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Social Media Creates Social Good in Communities

Chris — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:36 +0000

How Social Media Creates Offline Social Good, from Mashable.

Technology Transforming Cities

Chris — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:43:33 +0000

How Technology Can Transform Cities from Newsweek.

BART Using FourSquare for Social Networking

Chris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:18:06 +0000

Governing has another great article on web 2.0 in government, about the pursuit of “the next big thing”. They interview the web team of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) on working with FourSquare (a location-based social network)

Struggling with Social Media Strategy

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:54:55 +0000

A good interview on the struggles organizations face (ehem, ROI) with deploying social media and social networking strategies.

Learning from Social Media

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:51 +0000

Adobe’s Government blog on applying the lessons of social media to government services.

Pentagon’s Social Network Used in Haiti

Chris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:52 +0000

Pentagon’s Social Network Becomes Hub for Haiti Relief | Danger Room | Wired.com.

Gov 2.0 and Social CRM

Chris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:50:34 +0000

More government 2.0 predictions (relating to social CRM software).

Local Govs Need to Release More Data

Chris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:48:01 +0000

How user friendly data (from governments) and civic app contests complement journalism.

DoD Wikis and Scientific Collaboration

Chris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:40:15 +0000

The DoDLive blog, an official Department of Defense blog, writes about how the Defense Department has used wikis to increase scientific collaboration.

On Social Networking Security

Chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:39:46 +0000

Sophos released an advisory on security risks with social networking this past week. ReadWriteWeb has a great article on the subject, and has this recommendation:

The real solution to the social networking security problem is to embrace sites instead of blocking them. Rather than being overly restrictive, companies would do better to make social networking policies a part of their corporate policy and procedure manuals, spelling out what is and is not acceptable within their organization. Left up to users, it’s clear that for some, it’s anything goes…and that’s a danger most companies cannot afford.

Tweeting to Bring Attention

Chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:11:11 +0000

Wired on using Twitter to get the attention of transit officials (and SF Mayor Gavin Newsome).

Code for America and Local Gov Web 2.0

Chris — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:21:07 +0000

A new group called Code for America (which is backed by Tim O’Reilly) is trying to help local governments “leverage the power of the web.” GovTech has a great article on this new group.

They are on Twitter at @codeforamerica.

Social Media and Haiti Relief

Chris — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:08:48 +0000

Student article on how Haiti relief efforts are effectively utilizing social media sites.

More Cloud and Open Source for Government

Chris — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:30:25 +0000

InformationWeek has a great article about the US government using more open source and putting more information in the cloud.

Online Discussion with IdeaScale

Chris — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:12:31 +0000

Here’s a Federal Times article on federal agencies using the IdeaScale platform to do online discussion forums. IdeaScale’s demo can be seen here, along with their OpenGov forum (done in conjunction with the National Academy of Public Administration). And ReadWriteWeb has a good overview of IdeaScale.

Also, IdeaScale is @IdeaScale on Twitter.