SECTOR: PUBLIC

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — One year ago, I published a post on the O’Reilly Radar blog called “Government 2.0: Five Predictions for 2010-2012.” In the post, I described some “non-exhaustive, somewhat creative, and entirely debatable trends and ideas” that I thought might take shape in the coming years. Here, I revisit these five predictions ... Read more »

Sam Khoury (Minneapolis, MN) - In just a short time, the Internet has created huge economies of scale for information dissemination, affecting everything from how news spreads among bloggers, journalists, and average readers to how consumers compare sale prices among stores for their holiday shopping. The dark side of such information efficiency, however, is that global ... Read more »

Christopher Tucker (Washington, DC) — Over the past couple years, we have been watching the slow yet inevitable collision of the Open Government Initiative and the White House’s so-called Place Based Policy Initiative. While Government 2.0 has progressed quite far since William Eggers coined the term “Government 2.0″ in 2004, many of its most interesting examples ... Read more »

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) - If you work in the public sector, you now have a Digital IQ. There is no surer way to get people to talk about your research than to make a list ranking entities, categorize the list into easily-digestible names, and declare that yours is the definitive study on who’s hot and who’s ... Read more »

Chris Niehaus (Washington, DC) — It’s not quite the technology from Minority Report, but in some ways it’s even better (no gloves!): Microsoft recently launched a new entertainment product named Kinect for the popular Xbox 360 gaming platform. The launch involved the usual amount of fanfare you might expect, including a massive Times Square event ... Read more »

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) - Coming into my new role at Microsoft, I took on the task of reading more widely about business, communications, and other topics. I was very influenced by the new book Chief Culture Officer, written by Grant McCracken of MIT. It’s not about pop culture, and not about “cool hunting,” but rather ... Read more »