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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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 [...]
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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