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In the past few weeks, the Internal Revenue Service has started posting a their videos on YouTube. While the videos themselves aren’t new (in fact most are a couple of months old), the potential here is big for this agency that many Americans love to hate. The short videos focus on everything from charitable contributions to tax scams.... [read more]
Over the past few months I’ve become more and more impressed with the videos on the White House YouTube channel. The President’s Weekly Address is almost a stalemate of my weekends. His explanations of Healthcare reform or assessments of the economy are both engaging and informative. There is currently well over 400 videos on the White... [read more]
Twitpic Ross L GrantGoogle UK launched it's local government division on Friday August 8 with a day-long event held at their London offices and attended by around 65 people.As I have been talking and writing about their stuff (aka promoting!) for a few years now this day was pretty exciting for me.I wondered how many actual local... [read more]
Image via Wikipedia The House of Lords shows itself - again - to be the most thoughtful and progressive chamber in a new report 'Are the Lords listening? Creating connections between people and Parliament' from its Information Committee.Parliament has some really daft rules against use of video of proceedings, which it has been extremely... [read more]
Hat-tip thingy to Stephen Cowan – leader of the Hammersmith & Fulham Labour group for this video on what really happens to ordinary working people when Cameron Tories take charge. The Conservative Council leaders are having secret negotiations with property developers in Cannes, French Riviera (of all places) about demolishing H... [read more]
Check out this dot-gov video from down-under--Australia. Matthew Hodgson's video on Gov 2.0 shows that the challenges are trans-hemispheric [okay, I likely made that word up].From PDF's and static pages created by the "experts" behind the green shades talking about themselves in arcane governtmentese to a landscape full of choice,... [read more]
On 15 July 2004 the BBC broadcast an undercover documentary about the BNP. Andy Sykes was once the Bradford organiser of the BNP, praised by Nick Griffin, but he couldn't tolerate what he saw. He then turned into a double agent. To remind you of what the BNP is really like, here is the programme for you to watch again. Link to... [read more]
Caveat: this is not exhaustive, it does not include all departments (even the Home Office!) It is literally a snapshot and I sincerely hope it will be taken and used by anyone who needs it. I am aware that Ross Ferguson in COI is preparing a repository for this sort of information, so I will not duplicate with another collaborative... [read more]
Captured by C-SPAN and other media outlets, this YouTube video is now viral, showing President Barack Obama ordering lunch at the Five Guys national hamburger chain for himself, the Secret Service, and other colleagues. Have a look. Granted this is the leader of the free world–who is accompanied by paparazzi. But he’s also the chief... [read more]
At Socitm's Better Connected event 2 June in Brum by far the hit of the day was this presentation:Inbc09 May19 Session5 John SteedView more OpenOffice presentations from paulcanning.John Steed from Cheltenham Council talked about how the massive flooding of the town a few years ago gave a kick-start to their social media efforts - and... [read more]
Unless you live in a cultural bubble, I’ll assume if I ask you to tell me what “Star Wars” means, you will say something aligned with the first few pages of these 90 million results on Google. You will say something about 1977 George Lucas film, right? If I ask you for a political reference, you may draw a line to President Ronald... [read more]
It’s not often that you will find me praising a website set up by Tim Montgomerie of Conservativehome. NothingBritish.com is different. While it is not quite in the same league of “Hope not Hate” I for one am really pleased that Tories are also attacking the BNP. “Nothing British” is a campaign against the politics of discrimination,... [read more]
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Ari Melber from The Nation wrote a very interesting post over at Personal Democracy Forum about Condoleezza Rice’s recent confrontation with several students at Stanford. If you haven’t seen Rice’s defensive scolding of these students yet, here it is, video courtesy of Stanford student Reyna Garcia: I won’t go too far into... [read more]
As reported in Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, the Youtube Symphony Orchestra recently performed at Carnegie Hall.Per the post, How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Upload Upload Upload, the orchestra included over 90 musicians located in over 30 countries and while auditioned by professional musicians, the final players... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...