Weekly Round-up: November 5, 2010
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Gadi Ben-Yehuda
- FedSpace, the social media site for federal employees and contractors, is running a pilot program, reports Federal Computer Week.
- Adam Sharp will be Twitter's first DC-based employee. As promised, I say: welcome to the party, but don’t get comfortable. Here are five things I’d like to see Twitter do to make itself more useful to government, and more useful to citizens.
- Facebook published data on its voting application. Could there be implications for governing? At the very least, I think it proves that people whose town wins a major sporting event might be primed for some Citizen 2.0 activities.
John Kamensky
- Unions: Start Telework! Top government unions tell the government to stop talking and start telework. IBM Executive Chuck Prow blogs that IBM has saved millions via its telework initiative and increased productivity and employee satisfaction.
- Jumpstarting Agency Customer Service Efforts. GAO released a report, “Managing for Results: Opportunities to Strengthen Agencies’ Customer Service Efforts,” assessing the federal government’s customer service initiatives to date. The report offers recommendations for OMB and agency actions.
- Zients Report Card. OMB acting director Jeff Zients spoke at Government Executive’s Excellence in Government conference last year and laid out a six-point agenda. It was reprised in a memo to all Senior Executives back in September. At this year’s conference, he reported back the progress on each element of his agenda, which is now called the “Accountable Government Initiative.”
Dan Chenok
Business of Government Radio Show: Clarence Carter
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