by Andrea Di Maio | December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’d like to share a personal experience that can be exemplary of the type of real or perceived conflicts between personal and professional role on social media. As I have always said, real and productive engagement on social media require people to be themselves and not just spokespersons of their employer (there are colleagues who [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
This is my 500th post, and a good occasion to write something different. As I do cover government 2.0 and social media, I feel it is fair to share with people a few personal experiences that, I hope, can give a sense of how these tools can transform our professional and personal life. Readers are [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Facebook, Flickr, social networks, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | October 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
In a previous post I raised, amongst others, the issue of authenticity and quality of open government data. Yesterday, this came up in an interview appeared on the O’Reilly Radar, to Raymond Mosley, Director of the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and Michael L. Wash, CIO of the Government Printing Office (GPO). The actual [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | September 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
I have just published a Research Note on gartner.com (subscription required) with this same title, to summarize many of the client conversations I am having about whether and how to provide employees with access to public social networks. This is a topic I have touched upon a few times in this blog, but I felt [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: code of conduct, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | July 16, 2009 | 9 Comments
Last October, I posted about the theme I have been researching over the last two years, i.e. “The Future of Government is No Government” (see also Gartner research note, subscription required) Now some of the highlights of that research, which I have discussed in multiple posts, are available in an article just published on Governing: [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: future of government, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | July 15, 2009 | 5 Comments
Earlier today I had a very interesting conversation with an executive from a local government about their digital society initiatives. These include the development of broadband infrastructure to provide Internet access to residents, and the development of a number of web applications to visualize information about traffic or real estate use as well as to [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: local government, mashup, portal, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | July 3, 2009 | 11 Comments
By now I think many agree that the evolution of e-government (and in particular the electronic delivery of information and services to various stakeholders) will follow a “government 2.0” path. While I really hate the term “government 2.0”, it is effective at summarizing the use of web 2.0 technologies that will have a transformational impact [...]
Category: Uncategorized web 2.0 in government Tags: citizen portal, cloud computing, crowdsourcing, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | May 29, 2009 | 15 Comments
Over the last week or so I’ve had a number of clients asking me to summarize the impact of Web 2.0 in government. I’ve come up with four different but interrelated areas: Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks Internal government collaboration. This [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: open government data, social networks, web 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | May 22, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yesterday the Obama administration took important steps toward open government. The first one was the announcement of how the citizen engagement process in policy-making will work. As explained on the White House Open Government Blog: “…Beginning today, we will have a brainstorming session for suggesting ideas for the open government recommendations. You can vote on [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: open government, social networks, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | May 16, 2009 | 5 Comments
In a recent post I mentioned a White House Document issued together with FY 2010 budget request, which covers – amongst other things – cloud computing. An entire section of that document refers to “Government 2.0”. I believe this is one of the first times (if not the first) that this term appears in an [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social networks
