Category: Government 2.0
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Untethered: Work, and Life, in the Cloud
This weekend, I got the chance to meet a longtime online friend face-to-face following his trip to a local Google conference. Alan Pruitt, who I met a few years back on a LinkedIn group for private investigators, is a licensed PI out of Yuma, AZ, doing due diligence backgrounds for major employers, and he also…
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Big Tech’s Social Media Samurai
Social media is still smokin’ hot. Plenty of practitioners want to use arcane terms to describe their skills – ninja, ronin, maven, guru – and they often like to call each other “douchbags.” But one name accurately describes Big Tech’s moves to procure in-house social media talent. Like the warrior samurai class, these influential new…
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Influence. It’s work.
This post is a little bit about social media influence and a little bit about life. You hear the cliche it all the time – “there are no shortcuts in life.” And yet in the social media world it’s easy to promise shortcuts. The online influence world is populated and dominated by a muddy mix…
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Facebook Search Kicks Tourism Boards of the World in the Teeth
ShanghaiI’d really like to visit Shanghai one day. And in my former days as a Facebook customer, it’s not unreasonable to think that one of the places I’d do a little research is on that social media platform. Type in “Shanghai” and up pops one of Facebook’s new “community pages,” populated with more than 2,100…
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Facebook Hijacks U.S. Government Pages
“Everyone is using it.”That’s the typical justification for pushing as much content onto Facebook as you can. It’s why the U.S. State Department has fan pages for more than 200 initiatives and it’s why last year my congressional campaign spent days building up a large network for my personal Facebook profile.Facebook purports to have 400…
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‘Open’ as Control – No to Facebook, No to Apple
I have a confession. I kinda loathe tech elites. Too many have the same privileged upbringing and attitude as the politicians and investment bankers who’ve helped revert the United States into the developed world’s grossest plutocracy. I don’t see uber-blogger rants about privacy and tech elites public spanking other tech elites very helpful at all…
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Radical Open Source Law Project Swings Through San Francisco
In a webinar about Gov 2.0 on Tuesday, publisher and conference convener Tim O’Reilly referred to Carl Malamud as the father of the Gov 2.0 movement. Wednesday, Malamud was in San Francisco at the Mitchell Kapor Foundation offices for the 10th in a series of 15 workshops he’s hosting around the country for his current…
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