian Government CIO Reinforces Employee-Centricity of Gov 2.0Marcia Stepank: Context Deficit Disorder Morgen Peers: Open Government. Theoretically, it all started in Canada. 1896.Dannielle Blumenthal: The things we don’t blog aboutAlex Showerman: Skiing, Water Parks, Dating and Politics (Three Ways to Engage Your Online Community)Linda Cureton: Life in

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  • Social Networking Doesn’t Work

    Social networking doesn’t work. Crowdsourcing doesn’t work. Nobody cares.Most of the folks who come to these conclusions don’t even bother to post them publicly (although plenty do). It’s enough that they posted a question, asked for help in a topical forum, or tried to build a community online. And nothing happened.Perhaps nothing happened despite a

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  • Flickr-fy Your Blogs and Tweets

    Did you know that you can blog any public photo right from Flickr? Until very recently, I didn’t. Now I’m happily populating two personal blogs (Adriel Hampton and Travel Tokyo) and my Twitter account with fresh and archived shots from my photostream.It’s dead simple to link your blogs and Twitter account to Flickr. One you

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 31, 2010

    It’s a mad, mad world: Allan Holmes: Craigslist creator tries to bring transparency initiative out of the shadowsPeggy Orenstein: I Tweet, Therefore I AmShira Lizar: Gov 2.0 – The Future of Government Is In Your HandsRobin Hicks: How useful is Twitter’s government service?Vlad Malik: Internet – Defining privacy in a public spaceWilliam D. Eggers: Sustainable

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 30, 2010

    The dog days of Summer: Brian Purchia: An open source union movementGunnar Hellekson: Who had the first government open source policy?Alex Showerman: President Obama and a Supporter’s Hollow Feeling (A Call for Online Engagement)Shira Lazar and Tim O’Reilly: What is Gov 2.0? (video)AASHTO Honors State DOT Photographers for their ‘Faces of Transportation’Rebecca Bowe: Big Brother?

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 29, 2010

    International, visual: James Hutchinson: Gov 2.0, Web 2.0 clash over accessibilityEric Fischer: Overlay of San Francisco vehicle movements for all of June 2010Joe Eskenazi: Republicans Following Porn on TwitterFelipe Estaban: Colombia 2.0 – The time is nowJohn F. Moore: The Social Ecosystem – Developing Social Usage Guidelines David Forbes: Transparency is an ammo dumpGuy Molyneux,

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 28, 2010

    Have you bought e(G2R) on Empire Avenue? Mark Headd: The opposite of open governmentAlex Howard: Open government is a mindsetRobin Hicks: Australia’s GCIO talks tough at FutureGov forumGovernment Technology (video): Meet Colorado’s Chief Data OfficerChristine Pierpoint: The Gov 2.0 Conundrum Gov20Radio: An Apps Day to Keep Climate Doomsday Away

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 27, 2010

    Tomorrow, G2R gets its own GovLoop profile 😉 Steve Radick: What Can the Government Learn from a $100,000 Salt & Pepper Shaker? Kim Patrick Kozba: Late Bloomers and the Evolution of ‘Social’Morgen Peers: Getting Down Under(neath) Gov 2.0Nick Judd: The Challenge of Tech for Civic GroupsJohn Ohab: Open Innovation in the Science and Technology CommunityBob

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 26, 2010

    It was a busy weekend: Jesus Diaz: NASA Astronauts Hacked by Twitter SpammersHouse Oversight and Government Reform Committee: Government 2.0 Part 1 – Federal Use of Web 2.0 Technologies Kim Patrick Kozba: Citizen networks – What can we learn from the science of epigenetics? On the Media: The Public Access Crusade of Carl MalamudSteve Ressler:

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  • Taking Stock in Your Government

    Much of the hand-wringing in government social media practice – or more so, the decision-making behind whether to have a government social media practice – centers on return on investment, or even “return on engagement.” Does it work, and how do we measure whether it works?From measuring retweets, to numbers of fans, unique blog hits,

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