4 reasons #40dollars resonated more with citizens on Twitter than #1000days
Yesterday, David Copeland reported at ReadWriteWeb that the GOP tried to replicate the success of the White House’s #40dollars social media campaign on Twitter with their own #1000days effort. As the...
View ArticleOpen Government News on Gov 2.0 TV: The Year in Review, SOPA and POTUS on...
On Thursday, I joined Edmonton-based social media consultant and digital strategist Walter Schwabe on “Gov 2.0 TV” to talk about what’s new in open government since our last interview. Over the course...
View ArticleVisualizing the size of the United States Code
Visualizing the size of the @USCode by title. 22 million words, about half are statutory notes, Title 42 is huge. #LDTC twitter.com/harlanyu/statu… — Harlan Yu (@harlanyu) February 2, 2012 The Office...
View ArticleA tale of 42 tweets: Highlights from my first Social Media Week in DC
Last week was “Social Media Week” here in DC. The week featured speakers, panels, workshops, events, and parties all across the District, celebrating tech and social media in the nation’s Capital,...
View ArticleA Conversation About Social Media, Open Government and eDemocracy [VIDEO]
If the town square now includes public discourse online, democratic governments in the 21st century are finding that part of civic life now includes listening there. Given what we’ve seen in this young...
View ArticleIs the Facebook “citizen cosponsor” app open government 2.0 or clever...
Yesterday, the Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VI) launched a new Facebook application, “Citizen Co-sponsor.” Rep. Cantor introduces it in the video below: Since its introduction, I’ve...
View ArticleSTUDY: On Twitter, Congressional Republicans lead on engagement, links and...
Data from a new study on the use of Twitter by U.S. Senator and Representatives by public relations giant Edelman strongly suggests that the Grand Old Party has opened up a grand old lead in its use of...
View ArticleWhat should be in a “Digital Citizen’s Bill of Rights?”
On Monday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OK) introduced a proposal for a “Digital Bill of Rights” at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. You can watch a video of their...
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POPVOX shares its Top 50 bills for the 112th Congress (#SOPA is #1)
Last week, the Library of Congress launched Congress.gov in beta, its vision of the next generation of THOMAS, the online repository of the nation’s legislative data. The site features a “most viewed...
View ArticleTechCrunch’s “CrunchGov” grades Congress on tech, pilots legislative...
In general, connecting more citizens with their legislators and create more resources for Congress to understand where their constituents and tech community stands on proposed legislation is a good...
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