Web 2.0 tools for government and industry and how they meld

The show notes from my appearance on the May 4th edition of Amtower Off Center.

Groups Mentioned
DC SPIN
DC XML Users Group
NCC AIIM

Amtower Off Center Blog
The Amtower Report, Volume 6, #18, November 5, 2007

Debbie Weil
Geoff Livingston
Dorobek Insider


David Meerman Scott’s The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
Malcolm Gladwell

LinkedIn
Some good LinkedIn groups for government contractors:
eGov
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Federal IT Group
The Document Imaging Group
Washington DC Area XML Users Group
IEEE
AIIM

Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes

Reggie Henry, Chief Technology Officer for ASAE & the Center for Association Leadership presents to DC Web Content Mavens

Mashable: Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For

BearingPoint: GovTwit Directory

The Air Force’s Rules of Engagement for Blogging

We Didn't Start the Flame War

Plaxo

Global PR Blog Week 1.0

B2B Magazine: InterAct keeps the conversation going through online initiatives
The Borenstein Group
IJIS Institute Public Safety Information Sharing

Mike Manuel: The Inefficiency of Social Media

Presto Vivace

The Federal Contractor Network
GovLoop
DC Technology Network

Online PR Thoughts

How to think of a wiki

In his interview on Federal News Radio, my client, Shahid Shah, described the wiki more succinctly than I have ever heard before:

...word processing document that multiple people can simultaneously edit without having to pass it from one person to another.

That is so simple, and so obvious, but I had never heard it put that way before and I will remember that for future use.

Shah went on to point out that the document stays in the same place, revision managed. In the case of the Budget Formulation Wiki there is an elaborate permission hierarchy that makes visible only those parts of the document the user is allowed to see.

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More from Behind the Curtain at TCG
Federal Financial Management News Web Log comments.

Congratulations Lurita Doan

Just received this from Federal News Radio:

Federal News Radio Continues To Grow Staff
Lurita Doan On Board as Analyst and Commentator


WASHINGTON, D.C. July 22, 2008 – Washington’s Federal News Radio WFED (1050 AM) has announced the addition of the Honorable Lurita Doan, the candid and controversial former Administrator of the General Services Administration, as a regular contributor of commentary and analysis. Her segment - “Leadership Matters” - will focus on leadership challenges facing the federal government. “Leadership Matters” will air every Tuesday morning at 7:28 a.m. beginning July 29.

Administrator Doan has been described as controversial, outspoken, a contrarian, a catalyst, a breath of fresh air, and an “inside Washington outsider.”

“Those characteristics make her a perfect fit for commentary and analysis on Federal News Radio,” says Program Director Lisa Wolfe. “Her insights on how the federal government operates and her opinions on how it should operate will be food for thought for the senior executive, political and contractor. You’ll be able to hear her commentary on the radio and also read her OP-EDs on the web at FederalNewsRadio.com.”

Doan served as the Administrator of GSA from May 2006 to April 2008. Prior to her Senate confirmation, Lurita worked for 15 years as the CEO of a surveillance technology company she founded in 1990. Administrator Doan has received numerous awards, including the prestigious, tri-national 2008 “Friend of the Americas.” Previous recipients include Secretary Tom Ridge and then Governor George Bush. Other honors include the National Women’s Business Council Award for Entrepreneurship, the Committee of 200 Luminary Award for Innovation in Technology, the Office Depot Entrepreneurial Visionary Award, the Visionary Award from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Network Journal’s 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business and Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business.

Quite a change of pace. I am glad to see that she landed on her feet.