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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

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." - Clay Shirky at TED Cannes in June 2010. Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. If, however, someone criticizes the report you've spent weeks writing, that's a little more intimidating.

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Government Use of Social Media - "In Addition to," Not "In Lieu of.

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Development Social Media Government Use of Social Media – “In Addition to,&# Not “In Lieu of&# Tue, Apr 27, 2010 Government 2.0 Download the full report Pew Internet released their “Government Online&# report today, and it’s chock FULL of great statistics. Powered by Wordpress.

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Why Implementing the Plain Writing Act Will Take Decades

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This memo comes six months after the Plain Writing Act of 2010 was signed into law, 13 years after President Clinton issued his “ Plain Language in Government Writing &# memorandum, and more than 40 years since President Nixon ordered that the “Federal Register&# be written in “layman’s terms.&#.

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Do You Have What it Takes to Change Government and Create Gov 2.0?

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The 2010 Gov 2.0 Download the full report. As I’ve said many times before, Government 2.0 isn’t about technology, but what that technology enables. When the GSA implements the Better Buy Project , getting UserVoice up and running was probably one of the easiest tasks on the whole project.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

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Fri, Aug 27, 2010 Government 2.0 , Social Media Do the top developers for Google’s Android operating system use Blackberries? The IT manager needs to say things like, “I want weekly status reports from you… but, don’t dare send them to me via email, but as a blog post on the system you’re developing.&#

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What Does Government 2.0 Mean to Me?

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For example, someone will come in and deliver a talk on getting rid of fear-based systems based on writing people up and reporting and instead go to best-practices, such as doing better casework out in the field. When you do that, the admin reports will come in line. When you do that, the admin reports will come in line.

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Reverse Mentoring is All About Screwing in the Lightbulb before.

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Development Social Media Reverse Mentoring is All About Screwing in the Lightbulb before Flipping the Switch Wed, May 12, 2010 Best Practices , Personal The following is a guest post by Shala Byers. web20 wiki Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org © 2010 Social Media Strategery. Government 2.0

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