Howard Rheingold's Vlog - Flock. Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - Flock. Amanda Zhang; Jenna Gunderson; Sean Westwood; Tina Lee Project outline: Introduction: what is Gov 2.0? What does "Open Government" mean? Government as a Platform "Gov 2.0: It's All About the Platform" (Tim O'Reilly, TechCrunch, September 4, 2009)Data and engagement are bi-directional: government to citizen, citizen to government (Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, November 11, 2009) The Four Facets of Web 2.0 in Government (Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, May 29, 2009)Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration.Institutional presence on external social networksOpen government dataEmployees on external social networks The characters A technocentric vision (Adobe): "Government agencies should consider the following with regard to making information about operations and decision-making available to the public: Can the public use it?
Normative backing for government accountability and citizen engagement From extenuation to denial Lack of information and motivation Project Scope Project Goals Constituents. Rheingold.com - Flock. Howard Rheingold (hrheingold) on Twitter - Flock... Smart Mobs - Flock.
Infotention Part Two: Building Information Dashboards - HowardRh. About this original series I stumbled into cyberspace a long time ago and have been a participant observer ever since . I write books and blogs and teach and speak . On my way to doing all that communicating, I seem to do a fair amount of hunting, gathering, and alchemy -- that is, transforming what I hunt and gather into something of value to someone else. In the olden days, I wrote about a slice of life in my virtual community , so now I am reslicing my life by trying to capture some of the intertwingled online and offline stuff via video.
Episodes of I couldn't resist sharing a quick look at the paradise where I am privileged to sit when I do my work. Remarkably generous with his time, considering that he was in the early stages of one of the most important social media platforms of the current era, Biz Stone spent time talking to my Social Media class at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2009 -- and went out to dinner with us afterward! Short clip from Attention 101. New digital divide.