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Did you know GovLoop has a group called "Budgeteers"?It was created by the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) to gather practitioners and academics in the fields of budget and program analysis.They held an event today at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC, under the theme, "Budgeting in a Changin (Read More)
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We've been covering in some detail the U.S. State Department's efforts to foster new conversations and smooth some of life's more difficult transactions using technology, from promoting digital violence tracking in Mexico to encouraging social networking in Pakistan to setting up mobile banking in Afghanis (Read More)
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SEIU's latest online health care push recycles technology from the 2008 Obama campaign, but adds a new Twitter twist.
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Those who follow us on Facebook and Twitter probably know that we are participating in Tweetsgiving. We have sponsored some great prizes for the Richmond celebration.What is Tweetsgiving? Check out the details on their website. Basically it is social media for social good. Last year all of the funds were donated to support (Read More)
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Coming out of last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, the industry buzz was focused on the usual – cloud computing, social networking, and what to do with the latest Google innovation.But one catchy hook caught the ears of a few reporters: dot-gov is the new dot-com.One project announced during the Expo is looking to int (Read More)
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Hurricanes might gather force, low-lying areas pool with water, and wildfires rage much as they long have. But today they rise as a challenge to a different American people. From mobile phones to Twitter, the communications networks woven into our daily lives would be unrecognizable to the victims of the San Francisco eart (Read More)
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The increasing emphasis by which we are referring to the rapid and deep-going socio-economic changes created by our generation’s adoption of social media technology has made me wonder at times if we aren’t falling victims of Chronocentrism, believing that the impact of our generation's time in history is superior to all oth (Read More)
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While I look back over the last year, I see that some of the things that I am most thankful for would not have happened unless something bad had happened first.Economic Downturn:While the recession has caused many hardships, it has also spurred creativity, innovation and an appreciation of the simpler things in life.The eco (Read More)
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I wanted to make everyone in the GovLoop community aware that there is currently an open call for proposals for the O'Reilly Media / TechWeb - produced Gov 2.0 Expo, to be held in Washington DC in May. The success of the Expo Showcase and Summit in Sepember have made me confident that the Expo program will be innovative, in (Read More)
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Over the past several years, with the explosion of freely available social media tools and the corresponding increase in the public’s use of these, I’ve become more and more consumed with a central challenge that social media presents to branding. Specifically, with these two disciplines we have two seemingly opposing rules (Read More)
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ProductivitySocial media tools can be valuable resources when used for work-related activities, but inappropriate use of these tools can be a drain on employer resources. Therefore, if an employer supports the use of social media tools during work hours, then that employer’s social media policy should include a reminder to (Read More)
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Facebook is an extremely powerful social media community that has become larger than I am sure many Facebook executives would admit they thought was possible. Facebook had over 2.5 billion visits last month (10/2009), which is quite stunning. There are millions of people visiting Facebook billions of times a month to commun (Read More)
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the GovTwit directory. Started as a simple blog post listing about 150 IDs, the directory now contains over 2,500 names of agencies and individuals in the public sector who are using Twitter to share information and ideas about critical issues facing government.In the past year we've (Read More)
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As public affairs officials determine how government agencies should use social networking sites to communicate with the public, the rest of the governments employees are busy communicating on their own site, Govloop.Govloop was developed by former DHS IT Specialist Steve Ressler and is often described as “The Facebook for (Read More)
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I wrote this comment in response to an article written by Marian Salzman, President, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America.(Transparency note: I worked for Marian a decade ago as VP and Editorial Director of the Intelligence Factory, she introduced me to branding, and I consider her a genius.)It's called "How Should Markete (Read More)