Posted by: John Kamensky
in MyBlog on Oct 01, 2009
Posted on
BizGov Blog 9/30/09 -
There were lots of complaints that the initial
Recovery.Gov website was not very helpful. That’s changed. The newly-refreshed website now has lots of new ways of finding and looking at information that is due to pour in next month when the first quarterly reports are due from about 90,000 sources.
Government Executive’s NextGov reporter, Aliya Sternstein provides a good review:
Posted by: Camille Auspitz
in MyBlog on Sep 09, 2009
A jam-packed program of more than two-dozen, 5-minute presentations in five categories made for a potentially mind numbing day. Yet the Gov2.0 Expo Showcase, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC yesterday, was full of poignant, powerful and pithy examples of successful web 2.0 initiatives happening throughout federal, state and local governments.
Posted by: John Kamensky
in MyBlog on Sep 02, 2009
Posted on BizGov Blog 9/2/2009 - A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials. Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found that these agency blogs “elicit more controversy than expected” and that they “have more posts and comments” than related, but non-agency sponsored blogs.
Posted by: Brad King
in IT/Cyber Security on Jul 19, 2009
Google's recent announcement of open source development of their Chrome Operating System appears to be a good old fashioned "throw down" challenge to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop OS - and its position as the fundamental point of departure for enterprise systems architecture.
Posted by: Brad King
in PPP on Jul 17, 2009
My colleagues have given me some flak over the fact that many of the visitors to this site will have no idea what "PPP" is in the set of topic selections that you see at the head of this portal. It's true, not too many people in the US Federal government circles are talking about Public Private Partnership these days. I think we should be talking more about this. In fact, I don't think many of the most important issues of our day can be addressed in the absence of rigorous application of global best practices in Public Private Partnership.
