Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. But local and state governments are also setting their data free. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This week, I participated in the Open Government Workshop , which brought together a group of leaders across the federal government sector. The sessions are designed to develop tactical recommendations for federal agencies developing their open government plans, which are due to be published on April 7.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? Impressive. Threats Evolve.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 10, 2010

Here’s a quick-and-dirty explanation of private, corporate, and government grants. Government grants tend to be much larger, but have more strings attached. Tags: Grant Writing grant nonprofit fundraising. When it comes to grantwriting, it can be confusing to decide which kinds of grants to go after.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tags: Influence Government Internet Strategy. A number of federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to online public engagement, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach such online opportunities.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

The Obama Administration announced yesterday what had been widely expected, that Vivek Kundra, former Chief Technology Officer of the Washington DC government, would be taking on the role of Federal Chief Information Officer. Tags: Communication. It's a pretty exciting development!

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available — and valuable — for the public. Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The most interesting part was a session on e-governance featuring R Chandrashekhar and John Suffolk. government and Chandrashekhar is the secretary of India's Ministry of Communications and IT. Both men have received a lot of recognition for changing how their respective governments use technology to provide services.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The Obama Administration released the long anticipated Open Government Directive on Tuesday. It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue. With ever-shrinking budgets, many government entities have been forced to re-evaluate their resource allocations. Tags: Influence Government. If so, please share an example or two below.

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

It includes a new " White House Blog ", and the first posting shows some smart thinking about how a government entity can use a blog. We think there is going to be an increase in interest in effective use of blogs for the government sector, so here are a few quick impressions of what is effective in this first blog post: * Personal: ?I'm

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Forum One

MAY 26, 2009

We are excited about the upcoming June 4 event, " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 for Decision Makers ," where we will hear from a great lineup of speakers about innovative ways government agencies are using the web. Tags: Events. Click here to register. It should be a great session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. I stumbled upon the term "pivot browsing" while researching a workshop I gave about tagging. So, for this week's NpTech Tag Summary, I'm aggregating a few of the best ones. Here they are, in no particular order: Government 2.0.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It explains some of the ups and downs of planning a social media plan for this government-related unit. Tags: Education and Training Marketing and Awareness Tools CDC government plan social media. It is about the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, (CDC) recent creation of a social media unit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? " Michele Martin talks about the barriers to adoption of google tools in government agencies and nonprofits. Privaterra blog showed up in the tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2007

Click To Play Vikas Nath explains his idea that empowerment of women in governance using ICTS should pass via livelihoods. In combination with the easiness of uploading it to various site, and the possibility of tagging and blogging these video productions, it is a powerful way of bringing people closer together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Last night I was able to meet Vivek Kundra, the new Chief Information Officer of the federal government, at an event organized by Full Circle Fund and the Craigslist Foundation hosted by IBM at their offices on Market Street in San Francisco. For me, it's an amazing change. Here's some background on these three key White House staffers.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, Dawn shared how her organization offers nonprofits practical resources and tools to help to get started.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. government. Tags: interview community building gov2.0 Learn more in the interview below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Government as usual is changing fast, because it needs to. We need you to get engaged now, in business, government and the social sector, to build the better world we all need, and that our children and grandchildren will need. Tags: social entrepreneurs O'Reilly Benetech jobs social enterprise Bookshare.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Some online e-commerce stores like Etsy spotlight Black-owned businesses or have a special tag you can search through to find Black-owned businesses to shop at. National Society of Black Engineers The National Society of Black Engineers is a student-governed nonprofit organization with chapters at universities all over the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2009

The National Federation of the Blind convinced the federal government to have the U.S. Tags: dollar BRL Braille silver NFB. Mint strike and sell these Louis Braille Silver Dollars , and some of the money goes to supporting Braille literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. But getting to networked governance governance is a big step.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 29, 2009

The systems for participating in government have been long established and formalized. I'm sure it will be more engaging than the traditional process, while honoring the government's need for transparency. Tags: blog Reply Comments OSTP RFC federal. They often make joint discussion hard.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery – Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. ″ consultants."

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery - Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

and as far as I know, most of the other exceptions) law, there is no approval or authorization by other entities, whether government, publishing industry or the disability consumer organizations. I'm solely focused on the requirements of a nonprofit organization/government agency needs to meet to be eligible to use the exception/norms.

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AFP Blog

MAY 8, 2009

Local Government 2.0 Join me for lunch today at Taste of Town,” Government 2.0 Join me for lunch today at Taste of Town,” Government 2.0 Tags: NPWeb2.0 Uses Facebook, Twitter to Communicate With Public: "The city is one of a growing list of wired municipalities connecting to citizens young and old through social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

And let's take that a step further, why not use social media as part of the governing process. . Networked governance or peer-to-peer governance has worked well in the development of open source software projects. (You How can boards effectively incorporate the use of the social networks and social media to govern?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

And, the same spirit of innovation for a purpose is affecting nonprofits and government as well. We need you to get engaged now, in business, government and the social sector, to build the better world we all need, and that our children and grandchildren will need. Tags: social entrepreneurs O'Reilly matters.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Social networks and social media has busted out of the marketing communications and fundraising silos and changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, manage, and even govern. governing through networks. Tags: liveblogging 10ntc bethkanter events networked nonprofit networking. Register Now! —— [link]. simplicity.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Indeed, armed with this information someone can gain valuable insights into usability issues that can then govern what changes one makes to the site to best optimize the visitor experience. The conversion map has a great filtering capability, and the program allows you to tag individual users to track how they behave on repeated visits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

One is on the idea of government 2.0, or government-as-a-platform. The second is on whether the net is better for campaigning than governing. " Tags: roundup bookmarks. And the third is on what happens when you open up the process with real-time transparency. Let me see if I can combine the threads."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

Since co-authoring Social by Social last year, David Wilcox and I have had the opportunity to collaborate and facilitate various events for community and local government groups. Tags: collaboration events format innovation projectspaces socialbysocial. Check out the Project Spaces wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. For others, the concept of ???public public information???

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