Twitter Lists No Substitute for Community

While everybody’s still writing about Twitter Lists, I’ve got another thought that’s simply too long for a tweet. The A-list talk is about status. That’s cool. Personally, I like lists as a way to discover new recommendations in communities of interest, and also as a way to quickly tune into those communities. Creating and following [...]

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Upcoming on Gov 2.0 Radio | 9 p.m. EST Sundays

November 1 – Brian Drake and Stephen Buckley | Fix It?We discuss what’s working and what’s not in government with retired career fed Stephen Buckley and collaboration consultant Brian Drake. Drake is planning the Government 2.0 #FAIL workshop, while Buckley, who in the ’90s managed a 1,000 member “Reinventing Government” listserv, is working on an [...]

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Are You Tuned in to Gov 2.0 Radio?

Back in my days as a City Hall reporter, one of my very favorite things to do was the Comcast Citydesk Newshour show on local cable. Once a week, I’d get to chat live about politics and City Hall with some of The City’s top reporters, editorial writers and columnists. I was always rushing down [...]

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Semantics: Why Twitter Lists Rock

Twitter’s new list function is a discovery engine – about others, about you.

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Hollywood for Wordy People

Right now, social media power users are either going to (and jawboning about) conferences about social media all the time, or bashing said conferences. Sometimes sorta both. “Just use the tool and quit talking about it,” you’ll hear. Now, I don’t go to many of the conferences, but I probably side more with the conference [...]

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Wired to Share: The Importance of Teams

Teams are key to success in a Web 2.0 world.

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Civil Service 2.0: You Won’t Need a Resume?

Should traditional civil service adapt in a social media world?

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I Bought Two New Books (and What It Means for Gov 2.0)

Social media touches can transform relationships, for good or ill.

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Where it Stops, Nobody Knows

Lunch for Good, Politics 2.0, and Citizen 2.0.

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Stay Wired to Share

Government 2.0 is about connecting those who are “wired to share.”

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