Archive for Government 2.0
NSA Phone Tracking and the Impact of the Digital Age on Personal Privacy
If you have tuned into any of the shout shows or news across the cable network board in the past couple weeks, you will have found no shortage of debates taking place among political pundits emphatically emitting their views. Some are crying it is a gross invasion of privacy, while others are contending it is an effective counter-terrorism tactic.
Category: Governance, Government 2.0, Policy & Guidelines, Privacy, Public Relations, The NSA PRISM Scandal, Yes /
Adobe Social’s Emi Hofmeister on the Future of Marketing
Adobe solutions are deeply rooted in a content perspective, because of the success of Creative Cloud, which includes products such as Photoshop or Premiere. The idea is then to marry content and data to better shape experiences for customers (or consumers).
Building an Open Source City
Jason Hibbets is an open source advocate, and the author of a book on building an open source city. An open source city is a place that applies the culture and philosophies of the open source movement. In the book, he outlines five characteristics that help to make a city ‘open source.’
Social Advocacy & Politics: No Jokes for Congress (Especially Not on Twitter)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH9) tweeted a joke from the White House Correspondents Dinner. But then she erased it 8 minutes later. What if more members of Congress could embrace the boldness of a funny tweet, without running away from it as if scared of their own shadow? We might see more real discussions among our elected officials as they work to solve our very real problems.
Category: Content, Engagement, Government 2.0, humor, Marcy Kaptur, members of congress, News, Opinion, Policy & Guidelines, Social Media, twitter /
Are Social Media Users Better Citizens?
A new study found that 40% of adults used social media as part of a political campaign during the 2012 presidential election. Interestingly, online engagement was largely found to have been done by the well-educated and affluent amongst us.
Social Advocacy & Politics: A Virtual Political Debate Via Twitter
Joe Kyrillos kept asking his opponent Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to debate him last summer, but Menendez wouldn’t do it. So when Menendez announced he was having an #AskMenendez Twitter town hall, Kyrillos, with the help of the Heritage Foundation Action Fund, announced he was going to use #AskMenendez to have a virtual debate.
Online Platforms for Social Change: A Paradigm Shift in Government
After the Prime Minister announced that DisabilityCare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), would be partially funded through an increase of 0.5% in the Medicare levy, the CEO of Myer, Bernie Brookes, was reported to have told a Macquarie Investment seminar that the levy was a bad idea.
Who Has the Right to Be Anonymous?
With the recent controversy over a bill to increase cyber security, called CISPA, businesses have the right to hand over your information to the government. This leaves your actions and privacy vulnerable to prying eyes, while businesses are free to share data. Is this fair?
Egypt: Social Networks for Democracy (and Marketing) [VIDEO]
Tarek Nasr is a man living between two massive social changes. As a citizen of Egypt he is living through the upheaval in the fledgling democracy founded in 2011. He is also Managing Director of Planet 360, a social media and digital strategy agency in Cairo. We spoke via Skype with him about the political role of social networks in Egypt today--and how his agency works with companies to market through social networks.
Category: community, Egypt, Events, Exclusive, facebook, google, Government 2.0, News, pinterest, Search, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Revolution, social networks /
Five Social Media Lessons From the US Ambassador to South Korea
The US ambassador to South Korea has been criticized for blogging about his vacation in the midst of a crisis. Business executives and government officials can learn a few things about social media from the ambassador's mistakes.
