Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category
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Everyone knows that locals are great to meet when visiting a new place. They are the ones who know their way around and can tell you the authentic and memorable places to visit. HospitalityClub.org is a good strategy to save yourself time and money by hooking you up with locals. The service allows you to find people all over the world willing to let other members stay the night, or receive a guided tour through their town.
WellSphere - local health and wellness resources, classes and activities, videos, news announcements, blogs, nutritionists offering advice, nearby fitness clubs, dance studios and support groups. The company hosts a public website for consumers at http://www.wellsphere.com and creates proprietary communities (such as BeWell@Stanford) for large organizations seeking to improve the health and well being of their members and reduce their healthcare costs.
from THE AGILE MIND BLOG, BY ANNE LAURENT
If you’ve ever wished your federal agency could adopt wikis, use YouTube or delve into the virtual world but feared the security, technology and political barriers were too high to overcome, take heart. You’ve got supporters, and they have success stories.
On May 8, the National Academy of Public Administration went live with its Collaboration Project Web site. The project, which began in February, “is an independent forum of leaders committed to leveraging the interactive Web and the benefits of collaborative technology to solve government’s complex problems,” it states.
Full story
from Bev Godwin, USA.gov and Web Best Practices, GSA Office of Citizen Services, March 3, 2008
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Examples |
Opportunity/Potential in Government |
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| Blogs | Journal or diary with social collaboration (comments) | GovGab.gov, 20 federal agencies,
USA.gov government blog library, Webcontent.gov |
Meaningful info delivered from a govt authority to new audiences. Puts human face on govt using informal tone. Opens public conversations | |||||||||||
| Wikis | Collaborative authoring & editing | GSA Collaborative Work Enviornment, NASA, US Courts, Intellipedia, US Foreign Svc, Utah Politicopia, Wikipedia | Workgroup or public collaboration for project management, knowledge sharing, public input. Contributions to 3rd party sites e.g. Wikipedia | |||||||||||
| Video Sharing (and Multimedia) | Videos, images, & audio libraries | USA.gov Multimedia library, NASA YouTube , Coast Guard, Virginia YouTube Channel, Americorps contest, Tobacco Free Florida contest | Public outreach, education, training, other communication for “connected” and on-line audiences. How To videos & audios to improve service and achieve mission. | |||||||||||
| Photo-Sharing | Photo libraries | USA.gov fed/state photo libraries, USGS internal photo gallery with Flickr API, EPA photo contest | Cost savings potential. New audiences. Awareness. | |||||||||||
| Podcasting | Multimedia content with an enclosure for syndicating via RSS for use on iPod TM, Mp3 players & computers | White House, NASA, USA.gov federal podcast library, Webcontent.gov, Peacecorps | More ways to get message out to “connected” and on-line audiences. How To messages. Use in emergencies. Live govt deliberations | |||||||||||
| Virtual Worlds | Simulations of environments & people
(Second Life, Active Worlds, Kaneva, ProtoSphere, Entropia Universe, uWorld) |
NASA, NOAA, CDC, Natl Guard, Dept of Energy, Real Life Govt in 2nd Life Google group, National Defense Univ Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds | Public outreach & other communication for niche Internet audiences. Virtual Town Halls, Education, Training. Ability to bring people together worldwide for meetings, lectures, etc. | |||||||||||
| Social Networking Sites | Connecting people globally | EPA Facebook group, NASA Colab, MySpace, Linkedin | Intranet use to cross internal agency stovepipes. Cross government coordination. Public communities. Viral impact. Knowledge mgmt. Recruitment. Event announcements. | |||||||||||
| Syndicated Web Feeds | Automated notifications
(think RSS) |
USA.gov Federal RSS Library,. NOAAWatch | Do more with RSS, XML/Web feeds. Expand reach. Pull content together across government. Authoritative source. Reduce duplication. | |||||||||||
| Mashups | Combine content from multiple sources for an integrated experience | USA Search, USGS, NASA, EPA, Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google maps | Lots of potential. Improved govt reach, service, usefulness, and functionality. Integrate external data. Get licenses, stay vendor neutral. Make content available to others who create mashups | |||||||||||
| Widgets, Gadgets, Pipes | Small applications & code in Web pages or for desktop use | FBI widgets, Veterans Affairs, Census Population Clock & NASA Planet Discoveries Desktop widgets | Increase awareness, use, and usefulness of .gov sites, information, and service. Bring content to the user’s home page (iGoogle, netvibes, etc) | |||||||||||
| Social News (Sharing, Tagging) Sites | Ways of sharing content with others | USA.gov, NASA, Govt blogs, Digg, Delicious Technorati .AddThis | Increase the popularity and use of .gov pages, information, and services. Viral marketing. | |||||||||||
| Micro-blogging | Form of blogging which allows brief (instant message size) text updates | Twitter, Jaiku, Cromple, Pownce, NASA Edge, USA.gov, GovGab, Univ of Mich | Seek input. Broadcast msgs: emergencies, news, | |||||||||||
Check out two cool new tools.
Graphwise is a data-specific search engine and visualization tool.
Iterasi is a social bookmarking tool for dynamic web pages.
app2you™ allows users to create their own, custom, hosted, interactive web applications. It doe not requires programming experience or knowledge of web technologies. Instead, users simply outline the pages of their application.
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This is a novel concept. Politweets is an extrapolation of the political comments on Twitter packaged into a self contained unit. This site is a good way to read the latest buzz as well as let off some steam about the latest political outrage. Perhaps even more useful because of its subject specific focus. You may not feel a need to twitter about what you are doing in general most of the time but twittering about your political opinion
seems like a natural fit especially in ‘08.