What is the impact in the Internet age when the lines of traditional structures of communication, authority, or chain of command and policy making procedures become horizontal and non-sequential?

I believe Gov 2.0 can be divided into two tracks: technology and citizen adoption. I don’t think you can advance Gov 2.0 without addressing both concurrently.

Ever hear the news anchor or a reporter state at the end of their story: “If you’d like to know more about (story subject), please visit our Web site.”?  While I can appreciate the need to attract eyes to their web site to help sell advertisers, these news outlets may be providing a disservice to [...]

There are some great “year-end” blog posts and articles reviewing e-Gov, or government via the Internet.  This year, it is mostly about Gov 2.0 — stories or benchmarks for expanding collaborative technologies of Web 2.0 across the public sector.     All of these articles come from practitioners, intended for reading/discussion among other practitioners.  What’s missing? How [...]

Florida Justice Summit brings together traditional methods and new technology to create and build an online community I had the pleasure to attend the first Florida Justice Summit on Monday/Tuesday (11/16-17) in Tampa.  The summit was hosted by the Collins Center for Public Policy.  The Collins Center is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that finds [...]

There is some exciting news occurring today in the world of Gov 2.0.  If you haven’t read one of the hundreds of online outlets or caught one of the hundreds of “tweets” about what’s occurring, two Gov 2.0 service providers, GovLoop and GovDelivery are joining forces to compliment their Web and collaboration service delivery to [...]

My idea is that it’s all about connectivity –the connection between government and its citizens, and the benefits that arise from that.

NOTE:  In my 3 August post, I outlined 11 questions consistently raised by individuals and groups of government agencies and non-profit organizations relating to adopting Web 2.0 strategies and practices into their internal and external relationships.  I want to briefly address them in my Blog throughout August.  Q #1: What business model should I use? [...]

A New Look at Govt-Citizen Collaboration using Social Media (Part II)   I’ve learned a new lesson about blogging: never post “Part 1″ until you have written “Part 2.”  I meant to write this entry right after I posted the first part, but had to travel, complete project deliverables, watch college basketball tournaments (men and [...]

A New Look of Govt-Citizen Collaboration using Social Media (Part 1)   I recently read an interesting post on techPresident.com called “Government Needs Smart-sourcing, Not Crowdsourcing,” by Pete Peterson, executive director of Common Sense California.  Pete’s post focused on the quality of the government-citizen (G-C) engagement and the impact large numbers of participants have on [...]