Category: Government 2.0
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Semantic Web: Please Join Me for “List Friends Friday” #LFF #FF
I’d sorely love to see handcrafted Twitter lists gain widespread popularity. They are incredibly useful not only for managing huge Twitter communities, they also underpin a sector of the 3rd party app community and help create a rich structure of intelligent links throughout the Open Web. In honor of Micah Baldwin’s Follow Friday, I propose…
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Can Twitter Reimagine Democracy? #twitgov
Twitter’s plan to hire a government liaison (its first DC employee) has set off a a tweetstorm from the U.S. Capitol to London to Tokyo, and likely a flood of resumes into the Web 2.0 firm’s SoMa offices. Some of the Gov 2.0 community’s brightest have already offered great suggestions for how this new Twitter…
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Social Semantic Web: ‘List Me Monday’? #LMM
Without going into its continued efficacy, let’s just say that “Follow Friday” on Twitter has become a robust tradition. I’d love to see a tradition emerge around a meaning-rich but underutilized Twitter feature – Lists.Now, lists have been all the rage among power users for some time, but they are far from hitting the pop…
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Social Media: An Annotated Life
Anyone actively using social media runs into the balance issue. Mike Rupert, a communications pro for DC local government, brought this up as one of the topics for his LocalGovChat tonight on Twitter:We check Twitter on the train, read through blog comments in our cars, adjust code in restaurants and study analytics in bed, he…
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Future Uncertain for Real-identity Web
The best-possible future for Gov 2.0 includes individually controlled social media sharing and the ability to turn verified identities on and off. Unlike the heydays of AOL or present of anonymous newspaper commentary, Facebook’s identity system had been helping to slowly change the culture of the Web to persistent use of real identity in social…
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Gov 2.0 Professional – How Can We Rock LinkedIn?
A million Twitter years ago, back in 2008, I first discovered the phrase “Government 2.0” while bumming around various LinkedIn groups. Yesterday, Government 2.0 group creator Ric Cantrell, a Utah state govie, invited me to help manage the group, now at 3,800 members. The Government 2.0 group on LI is also where I first met…
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Game Mechanics: Being There (or, A Gov 2.0 Potential for Location-based Services)
The way I look at it, Gov 2.0 is more about innovation than technology. Activists in this movement have by now noted that it doesn’t matter how good the technology is if it doesn’t fill a need and if people don’t use it. Of late, I’ve been thinking more about game mechanics and how stimulating…
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