CrowdCampaign turns Twitter into a Crowdsourcing Engine

I recently wrote about giving your suggestion box a 2.0 twist with low-cost online collaboration and voting technologies. Crowdsourcing from stakeholders and front-line employees is one of the key areas where Web 2.0 technologies can help government, and last week I had the opportunity to talk with Clinton Bonner about CrowdCampaign, a Twitter app that [...]

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Diabetes Fighters Win GovLoop Charity Contest

I want to give a quick shout out to GovLoop and Adventures for the Cure. GovLoop, the “Facebook for Government,” wound down a great year with a charity contest that used crowdsourcing tech to allow members to nominate and vote for charities and to raise money by inviting friends and completing challenges. The contest ended [...]

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#Gov20 Resources for 2010 – Please Add!

2009 was inarguably a great year for the Gov 2.0 movement. I’ll trust folks like Andrea DiMaio, Steve Radick, Gwynne Kostin, Tim O’Reilly and Mark Drapeau to make that point better than I can. But what I did want to offer in terms of sort of a year-end wrap are a number of links to [...]

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Is 2010 the Year #Gov20 becomes #Gov2?

Did you know that the term “gov 2″ simply crushes all other variations of the Gov 2.0 meme in global Google search traffic? Check it out – more than triple the searches for “government 2.0″ and more than 10 times “gov 2.0.” I wish I could explain what this means. (O’Reilly Media is onto the [...]

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Best Twitter Compliment? “I Read Your Page”

If you’ve been on Twitter very long, you’re probably not really reading much of the stream you’ve set up. And if you’re new, you might be struggling to figure out how to keep up with the growing number of updates from your Twitter connections (hint, unless you limit your followings to double digits you simply [...]

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Five Tips for Blog Posts that Pop on Twitter

For niche and fledgling bloggers, it can be quite intimidating to see public stats around some of the big dogs of the blogging world. “There go another 482 retweets for Chris Brogan’s latest post!” you might think, with more than hint of envy. In this post, I want to examine a few ways to get [...]

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How to Build a Kick-Ass Twitter Community

The success of Edmonton, AB’s Twitter community holds lessons for civic engagement.

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#Yeg – Secret Sauce for Twitter Community Success?

Using the Twitter hashtag “#yeg,” Edmonton, AB, residents have achieved a wonder in self-organizing.

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People-Focused Reform: Where’s the Pain Point?

Intriguing conversation tonight on Gov 2.0 Radio with Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft. Shepherd, an experienced leader in intelligence IT projects, argued that the most successful government IT projects – GPS, the Internet – have come in secretive environments. What does that mean for Gov 2.0, open government and “government as a platform?” “I’d like to [...]

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