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My business partner and I were in meetings this week with a government agency dealing with sudden onslaught of "Gov 2.0." Deja Vu. It came full blast this week from the year 2008. We might as well have been in an episode of the TV show "Fear Factor" as at some points fear was the major chasm to be crossed in the room. Government 2.0 initiatives have been in full force since late 2009, early 2010. In 2008, however, the U.S. Government had not yet … Read More

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Brazil "BrasilGov2.0" Govcamp shows the Global Growth of Gov 2.0 and Open Government ]http://www.brasilgov2.com.br// Governments and the people they serve around the world are struggling to adapt to a new reality of real time information, demands for openness and transparency and more efficient service delivery. There is tremendous enthusiasm and interest in the utilization of social media, mobile and open data tools to remake the term "Governmen … Read More

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I have just been on 10 airplanes over the course of 11 days. I was in 7 different airports, each with stores, restaurants, etc. I have been in countless cabs and other forms of transportation between airports, meetings. All this frenzied travel had nothing whatsoever to do with customer service, nor was I pondering America as Service Economy. But it slammed home all by itself. It. What it? That if America has shifted from an economy of making thi … Read More

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via Gov 2.0 and Gov 3.0 Thoughts

India Govcamp shows the Global Growth of Gov 2.0 and Open Government http://gov2.in/ Governments and the people they serve around the world are struggling to adapt to a new reality of real time information, demands for openness and transparency and more efficient service delivery. There is tremendous enthusiasm and interest in the utilization of social media, mobile and open data tools to remake the term "Government" as we know it. Until recently … Read More

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There is a huge amount of news pouring out of the middle east right now. Oil prices are shooting up. The "stable" countries in the area are eyeing their "unstable" neighbors quite warily and there is tremendous unease in general. One of the by-products of the strife, conflict and chaos occurring in the Middle East has been a laser like focus on the role that social media has been playing in the drama unfolding daily in a new country, almost count … Read More

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Last weekend, I participated in the second annual Gov 2.0 LA event held in Santa Monica, CA.  This year's event happened literally on the beach at the Annenberg Community Beach House. This is the second year I have helped Alan W. Silberberg plan the event.  Both years have been great for very different reasons.  Last year was very much an experiment in terms of format and to see what kind of response we could get from the community.  The response … Read More

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