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Last week, I wrote about Corridor, the State Department's new internal social networking portal. This week, I want to examine some ways that its administrators can illustrate to their leadership that their investment in Corridor is returning results. Here are the top four metrics I think they should look at:... [read more]
eGovernment Register reports today on 'social media' use in local councils (LAs), noting that work by Liz Azyan published on her blog at LGEOResearch.com shows it at: Number % of LAs Facebook 48 11% Twitter 128 30% YouTube 63 15% RSS 122 28% Web dev blogs/feeds 6 1% Now I would argue that RSS is a bit... [read more]
The White House is reviewing the federal government's cookie policy. Abridged version, it's been a 9-year rejection of the use of what many see as a benign tool and others see as government invading citizen privacy.Part of this discussion has included what privacy means to people using online tools in 2009. Some think that people don't... [read more]
Eurobarometer has published its research (pdf) into turnout at the European Parliament elections last month. The state of the UK’s democratic debate, particularly on European issues, doesn’t come out of it very well. Generally, the picture is of just another election, with turnout patterns similar to national elections, and the ‘usual... [read more]
One of the questions we face when liberating government data is prioritization. Our end goal is to release all raw govt data to the public in open machine readable formats – but which ones first? Our approach is to go after the low-hanging fruit initially (already available) and then focus on measuring public demand through the use of an... [read more]
A few quick resources to look at the state of the interwebs and to help you measure your own state of being.First, check out what's hot in the blogosphere. Nielsen data shows that Twitter is gaining mentions and MySpace is flatlining.[my apologies to the Tweep who sent me this way. I searched and couldn't find you. So an annon h/t. So... [read more]
Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos. The White House had been posting pics to Flickr under the Creative Commons Attribution license that lets people reuse, reprint and remix the photos just as long as they credit the original photographers--but since government works can’t be copyrighted that was a fail. Over the weekend,... [read more]
CDC.gov launched the first phase of an online metrics dashboard to provide an enterprise view of key performance indicators for CDC’s Web site, social media and Web 2.0 products. This tool will assist CDC.gov with tracking and evaluating the impact of Web-based health communications. The new metrics dashboard can be found at... [read more]
The England Citizenship Survey for April - December 2008 was published the other day by CLG (pdf, Excel data). Overall, despite the onset of the financial crisis, attitudes to and participation in politics don’t seem to have changed much. A few headlines: Only one fifth of people (22%) feel that they can influence decisions taken by... [read more]
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging tool that lets people send short--only 140 characters--text messages to friends and on a massive public timeline. It is growing fast, 131% traffic increase in March to over 9 million visitors. It has grown because it is easy and conversational. People can learn about friends... [read more]
Web governance has perplexed government web managers for years. Because web management has been – basically – a grassroots effort in the government (many government websites were born bottom-up…not top-down), web managers have struggled to get the attention of higher-ups to get the right pieces in place. What are the right pieces? I... [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 »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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