How Technology Can Transform Cities from Newsweek.
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Chris
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Chris
Another of the Governing magazine articles on social media in government: The Web 2.0 Paper Trail Problem. At issue in this article is complying with open records requests in social network communications.
Many people use open records compliance issues as a reason not to utilize social networks and social media. If you make the Facebook page for your city and your Twitter account public, where is the issue? A citizen can see everything that has occurred. It is, by definition, open. I think this is a moot issue.
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followyourgov
New post: Is There a Web 2.0 Open Records Problem? http://bit.ly/6d8YW1
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Chris
The Promise of Open Government: How data can unlock government and open it up to citizens as never before, from Governing.
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followyourgov
New post: Promise of Open Government http://bit.ly/89z6Ub
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Chris
More on the challenges for open government, from InformationWeek.
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Chris
“Social Networking Use Increases, But Has Yet to Transform Government,” from Government Technology. Very interesting article on how social networking is currently being used and where it is going to go.
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followyourgov
New post: Best Recent Article: Social Networking Use Increases http://bit.ly/8ZYDH7
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Chris
Dries Buytaert, project lead for the Drupal open source content management system, believes Drupal will be used for many open government websites created in response to the recent White House directive.
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followyourgov
New post: More Open Gov Sites with Drupal? http://bit.ly/5nC8nn
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Chris
Social Computing Journal has 7 government 2.0 predictions for 2010, which include: self-service integration (and mashups), increased transparency and citizen involvement (due to apps), and incorporating more social media.
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followyourgov
New post: Gov 2.0 Predictions for 2010 http://bit.ly/5tGIH9
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clindsey
RT @followyourgov: New post: Gov 2.0 Predictions for 2010 http://bit.ly/5tGIH9
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Chris
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followyourgov
New post: Governing on Open Government http://bit.ly/6XIYsY
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Chris
The White House has asked agencies to publish data (to Data.gov) within 45 days, and:
Following the three-data-set action, each branch has to create an Open Government Webpage at http://www.agency.gov/open to function as the “gateway” to activities in that area. The site must also include a mechanism for public feedback about the process, and government agencies must respond to the comments they receive. And within 120 days they have to publish comments on how they plan to improve their openness policies.
That’s good work!
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followyourgov
New post: White House Wants to Release More Data http://bit.ly/8EuCk7
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Chris
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followyourgov
New post: Open Gov Challenges http://bit.ly/8kfsnI
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followyourgov
New post: Accessibility and Transparency http://bit.ly/5Og8xz
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Chris
The policy director of the Sunlight Foundation discusses the government transparency movement.
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followyourgov
New post: Discussion of Gov Transparency Movement http://bit.ly/7Y1jgc
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Chris
Gartner analyst Andrea DiMaio: When Security Concerns Are An Elegant Excuse Not To Tackle Government 2.0. I have to agree completely, and don’t miss this great quote:
… the crux of the matter is (1) to empower employees to access external social networks (2) in order to find useful avenues to deliver value to both their constituencies and their agencies.
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followyourgov
New post: On Security Worries with Gov 2.0 http://bit.ly/5OstQU
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Chris
Great list of 6 examples of government crowd-sourcing and getting public opinion online (here’s more on crowd-sourcing).
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followyourgov
New post: Example Gov Crowdsourcing Sites http://bit.ly/5tJatA
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chokha
Example Gov Crowdsourcing Sites « FollowYourGov http://bit.ly/73Bog1
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Chris
In a follow up to the recent Drupal rollout at whitehouse.gov, the White House media team recently spoke with Drupal developers. Whitehouse.gov is working to roll out custom news feeds, user authentication, and more tagged, searchable raw data. They are also looking into releasing some of their custom code to the open source community.
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followyourgov
New post: White House Website Expansion http://bit.ly/50oYrW
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followyourgov 8:26 am on February 6, 2010 Permalink
New post: Technology Transforming Cities http://bit.ly/azi2b8
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