Category «Blogs»

Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview Document

Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Overview Document – A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise, Office of Management and Budget, February 26, 2009 [146 pages, PDF], “provides a description of the Obama Administration’s fiscal policies and major budgetary initiatives. This document is an overview of the full Fiscal Year 2010 Budget expected to be released …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Government Documents

Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating

“In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet

New Washington Post Site Profiles Obama Administration Officials, Members Eexecutive Branch and Congressmen

Washington Post site, a work in progess: WhoRunsGov.com offers a unique look at the world of Washington through its key players and personalities. It’s your window into how deals get made and policy is shaped in the new Obama administration that is remaking the nation’s capital.”

Subjects: Blogs, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

U.S. Air Force Leveraging Web 2.0 Apps – Twitter and Blogs

Via David Meerman Scott’s blog WebInkNow, news about forward thinking and actionable PR and IT business process improvement from the U.S. Air Force: “David Faggard, Chief of Emerging Technology at the Air Force Public Affairs Agency in the Pentagon [in response to a direct message via Twitter], indicated that “the Air Force employs 330,000 communicators! …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government

Papers Explore News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

“The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of innovative new media organizations have sprung up to take advantage of the opportunities that stem from low-cost distribution networks. Meanwhile the economic base of many of the large media companies continues to erode. Despite the demonstrated …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management

Obama Transition Project Staff Announces Transparency Policy

“Seat at the Table” Transparency Policy: “As an extension of the unprecedented ethics guidelines already in place for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, we take another significant step towards transparency of our efforts for the American people. Every day, we meet with organizations who present ideas for the Transition and the Administration, both orally and in …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

HHS' AIDS.gov to Use Blogs, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networks to Deliver HIV Information for World AIDS Day 2008

News release: “The HHS Office of HIV/AIDS Policy’s AIDS.gov will recognize the 20th annual World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with a special focus on reducing HIV/AIDS-related stigma and promoting HIV testing through blogs, virtual worlds, and social networks. This World AIDS Day will also mark the second anniversary of AIDS.gov, an online gateway to …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government