So, I heard back promptly from Hugh Hartford at Banyak Films. They are very interested in and open to having the U.S. premiere of Us Now at the Government 2.0 unconference–yay! This will be a great addition. Related to this, but not dependent upon this, I AM planning move forward with the Government 2.0 unconference […]
Us Now: a film about government 2.0
Last week I learned of a new documentary film entitled Us Now: a film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. The documentary is directed by Ivo Gormley and produced in the UK by Banyak films in association with the RSA. Here’s a brief explanation from the Us Now site: In a […]
Government 2.0 BarCamp unconference
I had an idea on Thursday that’s gotten me really excited but which has been burning a hole in my head and taking up way too much of my mental energy since its inception. So, I started to run it by a few folks to see if I’m out of my mind or if I have something here. For […]
Emerging Technologies for Defense Applications conference: notes and commentary
On Monday, October 27, 2008, I attended the Emerging Technologies for Defense Applications conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City, Arlington, VA. I was sad to see that I was the only one at the conference expanding the conversation beyond the walls of the Ritz via Twitter. You can see my Twitter feed by […]
Twitter challenges for government agencies
Today I read and commented on Silicon Valley Insider’s post “The US Government Catches The Twitter Bug, And Amazingly, Does It Well” by Eric Krangel. In the post Eric asserts that “some of the best and most innovative new media experiments going on right now on the Internet are coming from the U.S. federal government.” […]
Who is educating whom?
I spent this morning at Collaborative Expedition Workshop #76, “Strategic Leadership For Networking and Information Technology Education,” at the National Science Foundation. The topic of the workshop was envisioning greater possibilities for strategic leadership in networking and information technology education. The premise was basically that U.S. competitiveness in information technology is declining. Mark Regets a […]
Collaborative Government: Recapturing Our Founding Principle
I had coffee this morning with Mark Drapeau, National Defense University fellow and author of two terrific recent and impressive articles on Mashable about government 2.0. As I was driving to my DoD office afterwards, I was thinking about the implications of government 2.0 and began to establish this concept of collaborative government. Now, for the first […]
Secretary of Innovation: a role in the next administration?
So, I was e-mailing with my former boss from IdeaScope, Bob Johnston, who has a phenomenal background in applied innovation and the creative process. He also has a lovely cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. It turns out that Bob and I are going to both be on the Vineyard at the same time later this month and […]
Key Take-Aways from Government Web Content Managers Forum
Happily, Jeffrey Levy, Director of Communications at EPA started the call off on the right foot with mission being the necessary driver of all social media tool usage. Start with NEED, then figure out how social media tools can help to achieve that goal. Get away from destination sites — social media tools enable that […]
