So, in the Government 2.0 discourse, we’re constantly saying that “it’s not about the tools and technologies.” Rather, it’s about a shift in the way we do business — a shift to collaboration. So why is it so tough to get organizations to adopt collaborative tools, mindsets and practices? Why are so many organizations pushing back on using […]
So, is that the end of the conversation?
I’ve been reading blogs and articles this morning about Squidoo and BzzAgent’s Brands in Public project that launched (and flopped?) back in late September 2009. Brands in Public aggregates the conversation about a brand that’s going on in real-time across the social web. It pulls feeds from Twitter, photos from Flickr, blog posts and articles into […]
Going Dutch
This past Tuesday, Mark Drapeau and I had the honor of meeting with a delegation of new media representatives from the 13 ministries of the government of the Netherlands. I found it fascinating that the 13 Dutch ministries are so coordinated in their new media efforts. The group with which we met coordinates efforts and shares information cross-ministries. […]
Catalyzing Congressional Collaboration
This morning a colleague of mine forwarded me Nancy Scola’s Personal Democracy Forum post Are Congressional “New Media” Clubs Missing the Point? In short, Nancy challenges whether Congressional new media caucuses are “simply self-serving clubs dedicated to winning the YouTube-Facebook-Twitter arms race.” (Just perfectly articulated, I think.) If so, she explains, they are missing the point and losing an […]
On C-SPAN Today
This afternoon I was fortunate enough to moderate the Engaging the Public in Conversation panel at the Potomac Forum& GovCollab.org’s Gov 2.0 Leadership, Collaboration and Public Engagement Best Practices Symposium at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center in DC. All four panelists were really outstanding in both the content of the case studies they […]
Engaging a Community to Solve Its Own Acute Needs
MiXT Media Strategies — in conjunction with iStrategyLabs and MindFarm — is currently working on a client project with a group in Alexandria, VA that is interested in utilizing social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to more efficiently and effectively solve the acute needs — think: hunger, homelessness, etc. — of its community by increasing the […]
Hashtags: bridges between communities
I had an interesting brief chat this morning at eDemocracyCamp with Peter Corbett. We were talking about the power of hashtags. Most people don’t yet understand that hashtags are an extremely strategic, powerful and valuable way to inform targeted communities about related concepts, events and topics. For example, if I am attending eDemocracyCamp and hear […]
The “unorganization” phenomenon
Over the past few weeks I have come across a number of projects and initiatives being led by “unorganizations” — groups of people who come together for a common cause, but who are independent agents and not a formal corporation, organization or association of any sort. The first was, of course, the recent unconference that […]
I talked about Government 2.0 Camp on Federal News Radio today
I was honored to be interviewed by Chris Dorobek on Federal News Radio this afternoon. Here’s the clip: Medication errors can happen anywhere, but you can protect yourself. There are many of legal online drugstores that will offer legitimate discounts. Certainly it isn’t all. If you’re concerned about sexual disease, you perhaps already know about sofosbuvir […]
Social Media 101 Presentation
Here is the Social Media 101 presentation that I gave this morning as part of the the Advanced Learning Institute’s Social Media for Government Social Media 101 Pre-Conference Workshop. [slideshare id=1185070&doc=socialmediaforgovernment3-23-09-090323112920-phpapp01] Ken Fischer and I then co-led the workshop and he did a great presentation on Information for the Greatest Good. I am looking forward […]
