See the live version.Government workers and their contractors are intensely interested in everything that is being said about Gov 20 now and would like a place where they could get a distillation and visualization of that. Well today we can show you one solution that provides some interesting insights!
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Social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have rapidly become the organizing platforms for protest movements throughout the world.
But the BlackBerry Messenger service has proven to be the network of choice among those staying on top of the riots and looting that have gripped London in the past two days, according to a report from TechCrunch. Keep reading →
Steven VanRoekel, the White House’s newly-named federal chief information officer wasted little time thanking Twitter followers from his new account, @stevenvDC at the Office of Management and Budget’s CIO office.
In one of his first messages, he wrote: Keep reading →
Last week, President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with – what else? – a tweet.
And then he sent another tweet to get the conversation really going: “Today 2:07 PM Obama says: in order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep – both.”
Before it ended about an hour later, a number of well-known tweeters (e.g. House Speaker John Boehner) and lots of lesser known folks had tweeted hoping to catch the President’s attention and get a personal response to their question or comment.
While lots of commentary has already and will be written about this historic event, I thought I could provide something different (wearing my data scientist/data journalist hat) and parse his tweets, and those of previous town halls, if I could just recover the tweet steam. I used Searchtastic to retrieved 346 Tweets for visualization. Keep reading →
Steve Wozniak’s eclectic experience as relentless tinkerer, entrepreneur, and longtime hero in the geek community — known now as much for his appearance on “Dancing With The Stars” as he is for co-founding Apple, Inc. — attracted a standing-room only crowd at the Washington Convention Center yesterday. And the Woz did not disappoint.
Wozniak served as a much as human icon for the technology world as he did as a keynote speaker at the 35th annual FOSE Exposition, a government technology trade show. Keep reading →
Federal agencies are embracing social media as an increasingly common way to interact with the public. Yet, a critical consideration that is often overlooked by agency officials is how social media will be incorporated in disaster and emergency preparedness plans. If your agency hasn’t fully developed a social media plan for disaster preparedness scenarios, it’s time to add it to your priority “to do” list!
Information about practically everything – both factual and wildly inaccurate – now travels around the globe literally in minutes, through new communication tools – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, to name a few. In a natural or manmade disaster, if you don’t reach out to the public with the facts quickly, someone else will get there with rumor – and as we all know, misinformation can cause havoc, create panic, and potentially increase danger to those at risk who we want to protect. Keep reading →
Marine Gen. James Cartwright, outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said historical reliance on proprietary technology solutions and antiquated acquisition rules have left the Defense Department “pretty much in the stone age as far as IT is concerned.”
Cartwright spoke about the importance of adapting to social media and moving faster to address cyber threats. Keep reading →
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is forging ahead with its plans to digitize billions of documents, a project that will take years to complete and that already has faced criticism over out-of-control costs.
At the helm of this digital effort is Pamela Wright, the chief Digital Access Strategist for the archives. She’s been in this job for just a year, overseeing NARA’s internal and external web pages, social media efforts and Online Public Access (OPA) prototype, the public face of its electronic records archives. Keep reading →