Excellent article posted on October 30th 2008, by Peter M. Shane at the Huffington Post ‘Voting for Democracy: The Obama Vision of Open Government and Public Engagement’
Some excerpts:
The stakes here are hard to overstate. Americans have within their grasp a host of communication tools that could sustain a robust democratic culture of sharing, creativity and […]
Voting for Democracy: The Obama Vision of Open Government and Public Engagement
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Government 2.0, Government Policy, Politics, Trust, USA, Web 2.0, transparency
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DOD deepens Web 2.0 pool
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Government 2.0, USA, Web 2.0
Excerpts from a post by By Doug Beizer on Federal Computer Week
Wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools will be critical to improving communication and collaboration among Defense Department employees and warfighters, according to recent DOD statements.
DOD officials launched a wiki, called DOD Techipedia, on Oct. 1 as a way to improve collaboration among agency […]
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Obama’s Social Media Advantage
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics, USA, Web 2.0
Article by Frederic Lardinois on Read Write web yesterday on ‘Obama’s Social Media Advantage’
…overall blog mentions of Obama and McCain varied greatly during the last year (and we can’t say if those were positive or negative posts), close to 500 million blog postings mentioned him since the beginning of the conventions at the end of […]
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