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Pretty cool to see other countries start hosting Facebook Chats to reach citizens and connect with folks across the globe. Next Up - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be hosting a chat in Arabic on Monday at 10:00 am... [read more]
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The other day I was urging that we do something or other and got the response: "You're so cutting-edge." It wasn't a compliment. In the government, innovation can be scary. But we can do it if we focus on the "how" - meaning the technology... [read more]
The president’s election-year State of the Union messaging strategy this week has included increased use of social media channels in an attempt to reach audiences in a different way and extend the conversation beyond a single day news cycle. Tactics... [read more]
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Gamification refers to the practice of making non-game activities more like games by incorporating achievement-based reward systems. Under gamification, using government examples, when your project or mission is complete you might receive a '... [read more]
Last week GovLoop, the online knowledge network for government employees, launched a redesign where we redesigned our home page and launched 7 new sub-communities. The purpose of the change was to increase the overall readability of the... [read more]
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+The White House joined Google+. The addition of this official government account can be reasonably described as a tipping point for the platform. This will free other federal agencies to join, if we assume that the terms and conditions that +... [read more]
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Congress may be moving forward on the public safety broadband network, but some Governors say that there isn’t enough involvement from state officials – the primary users of the proposed network. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Wyoming Gov. Matthew Mead (R), co-chairmen of the homeland security committee of the National Governors... [read more]
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When P.C. Scott Mills delivers presentations to students on behalf of the Toronto Police Service, he finishes by encouraging his audience members to “friend” him on Facebook. Students initially are incredulous to this. Meeting an authority figure who understands the social media tools of their generation is a rarity. Moreover... [read more]
I really like how data.gov is launching niche communities like health.data.gov. Generally I believe if we want interest in our government data it's not going to be developing just broad "data" ecosystem. Instead, I think we need to build smaller ecosystems like transit data, health data, jobs data, education data, etc.... [read more]
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Following the very active debate on the UK and Ireland E-Democracy Exchange following the announcement of the publication of the Digital Participation in Scotland report I thought it worthy of a brief summary of some of what had been said and the concepts that had been considered. A key element of the debate was about participation (or e... [read more]
Often in government there's only two social media networks discussed and considered for community engagement and communications, Facebook and Twitter. MySpace is a distant memory, LinkedIn is used just for resumes and services like FourSquare, Plurk, Ning and others are not well-known. Also not that well known is Google Plus, and... [read more]
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Some small examples of open data use and public servants who do and don't understand open data from the Province of British Columbia to the City of Vancouver. Open Libraries? For the past several years - ever since the open motion was passed in Vancouver - the city has been releasing more and more data sets. One data set I've encouraged... [read more]
Thanks to Redbox we were enjoying family movie night and the show was a third of the way through. In this scene the main characters have to go to the local government office and get some help. Right away the first word out of the clerk's mouth is "No." They peer over at her workstation. "Why not?" says one. "Because it's not in the... [read more]
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I’ve found with the new USAJobs update it is not quite as simple to get a straight forward listing of the jobs you’re looking for. So, to help out those looking for government jobs in social/new media, I’ve put together a quick roundup of the web related positions I’ve found. Feel free to message me with other social media related... [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 »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Craig, i absolutely agree with you. How Rose harnessed the citizenry's pride in the history of their country was spectacular, trailblazing and worth emulating -- not only by other libraries but by other government and public entities that have content that is worth preserving. I, too, was inspired ...
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the ...
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