Medical Openness in Social Media

As social networking sites and technologies have flourished over the last few years, there has been much discussion about privacy today.  It is not that uncommon for people to provide updates about their personal lives on their Facebook accounts or Twitter feeds.  They talk about if they are sick, have a crush on somebody,...

Federal Government and Social Media

It is day two of the O’Reilly Gov 2.0 Summit, and I had an interesting conversation at lunch with a person who works in a well known US federal agency.  I’m not going to share this person’s name or agency since I don’t want this person to get unwanted attention....

Web Collaboration Requires Trust and Surprise

I attended the O’Reilly Gov 2.0 Summit today and enjoyed listening to many of the insightful speakers.  One of them was Clay Shirky; who is popular on the tech conference circuit.

He talked about how organizations have tried to harness their community members to use the data and services that they provide turning them to them to the public to develop applications and new uses for their services. ...

DC Government Apps Store

Was opened last night in time for the O’Reilly Gov 2.0 summit and expo here in DC.  The apps store has both web-based and mobile phone applications.  One that caught my eye is the Are You Safe? Washington, DC, iPhone application.  Kind of  like walking around the city with a Geiger counter for safety....

Four Tools for Managing Twitter Followers

I’m not sure why Twitter makes it difficult to manage followers within their own site, but fortunately there are several 3rd party options available. I’ve been playing around with these applications, and a lot are a waste of time in my opinion.

However, the ones below, are the few that I found to be useful and that actually work....