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 »

Kristin Bockius (St. Louis, MO) — As the U.S. passes its one-year anniversary of the Open Government Directive, it’s a good time to reflect and think about how far things have come, but also to contemplate where they are going during the next year. Now that social media and government has largely moved past a ... Read more »

Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) — Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a massive move of its 120,000 employees to communications technology hosted in “the cloud,” the common term for Web-based services like email, instant messaging, and content management. This new initiative is part of a major consolidation of over 20 different email ... 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 »

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 »