Social Government

Tomorrow (Jan. 11), the Open Government Directive Working Series, an inter-agency collaborative event at the Department of Transportation, will take place in Washington. The purpose of the series is to lead to a successful implementation of the Open Government Directive, and to develop momentum behind it. At the end of the working series, existing and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 CDC has been proactive in its use of social media to spread information about the Swine Flu outbreak.

How should the government use Twitter?

Facebook Pages create new potential for agencies on the Web.