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US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook

“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
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The Power of Connecting

Smart Communities Connect, Share, and Drive from Data At the risk of making this post feel like an ad, I embedded “The Way We Work” above. The video clearly explains (from an enterprise perspective) the same theory of change we’re trying to advance from a community perspective – how connecting us to each and to [...]
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Roundup of Gov2.0 Summit Resources

Reinventing Our Government Sadly, we were not able to attend last month’s Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, DC. I did contribute the to “What does Gov2.0 mean to you?” video contest, with this, but I really liked Andrew’s (@Krazykriz), which I embedded above. However, thanks to social media, the community that did attend let us in [...]
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Revisiting Our Community Agility Ecosystem

What’s Community Agility? Two years ago – when we launched the Community Initiatives Team – agility was on ours minds. Pre-recession, we were hearing flat, but seeing spiky. Our team members live and work in regions as diverse as Portland (OR), Tucson (AZ), Charlotte (NC), and all over Michigan. So while the U.S. economy at [...]
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Agile Development as Model for Government Policy Making

Agile Policy Making? We were so excited to see Joi Ito’s post about agile development as a (potential) model for policy-making, we hardly know where to start. Maybe a thank you for Reid Hoffman’s perspective on early releasing – well timed as we are still wincing at the bugs in a recent launch of our [...]
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