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 example – the infamous Twitter fail whale. Countless users have bemoaned the unreliability of Twitter, though [...]
Chris Anderson on “Delivering on the Promise of Gov 2.0″
March 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · raves, reviews
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More Thoughts on Transparency Camp 09
March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · raves
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 2.0 tools like blogging. There’s a real can-do spirit, which is in marked contrast to continuing [...]
Tags:blogging·creativity·gov·government·social media·sxsw·twitter·Web 2.0
Transparency Camp 09: Pushing Government Forward
March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · rants
What’s Transparency Camp?
This un-conference is about convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.
In practice, this meant a very smart and [...]
Tags:creativity·gov·social media·twitter·Web 2.0
Pimp My Nonprofit: Student Movement for Real Change
February 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · reviews
Last night, I attended “Pimp My Nonprofit,” an event by NetSquared DC designed to help a worthy nonprofit better use technology. More than thirty people with a wide range of online marketing skills and interests took part in this meetup at the Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan. Drinks and snacks, key to any brainstorming session, [...]
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How I Learned to Love Twitter
May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I was at SXSW last year when Twitter launched. They had monitors outside conference rooms showing “tweets” from users, little random bits of text unfurling on a screen. I thought it was interesting, like a bad stream of consciousness novel, but didn’t see the point. Why would I want to let the world know about [...]
How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I twitter, post pictures on Flickr, comment on other people’s blogs and write my own blog postings. More than once, I’ve been asked, “How much time does that take?”
Really, not much. 5-10 hours a week at most, time that I’d otherwise spend watching TV, I’m sure. Museum 2.0 has a great post on how much time [...]