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Gov 2.0 Radio: Reno.gov Web Manager Kristy Fifelski
Kristy Fifelski of GovGirl.com and Reno.gov joins us on Gov 2.0 Radio to discuss Reno's planned inaugural civic hackathon, her GovGirl video series, the upcoming National Association of Government Webmasters conference and the new NV.gov.
Time for government to plug into one platform?
In a new blog post, Gartner's Andrea Di Maio asks if it's time to pull the plug on government Websites?
Second Summer of Smart hackathon tackles buildings, transportation and sustainability
Building data. It’s a small thing, but what if the buildings where we live, work and play were able to show us how they work?
The Road ahead for Open Baltimore
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the state of the open data program in the city of Baltimore.
AchieveCity to offer municipalities free, open source government platforms
Firmstep has launched a new service called AchieveCity, a Web-based government platform powered by the Drupal distribution OpenPublic (developed by Phase2 Technology) and hosted in the Amazon EC2 environment.
USDOT in the social media slow lane
The U.S. Department of Transportation is officially nowhere to be found in social media circles, but DOT Secretary Ray LaHood is everywhere, including Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.