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Some people think that making fun of serious social problems actually reduces their seriousness. Maybe. To me it's a case of whatever works: [read more]
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Many government agencies maintain at least one Twitter account, and even multiple accounts, based on their operational needs and their diverse audiences .It can be unclear to government Twitter users what the best strategies are for interacting with the public on Twitter, and how an agency can use Twitter in a meaningful way to support its organizational mission. [read more]
Innovation was a common theme at this year’s conference. Regardless of the size of the organization or budget, forward-thinking and innovative public outreach and collaboration approaches are working! [read more]
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Last month, the Senate held a hearing on re-tooling government for the 21st century. What’s the background behind recent pushes to reorganize the government and how do they different from perennial calls to do so over the past three decades that have gone no where? The Senate hearing focused on recent U.S. Government Accountability... [read more]
Denver-based LegiNation has launched a new database – BillTrack50 which helps users navigate bills at the state level to find relevant current and proposed legislation. [read more]
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There’s a gap between the technologies that first responders have access to in the field now – and those that are already on the market or will be available in the future [read more]
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States are moving toward health care reform but not without significant challenges. Nearly every aspect of federal health care reform legislation has been politicized and yet federal deadlines loom large. Federal health care reform legislation created new and significant requirements for states to comply with leading many states to... [read more]
Last November I highlighted a report from the Commons political and constitutional reform committee which contained some pretty negative views about the use of 'data matching' to improve the electoral register. "The evidence we have received... suggests that data matching will be of limited effectiveness, especially in identifying... [read more]
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Been reading Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It by James Q. Wilson. Aside from realizing that Gov 2.0 isn't all that new - they called it "Reinventing Government" back in the Clinton era - I am starting to realize that federal agencies present a unique kind of sociological challenge: Paradox! Photo by Sean... [read more]
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One of the major difficulties accepted in the discussions around citizen participation was how do we measure it. This was presented more recently in the post ‘Participating in a Democracy’. Whilst being fully referenced and including her a new paper from the IBM Center for The Business of Government probably owes a great deal to the... [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]
When websites first started to become popular, it became common for Marketing and Communications teams in organisations to receive requests from various areas saying "we need a website". Now that social media is firmly embedded in Australia, I'm seeing and hearing about the same type of requests - particularly for Facebook. So,... [read more]
Lots of events happen this year in government, from fears of government shutting down to federal hiring reform. I took a look back at 2011 for the biggest stories in government this year. Many of this events will carry on into 2012 and some have potential to shape the events of 2012.Budgets will grow increasingly tighter and the public... [read more]
I love the end of the year as it’s a great time to reflect on the year that has been and plan for the year ahead. 2011 Review 2011 was an awesome year here in the Govloop community. This last week, as a community, we’ve done a number of end of year lists (from Top 5 blog posts, members, etc) – and looking at the lists I’m... [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 »
Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It would seem that, the government especially, would do what it takes to get things done they way they say they will. There are many people who believe that their government is honest and open with them during ...
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it ...
By the way, thanks for the useful info's.
It sounds like they are well on their way to becoming a regular household name. ...