Why Posterous Is a Smart Tool For Informal Government Blogging
For a few weeks, I’ve been testing a tool called Posterous, and I’ve come to like it a lot. You can see my account here. If you’re not familiar with Posterous, it is essentially a very simple blogging...
View ArticleThe Emerging Twitter List Arms Race
I use Twitter a lot, but I was not among the very first to see the new Lists feature. I can now, though. And what I find much more interesting than actually using the feature myself is the fact that I...
View ArticleQuarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?
Loren Feldman. 1938 Media. Audience Conference. That’s about as much of a summary as you’ll find about the Audience Conference held in New York last Friday. That’s because there were no open laptops...
View ArticleWhat Does Innovative Social Engagement Look Like For Businesses and Governments?
I’ve been thinking about the topic of Government 2.0 a lot lately. Part of this topic deals with the multi-directional engagement between government and citizens. This is what the White House and...
View ArticleWatching the Retweeted Get Retweeted-er: Power User Secret Retweetist Love
When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When they let their users know what it might look like, people debated whether that was the...
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Government 2.0: Five Predictions for 2010-12
Under no pressure from anyone, I’ve forced this obligatory “end of year predictions” post upon myself. People always ask me where I think Government 2.0 is going anyway, I may as well get some writing...
View ArticleWhat Would Always-On-The-Record Government Look Like?
Recently, I wrote a post about Government 2.0 predictions for 2010-12, and one of them was that government would “always be on-the-record.” By that I meant that the combination of (1) the proliferation...
View ArticleWhat Company Will Be the eHarmony of Microblogging?
A New York Times article by David Carr rehashing common knowledge on “why Twitter will endure” got me thinking about the ways in which it will not endure, or the ways in which it may endure via which...
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The three phases of Government 2.0
As the program co-chair for the upcoming Gov 2.0 Expo, I’ve had a lot of time to learn about what’s happening at the edges of the space. And through my experience working on the topic with the...
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