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Here's Your Chance to Shine: Government 2.0 Expo and Showcase.

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Have you changed the culture of your organization from one that hoards information to one that openly shares and collaborates with each other? The event will highlight the projects exhibiting transparency, participation and collaboration in government. Development Have you done something to help usher in the era of Government 2.0

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

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or social media—it is about the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent. Open government doesn’t start or end with social media – it starts with a mindset that you want to become more participatory, collaborative, and transparent.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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While it’s garnered a lot of publicity , won awards , and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, I get asked this question and others like it (e.g., These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration.

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wordpress Resources at siteground

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It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. I will add you to my blogroll! I will add you to my blogroll! I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Lookin good.

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What Kind of Impact Has Social Media Had on Your Organization?

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.&# Now, at this point, I’m usually fighting an internal battle between jamming a pencil in my eye or resisting the urge to shake the executives and yell, “why don’t you understand the benefits of open collaboration and communication??!!!&# How do you measure the value of open collaboration?

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My Gov 2.0 Heroes

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community, the people who have helped me in my career, the people who made me believe that openness, transparency, and collaboration in government could be a reality. It happened because some passionate people truly believed that openness, transparency, sharing, and collaboration would truly help improve them do their jobs better.

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Will I See You at the Gov 2.0 Expo?

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Pacific Command’s All-Partners Access Network (APAN), Booz Allen has long advocated the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration with all of our clients. From our work with the Military Health System to U.S. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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