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Our blog is moving

In order to scale our blogging capabilities we are in progress moving the blog to a new location, Government in The Lab.  New content will be posted at the new destination and we will keep this location up and running for a long time to come.  We want to ensure that no content is lost as there [...]

PeerIndex, helping you understand your social capital

“PeerIndex helps you understand and benefit from your social and reputation capital online”, that is the claim made on the web site.  In my opinion PeerIndex does takes the broadest look at an individual by analyzing a person’s profiles on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and includes their blogs. While no formula is perfect, and PeerIndex, which is [...]

The Manchester Police Tweetfest

Ingrid provides an excellent update about the 24 hour tweetfest by the Manchester (UK) police force.  This information needs to become standardized and therefore sharable in much the same way that weather data is today.  We are seeing 311 and transit data becoming more and more standardized at the local level, to the benefit of everyone [...]

Citizen Engagement through IBM Jams

While the video dates back to July the concepts discussed in this video certainly still apply to all cities and towns across the world. I apologize for the IBM advertising aspects of this (I am not affiliated and make no money from it): Filed under: Gov20, Government 2.0 Tagged: gov20, IBM, innovation, Smarter Planet

7 Tips to Mastering Facebook Advertising

Facebook advertising can be a powerful tool for increasing sales as well as for growing membership in your Facebook fan pages (again, ultimately to grow revenue).  The author goes into good detail on these seven facts, read on through to explore in more detail: There are two primary destinations that can be advertised through Facebook [...]

Gubernatorial Candidate Chafee promises open government reform

My friend Sid Burgess wrote this excellent guest post about gubernatorial Candidate Lincoln Chafee’s recent comments about open government.  Sid does work with the team at SeeClickFix, so please keep this in mind as you read his post.  Since I have a great deal of respect for the SeeClickFix team, and Sid, I do not mind highlighting them as [...]

SocialMadeSimple, making social media easier for real estate professionals

While at a Tweetup last night in Cambridge I ran into the people behind SocialMadeSimple and had the opportunity to hear a bit about their solution.  This video, from their website, hits upon many of the key points. Those of us that work extensively with social media often forget that most people know little about how to blog, [...]

Android to Add Next 500M Mobile Web Users in India? (via GigaOM)

I continue to push the point that the Android phone will easily defeat the iPhone, in terms of overall market share, within the next 9 – 12 months.  Adding a half billion people in India would definitely go a long way, wouldn’t it, towards making this a reality.  Even if the iPhone comes to Verizon [...]

Are you a social media entrepreneur?

Great video, you can’t miss this one. Filed under: Random thoughts

PostRank Connect

I learned about PostRank Connect at the recent Monitoring Social Media conference in Boston and decided to give it a try as it meets my key criteria: It promises to provide me with insights about my content through the PostRank Analytics application (free, for now, when you sign-up for PostRank Connect). It promises to connect me with brands [...]