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Coding HTML By Hand in Government
Gwynne Kostin has written about how efforts like the Online Presidential Town Hall can reveal larger problems. In her article, she mentions that world-class government web sites, like the Centers for Disease Control, hand-code web pages. Most large-scale web sites use … Continue reading
Why Doesn’t Government Use the Web to Organize Its Work?
I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It’s a brilliant book on the information revolution that we’re going through. He believes that this revolution is as momentous as the development of the printing press, which triggered the Reformation … Continue reading
Vivek Kundra at FOSE on Transforming Government
Vivek Kundra is the newly appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the federal government. He is the first federal CIO ever and previously served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia. He spoke this morning at FOSE, … Continue reading
Chris Anderson on “Delivering on the Promise of Gov 2.0″
Chris Anderson, of Wired magazine and “The Long Tail” fame, was the keynote speaker at FOSE this morning. He spoke on “For the People and By the People: Delivering on the Promise of Gov 2.0″. Anderson started off with an interesting … Continue reading
More Thoughts on Transparency Camp 09
Some more random thoughts about Transparency Camp 09. Here are my big take-aways from the conference. Excitement: There’s a tremendous amount of enthusiasm among enlightened advocates of government transparency, fueled by the election of Obama and the mainstreaming of Web … Continue reading
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Government Web Sites Grapple with YouTube
YouTube is ubiquitous. Millions of people visit the site every day. For the Wired Generation, it’s the functional equivalent of television. Yet, despite the vast audience of YouTube, many government agencies do not make their videos available on the site. … Continue reading
Will Obama Empower Government 2.0?
There’s a really interesting article in the New York Times on how Obama tapped the power of social networks to fuel his run for the presidency. Here’s the nut graph: Like a lot of Web innovators, the Obama campaign did … Continue reading
Should Government Employees Blog?
This is 2008. Everyone these days has a blog. Yet, within some sectors of government, there is resistance to using this not-so-new communications tool. Why? What are the “perceived risks”? We don’t trust our employees. This comes across in two … Continue reading
Government Web Managers Conference Presentations Online
The presentations from the Government Web Managers Conference are now online. There’s a wealth of useful information in these slides, relevant to all web managers, not just government ones. The highlights for me were: Janice Nall from the Centers for … Continue reading
2008 Government Web Managers Best Practice Award Winners
Congratulations to… CDC.gov The Centers for Disease Control have really been a leader when it comes to adopting new technologies to reach out to the public. They use email updates, RSS, podcasts, blogs, Second Life, Whyville and other tools to … Continue reading