A big thanks to all of those who came out and participated in this afternoon’s Social Media Week DC event, Snacktime: Collaboratively Improving Kids’ Nutrition & Fitness….and Having Some Fun Along the Way. I am proud to say that this was the only Social Media Week DC event that had programming specifically for kids. Kid […]
Happy Family Brands is bringing snack…
I am pleased to announce that Happy Family Brands will be bringing smoothies for our Snacktime event on 2/16…yummy! If you’re a company or non-profit interested in providing in-kind sponsorship, distributing relevant materials or showcasing your capabilities at our event, please contact me. This is a collaborative event that should maximize value for all […]
Update on Snacktime event for Social Media Week DC
Okay, things are coming together. Thanks to Jackie McKinney at KidPower who sent me an email that got me moving again on this event, we have a great venue: Harriet Tubman Elementary School (3101 13th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010) in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in DC. The format of the event will be as follows: Kids Panel: (20 mins) […]
Snacktime — The Event I’m Planning for Social Media Week DC
As one of the board members of Social Media Week DC, I am in the process of finalizing my event. The session that I’m creating is called Snacktime: Collaboratively Improving Kids’ Nutrition and Having Some Fun Along the Way and will be on the afternoon of Thursday, February 16th (venue and exact timeframe will be ironed […]
“Discovering & Finding Meaning,” by Jeff Pulver
I wanted to share with you the content from a terrific and inspiring email that I (& the rest of his distro list) received from Jeff Pulver just before Thanksgiving. This is a transcription from an interview he did during the #140conf Tel Aviv on November 2nd. I am posting this because I simply could not […]
Transitioning from “Social Media” to “Mission Media”
I was honored to deliver the keynote presentation at this morning’s “Transitioning from ‘Social Media’ to ‘Mission Media’: Using Social Media for DoD Missions” event produced by Adobe Systems, Blue Beacon Consulting and Carahsoft. My presentation is below as well as posted SlideShare. The slides are, by design, sparse… I often say that PowerPoint should be revoked […]
“Let Us Go Boldly Into the Present,” says Michael Edson
I had the pleasure of attending OpenText’s Purpose-Driven Speakers Series event yesterday morning in DC at the Willard. Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution, was the terrific presenter. Not only was he funny, relevant, quick and fresh, his presentation was grounded in decades of management theory and technology history. […]
Using Search as a Strategic Advantage for Government Websites
The Obama Administration’s recently announced Campaign to Cut Waste’s Web Reform initiative has prompted quite a bit of discussion about how agencies can most efficiently and effectively reduce government websites by almost 2,000. In his post “It’s Not Just Domains and Data – Content, Analytics Key for Fed Web Reform,” Mike Rupert, discusses the importance of using […]
Training to operate effectively in a new field of maneuver
It’s clear from the Department of Defense’s 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, the Directive-Type Memorandum 09-026 about Internet-based Capabilities (IbCs) and the stand-up of CYBERCOM that DoD is committed to the Internet and IbCs. To successfully navigate this field of maneuver, it’s critical that DoD appropriately train and equip its workforce, on both the responsible (defensive) […]
Defining the Scope of OpenGov at DoD
The Open Government Directive (OGD), encourages agencies to be more transparent, participatory and collaborative, internally, cross-agency and externally. It requires agencies to have an “open stance” rather than a closed stance regarding information sharing: “share it unless you can’t” rather than “don’t share it unless someone requests it.” This approach is similar to our judiciary […]
