Social Government

It’s the end of September…do you know where your Recovery funds are? If not, you can easily track them using the newly re-launched Recovery.gov. The site, which aims to track funds allocated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, now boasts interactive maps, detailed graphs and charts and an easy-to-use layout.

A notable feature [...]

Scribd, SlideShare and 19 other social media tools are featured on Apps.gov, the General Services Administration’s new government cloud computing Web site that launched today.
U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced the site, writing in a post on the White House Blog:
Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based [...]

In an attempt to get government agencies more involved on Facebook, the social network has launched a new page, Facebook and Government.
While the page is still new and largely devoid of content, it’s easy to see how this page could soon become a great resource for many agencies that use Facebook to communicate with citizens.
Could [...]

Unfortunately, we were unable to gain access to the Gov 2.0 Summit that’s going on in D.C. today and tomorrow.
Please check the Twitter hashtag #g2s for the latest!
If you’d like to contribute a report from the summit to the blog, let me know.
We hope to have in-depth coverage of future events.

NASA, an agency that understands Government 2.0 quite well, is hosting a tweetup at their Washington headquarters Sept. 24.
But it’s not just any tweetup: it’s an opportunity to meet the astronauts of STS-127, a shuttle mission this summer on Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.
Commander Mark Polansky is big on Twitter as @Astro_127. [...]

In the speech that President Obama is set to deliver tomorrow to America’s schoolchildren, a paragraph caught our attention:
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and [...]

This crossed my Twitter radar yesterday: a wiki of “Web 2 0 [sic] Governance Policies and Best Practices.”
This comprehensive wiki contains links to government social media best practices sites as well as blogging and commenting policy sites.
We’ve covered many of the sites mentioned there already, but there were some gems — especially the links to [...]

Today’s Washington Post has some astonishing news: the federal government will need to hire 270,000 people for “mission-critical” jobs over the next three years, according to a study released by the Partnership for Public Service today.
Powerful job search tools await prospective government applicants at USAJOBS, the Office of Personnel Management’s job portal.
In particular, you can [...]