Category: Government 2.0


  • Upcoming on Gov 2.0 Radio: IT professionals weigh in Gov 2.0; Apps for Climate Action Winners

    Tune in to Gov 2.0 Radio on Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern for a look at how government IT professionals are defining and adopting Gov 2.0 in their agencies. We’ll be talking to Christina Morrison about the findings of a recent HP survey of 103 state, local and federal employees, responding to the question ‘What

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  • Sourcing a Tweet

    By nature, occupation and State of California licensing, I am an investigator. It’s one of the things that endears me to social networking, as I find the web of information endlessly fascinating. When I read a tweet, I’m looking not just at the 140 characters and the author’s name or ID, but also at the

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – October 1, 2010

    Putting on a mask through Election Day … Steve Henn: No political ‘Promoted’ tweets and trends this election season Doc Gurley: Are you in Crisis mode yet? Why not? Sharon Gaudin: In Schmidt’s vision, Google will search before you even ask David Forbes: Of revolts and social media Marc Drummond: NAGW 2010 – Adriel Hampton,

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 26, 2010

    Bittersweet and bliss … Steve Radick: Entrepreneurs – Celebrated in the Private Sector, Hidden in Government Alex Howard: Harnessing the Civic Surplus for Open Government Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Citizen 2.0, Step 3 – Co-Deliver Kristy Fifelski: Lessons from NAGW 2010 Nancy Scola: Luke Fretwell’s Bittersweet GovFresh Experience Adriel Hampton: Gov 2.0 – Creating New Civic Activists

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  • Twitter for Civic Engagement: Tag it Up

    Key to using social media for civic engagement is embracing the culture of a particular medium. On Twitter, hashtags – the addition of the pound or number sign in front of a word with no spaces – are a popular convention for semantic tagging. Hashtags are a user-created feature of Twitter, and the company rolled

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 22, 2010

    Manor and Govfresh and NAGW, oh my! Andrea DiMaio: Government 2.0 Requires Perpetual Beta Mike Strand: ‘Stick’ Government Apps: Should Humans Stay in the Information Loop? Tom Raggett: Bringing Real Digital Engagement to the Public SectorGov 2.0 Radio: Yammer CEO David Sacks on Enterprise Social NetworkingDavid Eaves: Getting Government Right Behind the Firewall

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  • Gov 2.0 and Social Media Resources

    In preparation for several upcoming speaking engagements, I’ve been poring through older blogs posts and materials from the past couple of years. In the process, I’ve created several new tabs on my personal Gov 2.0 blog, “Wired to Share.” I hope they are helpful to others, and that if I’ve missed your Gov 2.0 blog

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 18, 2010

    To public participation (an all-Alex Howard edition, nearly): Sarah Perez: Study – Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche Alex Howard: Canadian Apps for Climate Change Winners Announced More Alex Howard: Channeling crowdsourcing into distributed work Even more Alex Howard: 2010 is the year of participatory platforms Aaron Wherry: Is public data the future of

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 17, 2010

    Up with participation and collaboration: Wayne Moses Burke: Transparency is Dead. Long Live Transparency. Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step 2, Creator David Eaves: Collaborate – ‘Governments Don’t Do That’ Alex Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation and ‘Participation Partition’ the Newest Facet of the Digital Divide, Warns Gruen 

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  • Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 16, 2010

    Just cool, not just cool tech: Noel Dickover: What is Civil Society 2.0? Andrea DiMaio: Social Media and How to Get Rid of Government Portals (and Vendors) Adriel Hampton: An Avatar Picture Worth 1,000 Friends Alex Howard: Tracking the signals of the Gov 2.0 alpha geeks John Moore: For Gov 2.0, tech is the enabler,

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