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GovFresh - Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people

Andrea DiMaio — A member of the Gartner Blog Network Andrea Di Maio Managing VP 15 years at Gartner 28 years IT industry Andrea Di Maio is a managing vice president for public sector in Gartner Research, covering government and education. His personal research focus is on digital government strategies strategies, Web 2.0, open government, cloud computing, the business value of IT, smart cities, and the impact of technology on the future of government Read Full Bio Will A Digital Father’s Day Ever Be the Same? by Andrea Di Maio | March 19, 2014 | 4 Comments In my country today is Father’s Day . I am happy for him he felt that way, but I would not. Does this make me a luddite? As people around the world cry for more digital economy, digital business, digital government, digital education, we should take a deep breath and reflect about the long term implications of these changes in many aspects of our lives. When I was a kid I used to accompany my mother for some errands at the local stores: the grocery, the bakery, the butcher. Goodbye Marco.

Social Features Showing up on More BPM Wish Lists | Blogs | ITBu A few months ago I wrote about a trend that appeared to be gaining steam, the addition of collaborative features to business process management software. I noted that there's "a growing recognition that many enterprise software applications would be more effective if they made it easier for people to share ideas with their coworkers (or with partners and customers)." This trend is broader than BPM. Sales On-Demand, a nascent software-as-a-service application announced by SAP at last week's Sapphire conference, incorporates collaborative features. That middle ground seems to be what Adam Deane would like to see more of in BPM software, judging from a recent post on his Business Process and Workflow blog. Think any BPM vendors are listening to folks like Deane? Another of Deane's wish list items is better mobile support. A few of Deane's other items would facilitate greater collaboration, though not necessarily by enabling direct user interactions.

OpenPublic Audience: Site administrators, Developers and coders, Documentation contributors, Themers For government and public policy organizations, open source only works if it’s built for the security, accessibility, and flexibility requirements of the public sector. The open government and open data initiatives provide ample opportunities for innovation in web applications and data visualization. But without security and accessibility measures that we can trust, our “open” goals cannot be achieved. OpenPublic provides a distribution specially designed for open government requirements, such as improving citizen services, providing public access to data and providing a public forum for two way communication with agencies, without compromising accessibility, security, or usability. Built from experience working with top-level government agencies and organizations. More at: A full drupal install is available below. drush make --prepare-install build-openpublic.make openpublic

Twishitter: Twitter Apps Head Towards The Gutter It’s inevitable. A platform becomes popular, gains mainstream appeal, and the race to the bottom begins. We saw this happen with the iPhone, where a plethora of farting applications hit the store. But it happens, at least in part, because people enjoy the humorous, crude app every once in a while. The success that iFart and other apps of that ilk point to this — or at least to their novelty. Now Twitter is getting it’s own gross apps. Twishitter is a service meant for one purpose: To collect people’s tweets while in the bathroom. To use it, simply include either “@twishitter” or “#poo” in your tweets, and they’ll appear in the Twishitter timeline. Yeah, it’s stupid, and yeah it’s gross, but at least the creators have a sense of humor. Here’s a few choice bits from the site:

Gov 2.0: Open source matters to open government. Really. “Open source and open government are not the same,” I’ve been reading recently. When discussing the role of open standards in open government transparency projects, Bob Caudill at Adobe, is concerned that open source and open standards are being conflated. He likes open standards just fine, but: “Open standards are driving for interoperability between systems or applications, while, the goal of open source is to make high-quality software available to the market free of charge.” As an open source advocate, I’m surprised. “For those who have been following some of the vintage discussions about government and open source, this will probably sound like a déjà vu. While they both agree on the importance of open standards (although transparency also seems to annoy DiMaio), they also remind us that tools, proprietary or open source, are a means to an end. They’re right, of course, that open standards are crucial to ensuring meaningful transparency in government.

The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” Guide | Social Media S In the last few months, I’ve received an increasing number of “hey Steve, how would you recommend someone get started in social media or Government 2.0?” emails, and I’ve gotten tired of sending out the same emails time and time again. I’ve been meaning to write a post like this for a while, but even I was little overwhelmed at the resources available! So, here’s my attempt at creating a post (with comments) that will hopefully become a helpful resource for those interested in learning more about social media and the Government. *I realize that there will be GREAT resources out there that I miss in this post – PLEASE add them below as a comment so that others may benefit!!! The Fundamentals Government 2.0 is about more than just social media. The Starter Videos Baby Steps Do a Google search on your name. Setting the Stage The government – federal, state, and local – isn’t some late adopter in social media. Books If you’re a book reader, go out and get the following: Daily Reading Newsletters

How Web 2.0 Can Reinvent Government Traditionally slow to change, bureaucratic in decision-making and constantly under public scrutiny, governments are ripe for new collaborative technologies, says Anthony Williams, co-author with Don Tapscott of the groundbreaking book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Portfolio, 2007). That book detailed how Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networking would radically transform business models and alter the way organizations think about collaborative relationships. These days, Williams, vice president and executive editor at the international business innovation think tank New Paradigm, and Tapscott, its CEO, have set their sights on what they call "Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government and Democracy." Williams says the Web offers the public sector huge opportunities to collaborate with citizens. CIO Insight: What's the state of e-government in 2008? Are there many differences between Web 2.0 use in the public and private sectors?

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