Archive for the ‘Government 2.0’ Category

WhiteHouse.gov goes open source with Drupal CMS

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If you haven’t heard or noticed, the White House Web site – www.whitehouse.gov – has switched from a proprietary back-end Content Management System (CMS) to an open source platform built using Drupal.

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Youth Activism Again Obesity – “Engaging teens when everything is against you”

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Sensis recently launched an innovative youth-targeted anti-obesity campaign entitled “We’re Fed Up.”
The campaign, sponsored by L.A. County Department of Public Health, was almost a year in the making, and forced our agency to rethink everything we thought we knew about advertising and cause marketing.
I just published an article for MediaPost’s EngageTeens column on the approach [...]

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Posted in Blogs, Emerging Media, Government 2.0, Guerilla / Viral Marketing, Social Marketing Online, Social Media, Social Networking, Youth Online | No Comments »

What does a $9 million Web site look like?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

So the much maligned Recovery.gov Web site went live on 9/28 to mostly positive reviews.
The new site provide a lot of information in very engaging formats, including an interactive map and variety of reporting tools on how the Recovery Act money is being spent. It’s also a clean, organized and highly usable Web site. Federal [...]

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The Sensis Take – 7/20 Edition

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online – From the Personal Democracy Forum Conference
Description: A talk at the Personal Democracy Forum conference on research into the social patterns of teenagers on online networks.  Dr. Danah Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for [...]

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“The White House Online Town Hall” or “Houses Fall Without Foundations”

Monday, July 6th, 2009

We at Sensis are all about social media.  We blog, we tweet, we are active participants in the real-time conversation that is taking place in Web 2.0.  We love how these tools have been used to facilitate democracy and the political discourse.   But there’s one thing you really need to know about Social Media and [...]

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Federal Government Social Network hits 10,000 members!

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

For all those people that complain that the Federal government doesn’t get Web 2.0 and social media, there are 10,000 Federal employees who would like to politely disagree. GovLoop.com describes itself as the “the premier online community for government employees.” Having reached the 10,000 member mark last week, the social network has gained traction and [...]

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Government 2.0 and Gov 2.0 Camp

Monday, April 13th, 2009

This is the first in a series of posts I plan to do on issues relating to Government 2.0. The first issue is to try to get an idea of what Gov 2.0 is.

On its most basic level, Gov 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 and social media tools by governments to improve their [...]

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