Radicalize Your Suggestion Box

New Web 2.0 tools allow any agency to easily empower front-line employees and other stakeholders.

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What Comes Next?

An interesting presentation caught my eye this week, and it’s well worth sharing. It’s titled 2015, the web is dead, and if you can ignore a few typos, it’s a powerful look at where infotech is headed – decentralized, mobile, integrated. It also ties in with a point that Deloitte analyst Bill Eggers made on [...]

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“The Stargate Trap”: From Politics to Implementation

In a new book that applies systems thinking to complex government initiatives, “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon … Getting Big Things Done in Government,” authors Bill Eggers and John O’Leary describe the moment that a public initiative translates from design to reality – the moment of legislative passage – in scifi [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio: Bill Eggers and John O’Leary

I hope you’ll join us Sunday night for a very special edition of the Gov 2.0 Radio podcast, as we host a conversation with Bill Eggers and John O’Leary, authors of the new reform treatise “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government.”Eggers in 2005 chronicled the rise [...]

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Gov 2.0: Mission, Tools, Metrics, Teach (The Four Laws of Levy)

I got thinking again this week about one of my favorite Gov 2.0 practitioners, the EPA’s Jeffrey Levy.Levy is important not just because he’s one of the nicest folks in Gov 2.0, which he is, but because he’s making real strides in creating road maps for integration of social media into the practice of government. [...]

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Building Community at CA Data Camp

Saturday, Citizen Space in San Francisco hosted the first California Data Camp and DataSF App contest. The event was a great mix of journalists, developers and govies, with an unconference and on-site app-building competition. Sponsor Spot.us liveblogged the event. You can also check out short videos from Craig Newmark and GovFreshTV. I’ve also thrown together [...]

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More Gov 2.0 Blogs

Following on my recent 10 Gov 2.0 blogs to track, here are a few more resources: Recommended by Gwynne Kostin and Sarah Bourne: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio – Gartner’s Andrea DiMaio http://candioncontent.blogspot.com/ – Candi on Content Recommended by Christoph Berendes (whose own Citizen Tools – http://citizentools.netalyst.com/ – is worth your time): http://blog.e-democracy.org/ – E-Democracy.org Project Blog (and related [...]

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Twitter Lists, Ratios and Follower Counts: Network vs. Broadcast?

Even at this stage in the game, you could probably get five experts in a room and have each describe Twitter differently. Kind of like The Elephant and the Blind Men fable. But with the new lists feature, it’s growing easier to see why and how people people are using this tool. Two of the [...]

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Making Gov Easy for Citizens and Business

There’s a whole industry around advising commercial sectors about new laws that impact business. And yet, new laws in general get rigorous review before that go into effect. Why not create a list of categories of impact (businesses of 50 or less, businesses that serve food, condo associations, etc.) and invite folks to opt into [...]

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10 Gov 2.0 Blogs to Track

Just last summer, “Gov 2.0″ was anything but a buzzword, and social media was just coming into its own in the mainstream. This post is to clue you in to some of the great public and private sector bloggers who’ve helped blaze the trail. You probably know most of them, but maybe you’ll find one [...]

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