I have been at a number of technology vendor conferences and taking a number of inquiry calls lately speaking with vendors and their government customers about what is happening in the government market. Almost all of these discussions have been around what does the continued evolution of technology mean for the continued evolution of government. [...]
Open government, Gov 2.0, and eGovernment all continue to move forward. To where it is we are headed, I am not convinced that anyone really knows. We all use larger then life terms like “open”, “transparent”, “efficient”, “effective”, “engaged” and others to describe this utopian future. But so far, no one has really been able [...]
The Obama administration has recently released a scorecard of the agency open government plans (The scorecard is available here) that were just completed. It is great that the administration is releasing these scorecards and giving the community some insight into how they are evaluating success. But as a former fed with some moderate experience with [...]
When it comes to government and politics, there is what is called engagement and then there is the real deal engagement. There are agencies that launch twitter streams, maybe have an RSS feed for their blog, they may have a Facebook fan page, and they think or at least say that they are engaging the [...]
Yesterday Federal agencies were required to release their Open Government plans and I am sure that there are a number of people out there looking at how well they did – me included. First, I applaud the agency staff that developed these and got these out. During my time in the Federal government, I worked [...]
According to a new memo from the Marine Corps, Marines will now be allowed to access social media sites like Facebook, twitter, etc on the unclassified network. There are still significant and mission necessary restrictions in the memo such as accessing adult content, gambling sites, or promoting hate speech but in any workplace, not just [...]
I attended the interactive part of SxSW for the first time this year. I had never been to SxSW and it was on my list of things I needed to do during my life, so I spent a few prime days in Austin. For someone who has attended a LOT of conferences, SxSW lives up [...]
One of the questions I often get is about simple frameworks for developing a social media strategy. Too often the questioner sounds like they are hunting for a unicorn – asking if there are such mythical beasts? Unfortunately, most social media strategies are anything but simple. I have seen too many corporate and government social [...]
Armageddon is upon us, and it isn’t even 2012 yet. Based upon his observations from the tweet stream and the blogosphere coming out of the Gov 2.0 Camp LA, Andrea DiMaio has posted on his Gartner blog that he feels we are at the peak of the hype for Gov 2.0 and that things will [...]
I had the good fortune to attend and present at the Gov 2.0 Camp in LA this last weekend put on by Alan Silberberg (@You2Gov) and Lovisa WIlliams (@Lovisatalk). Kudos to both Alan and Lovisa for the great event that they put together. It was an impressive gathering of people and ideas – both in [...]