Posted by: John Kamensky
in MyBlog on Oct 01, 2009
Posted on
BizGov Blog 9/30/09 -
There were lots of complaints that the initial
Recovery.Gov website was not very helpful. That’s changed. The newly-refreshed website now has lots of new ways of finding and looking at information that is due to pour in next month when the first quarterly reports are due from about 90,000 sources.
Government Executive’s NextGov reporter, Aliya Sternstein provides a good review:
Posted by: Camille Auspitz
in MyBlog on Sep 09, 2009
A jam-packed program of more than two-dozen, 5-minute presentations in five categories made for a potentially mind numbing day. Yet the Gov2.0 Expo Showcase, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC yesterday, was full of poignant, powerful and pithy examples of successful web 2.0 initiatives happening throughout federal, state and local governments.
Posted by: John Kamensky
in MyBlog on Sep 02, 2009
Posted on BizGov Blog 9/2/2009 - A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials. Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found that these agency blogs “elicit more controversy than expected” and that they “have more posts and comments” than related, but non-agency sponsored blogs.
Posted by: Camille Auspitz
in MyBlog on Jul 09, 2009
If social media is having such a strong impact in diplomatic circles, specifically, China and Iran as discussed in today’s NextGov article: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090708_6453.php, what is the potential impact for influencing how the US government operates, communicates and sets policy?
Posted by: Camille Auspitz
in MyBlog on Jul 01, 2009
Welcome to Government Futures! An online community–moving ideas between government and the private sector.
Join the conversation.
To get ideas moving, several bloggers have posted new content and will continue to do so. We have also brought over all the thought provoking ideas from the original Government Futures site.
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