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Weekly Round-up August 27, 2010

Friday, August 27th, 2010 - 11:21
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 10:55
Here are the articles that caught our attention this week: Gadi Ben-Yehuda
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Yes We Can . . . Compare Apples to Oranges

Thursday, August 19th, 2010 - 16:43
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 16:20
One of the criticisms of the current state of the federal government's open data feeds is that they have yet to produce much measurable change in people's daily lives.  The cartoon below makes that point, as does Matt Rosenberg's 3/17/2010 post, "Mark Drapeau: Gov 2.0 Apps Need Staying Power" in Social Capital Review.  The problem isn't lack of data.  What is missing is two components: First, visualizations of the data that incorporate all t
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Friday Round-Up, August 13, 2010

Friday, August 13th, 2010 - 13:44
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 13:00
From John Kamensky:  Gov Exec: 2010 Census, after all the hoopla:  “On time and under budget”  Gov Exec: Defense abandons insourcing efforts: “we weren’t seeing the savings we had hoped for.” 
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Of Trees and Teleworking

Friday, August 13th, 2010 - 10:09
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 09:57
In the past couple of weeks, the DC metro area was wracked by massive storms that compounded commuting woes (and split an apartment building in half).  My commuting time more than doubled.  Much-
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Thanks for writing about telework - couldn't be a better time to discuss. It's a benefit that impacts employees, agencies, and the environment alike. More agencies are implementing these programs and are seeing significant benefits - increased productivity, recruitment and retention, saving in real estate, etc, etc. The key is to get management on board with this program. It's really a win for them too.

08/13/2010 - 13:13

This was thought-provoking and personal. Thank you for adding links to web calculators and statistics.

09/15/2010 - 11:38
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Friday Round-Up, August 6

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 - 16:01
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 15:57
Privacy vs. Transparency? Four items have caught my attention this week, spurred by this post on GovLoop, "Internet: Defining privacy in a public space" 
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Federal Agency Social Media Hubs

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 - 11:58
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John M. Kamensky
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 11:48
The one that caught my attention was the new Social Media Hub created by Defense to help provide internal-to-Defense education, policy, and the ability for groups in Defense to "register" their social media initiatives in a central location. 
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08/15/2010 - 23:59

For State Department: domestic outreach via social media is grouped together on the home page at state.gov. Additionally, international outreach at embassies is listed at the State Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/usdos#!/usdos?v=app_6009294086.

08/31/2010 - 09:23

The National Institutes of Health has a central point for our social media efforts: http://www.nih.gov/Subscriptions.htm

08/31/2010 - 09:25

The Department of State has an extensive Social Media Hub that is located on our intranet. In fact a majority of the content on the Defense.gov site comes from our site.

We provide How To guides called Social Media Field Guides, Best Practices from around State Department, a Forum section and a Resource and Research section.

We have recently added two new programs to the Social Media Hub - our Ask the Experts program and our Community Managers Group.

By far, our site is one of the most extensive sites for social media in the Federal, State and local governments. We are regularly asked to consult to other agencies on the development of our Social Media Hub and to share some of our content. In the future, we would like to find better ways of sharing the information we develop.

09/01/2010 - 10:13

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a comprehensive hub:
http://www.fws.gov/home/socialmedia

09/16/2010 - 21:17
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GAO: Challenges of Using Web 2.0 in Government

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 - 17:22
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John M. Kamensky
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 17:17
In its testimony, GAO found that 22 of the 24 major federal agencies have a presence on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. “However, agency use of these technologies also may present risks associated with properly managing and protecting government records and sensitive information, including personally identifiable information.”  Key challenges include:   Privacy and Security Challenges Determining how the Privacy Act of 1974 applies
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Profit, Privacy, and Innovation

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 - 13:31
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 11:31
Give us your cookies, your browser history, your torrid search queries, yearning to breathe free. (Sorry, Emma.) That's the deepest desire of online marketers, and it is thanks to them that we have so much content and so many applications available to us free, online, every day. Our data is valuable, but not in itself and not by itself, which is why (a) we give it away so easily and (b) why organizations are trying to collect as much data from as many people as they can.
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Crowdsourcing Government Reform

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 - 14:39
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John M. Kamensky
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 14:34
Shortly after President Obama took office, he reached out to the public for ideas on issues his new administration should address. He sponsored an “Open for Questions” forum and encouraged people to submit questions, and rank and vote on which should be top priorities. More than 100,000 questions were submitted, but participants didn’t always respond to the suggested topic areas, such as home ownership, health care reform, education, veterans, etc. Instead, they added their own and
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Share Your Cookies!

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 - 15:40
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 15:38
I've written before that we don't pay enough attention to privacy.
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