Daily Links
April 30, 2010
YouTube – 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes
April 30, 2010
Restrictions eased for federal agencies that use Twitter, blogs, wikis
April 14, 2010
March 6, 2010
A Step-by-Step Guide to Open Government Directive Compliance – Federal Computer Week
From FCW: “With more than 70 different activities, deliverables and milestones due within 100 days of the President’s Open Government Directive, Microsoft quickly rolled out a series of ‘templates’ that can serve as useful tools to help agencies quickly establish priorities, track progress and outline key responsibilities to meet the requirements set forth in the directive.”
March 3, 2010
13 Best Practices for Open Government Webpages – The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog
February 14, 2010
Social Media and Open Government – My Presentation | Tales from the Technoverse
February 14, 2010
The outer limits to the crowd’s wisdom — Federal Computer Week
From FCW.com: “The question getting lots of attention in the Government 2.0 space today is: How might crowdsourcing be applied to public participation and government policy-making?”
February 12, 2010
Government IT leadership redefined » The Outsource Blog
From TheOutSourceBlog: “The Obama administration is aiming to change the thinking of federal IT leadership. Transparency, citizen participation, and agency collaboration are in; silos, cost overruns, and project stagnation are out.”
February 9, 2010
A Federal Mandate To Open Up — Open Government — InformationWeek
From InformationWeek: “With the release in December of President Obama’s Open Government Directive, the requirement for “opening” government processes and databases has shifted from planning to implementation. “
February 9, 2010
Government Technologist: What’s the ROI Of Open Government?
From InformationWeek: “The Obama administration is bringing some specificity to the president’s open government initiative, spelling out expectations and deadlines with the recently released Open Government Directive. But we still need to know how much this mandate for openness will cost, how much money it could save, and what other returns on investment U.S. taxpayers should expect.”
February 9, 2010
Redefining the Role of Citizen in a Gov 2.0 World « The Business of Government: Getting it Done
From IBM’s BizGov blog: “What does it mean to be a citizen in a Gov 2.0 world? “
February 8, 2010
How Agencies are Kickstarting their Open Gov Compliance – General News
From OhMyGov.com: “”Social media is like stages of grief. Everyone goes through denial and anger at first, it seems,” says Josh Salmons, Staff Sergeant at the Defense Information School.”
February 8, 2010
Gov 2.0: 5 government sites using Drupal effectively for open government initiatives
From GovFresh.com: “A growing trend the Drupal community is following closely this year is government interest in the platform to further open government initiatives and broaden adoption across government.”
February 8, 2010
Data and transparency: Of governments and geeks | The Economist
From The Economist.com: “In several countries more official data are being issued in raw form so that anybody can use them. This forces bureaucrats and creative types to interact in new ways”
February 8, 2010