Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – October 1, 2010

Putting on a mask through Election Day … Steve Henn: No political ‘Promoted’ tweets and trends this election season Doc Gurley: Are you in Crisis mode yet? Why not? Sharon Gaudin: In Schmidt’s vision, Google will search before you even ask David Forbes: Of revolts and social media Marc Drummond: NAGW 2010 – Adriel Hampton, [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 26, 2010

Bittersweet and bliss … Steve Radick: Entrepreneurs – Celebrated in the Private Sector, Hidden in Government Alex Howard: Harnessing the Civic Surplus for Open Government Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Citizen 2.0, Step 3 – Co-Deliver Kristy Fifelski: Lessons from NAGW 2010 Nancy Scola: Luke Fretwell’s Bittersweet GovFresh Experience Adriel Hampton: Gov 2.0 – Creating New Civic Activists

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Twitter for Civic Engagement: Tag it Up

Key to using social media for civic engagement is embracing the culture of a particular medium. On Twitter, hashtags – the addition of the pound or number sign in front of a word with no spaces – are a popular convention for semantic tagging. Hashtags are a user-created feature of Twitter, and the company rolled [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 22, 2010

Manor and Govfresh and NAGW, oh my! Andrea DiMaio: Government 2.0 Requires Perpetual Beta Mike Strand: ‘Stick’ Government Apps: Should Humans Stay in the Information Loop? Tom Raggett: Bringing Real Digital Engagement to the Public SectorGov 2.0 Radio: Yammer CEO David Sacks on Enterprise Social NetworkingDavid Eaves: Getting Government Right Behind the Firewall

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Gov 2.0 and Social Media Resources

In preparation for several upcoming speaking engagements, I’ve been poring through older blogs posts and materials from the past couple of years. In the process, I’ve created several new tabs on my personal Gov 2.0 blog, “Wired to Share.” I hope they are helpful to others, and that if I’ve missed your Gov 2.0 blog [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 18, 2010

To public participation (an all-Alex Howard edition, nearly): Sarah Perez: Study – Location-Based Services Users are Passionate but Niche Alex Howard: Canadian Apps for Climate Change Winners Announced More Alex Howard: Channeling crowdsourcing into distributed work Even more Alex Howard: 2010 is the year of participatory platforms Aaron Wherry: Is public data the future of [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 17, 2010

Up with participation and collaboration: Wayne Moses Burke: Transparency is Dead. Long Live Transparency. Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step 2, Creator David Eaves: Collaborate – ‘Governments Don’t Do That’ Alex Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation and ‘Participation Partition’ the Newest Facet of the Digital Divide, Warns Gruen  [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 16, 2010

Just cool, not just cool tech: Noel Dickover: What is Civil Society 2.0? Andrea DiMaio: Social Media and How to Get Rid of Government Portals (and Vendors) Adriel Hampton: An Avatar Picture Worth 1,000 Friends Alex Howard: Tracking the signals of the Gov 2.0 alpha geeks John Moore: For Gov 2.0, tech is the enabler, [...]

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Fall Speaking Schedule

My fall schedule is quite busy, and I’m looking forward to meet many of my social media friends at several upcoming speaking engagements. So you’ll know where to find me: Citizen 2.0 Workshop – Sunday, Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m., Fairfield, CA – I’ll be leading a session on social media for progressive activists and campaign [...]

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Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 15, 2010

In which we look at gaming, mobile and democracy: Niraj Chokshi: Book Exceprt – Can Video Games be Journalism? Dan Gould: Study – Video Games Can Improve Decision Making Lovisa Williams: The Elephant of Change Susannah Fox: The Power of Mobile Greg Ferenstein: How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy Alex Howard: We’re [...]

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