Category: Social Media
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“Gov 2.0” is Here to Stay
Gov 2.0 is a semantic umbrella for several movements with real muscle: open government (in the sense of transparent decision-making, “sunshine”/”sunlight”); open source software in government; free release of data collected by governments, preferably in machine-readable format; social media in government; collaboration, crowdsourcing and prediction markets in government; and traditional “eGov” online services.
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At Gov 2.0 LA with Alex Howard (@digiphile)
Discussing the first major west coast Gov 2.0 unconference.
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#Gov20 Resources for 2010 – Please Add!
2009 was inarguably a great year for the Gov 2.0 movement. I’ll trust folks like Andrea DiMaio, Steve Radick, Gwynne Kostin, Tim O’Reilly and Mark Drapeau to make that point better than I can. But what I did want to offer in terms of sort of a year-end wrap are a number of links to
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Best Twitter Compliment? “I Read Your Page”
If you’ve been on Twitter very long, you’re probably not really reading much of the stream you’ve set up. And if you’re new, you might be struggling to figure out how to keep up with the growing number of updates from your Twitter connections (hint, unless you limit your followings to double digits you simply
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Five Tips for Blog Posts that Pop on Twitter
For niche and fledgling bloggers, it can be quite intimidating to see public stats around some of the big dogs of the blogging world. “There go another 482 retweets for Chris Brogan’s latest post!” you might think, with more than hint of envy. In this post, I want to examine a few ways to get
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How to Build a Kick-Ass Twitter Community
The success of Edmonton, AB’s Twitter community holds lessons for civic engagement.
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#Yeg – Secret Sauce for Twitter Community Success?
Using the Twitter hashtag “#yeg,” Edmonton, AB, residents have achieved a wonder in self-organizing.
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Radicalize Your Suggestion Box
New Web 2.0 tools allow any agency to easily empower front-line employees and other stakeholders.
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Twitter Lists, Ratios and Follower Counts: Network vs. Broadcast?
Even at this stage in the game, you could probably get five experts in a room and have each describe Twitter differently. Kind of like The Elephant and the Blind Men fable. But with the new lists feature, it’s growing easier to see why and how people people are using this tool. Two of the
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10 Gov 2.0 Blogs to Track
Just last summer, “Gov 2.0” was anything but a buzzword, and social media was just coming into its own in the mainstream. This post is to clue you in to some of the great public and private sector bloggers who’ve helped blaze the trail. You probably know most of them, but maybe you’ll find one
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