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 [...]
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 [...]
It looks like Bev Godwin and company over at the General Services Administration actually are embarrassed by what Webcontent.gov says about social media. The GSA posted a solicitation on FedBizOpps.gov Feb. 9 for a $2.5 million contract to conduct a “Citizen Engagement Survey.” One of the objectives of the survey is quite interesting: …Do citizens [...]
The ever-popular Gov Gab blog from our friends at the General Services Administration was very active in the month of January, due in large part to President Obama’s inauguration. Seven posts out of 33 for the month were tagged with “inauguration.” Other popular tags dealt with the salmonella peanut scare, government resources for kids on [...]
On a recent Internet-wide trek for information about the federal government’s use of social networking tools, I stumbled across this page on Webcontent.gov. The page, written by USA.gov Director Bev Godwin, stated the following as one of a few “examples of government using social networks:” “Many government agency networks and groups have sprung up on [...]
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