Social Government

Without a doubt, lots of (read: unprecedented) progress was made in the government 2.0 world in 2009. We saw the first federal CIO and CTOs appointed, the launch of Apps.gov and even the White House embracing the open source Drupal content management system for their Web site.
At this pace, 2010 will be an even better [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After a long week of finals, I’m pleased to say that the blog is back in business.
Seems like we chose the wrong week to take off, since government got a lot more social since the last post here:

The White House started tweeting!
The White House, along with about 30 federal agencies (according to Time) also joined [...]

The State Department will hold a digital town hall on Friday.

An interview with USCG Lt. Cdr. Tony Russell, the press secretary to Commandant Thad Allen. Russell spoke about the Coast Guard Commandant’s office’s success with Social Media.

The General Services Administration recently announced that many legal boundaries that once prevented federal agencies from using new media have now been resolved with several Web 2.0 sites, clearing the path for a more social government. The GSA said this was done to answer the President’s call for greater citizen involvement in government and in [...]