Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

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October 6, 2008 - 10:02 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau

This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” These words are no less true today, over [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on October 2, 2008

In the buildup to this election season’s presidential debates, we’ve seen a number of services launch that aim to enhance the viewers’ experience (and hopefully keep them informed). During tonight’s highly anticipated Vice Presidential debate we put a few of them in the test.
Twitter’s Election Homepage:
It sounds like a [...]

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By C.G. Lynch, CIO.com, IDG
Published: October 1, 2008

Socialtext, a Web 2.0 vendor that has sold social software (primarily wikis) to businesses for internal collaboration and knowledge management, officially launched Socialtext People (enterprise social networking profiles) and Socialtext Signals, an application that allows business users to share short messages (in 140 characters or less) [...]

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By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service\New York Bureau, IDG
Published: October 1, 2008

A New York-based startup called ZocDoc that provides people with a way to schedule health-care appointments online got some backing from two industry heavy-hitters Wednesday Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezosand Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff.
ZocDoc did not disclose the exact amount it is receiving from Bezos and Benioff, [...]

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October 1, 2008 - 9:06 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau 
This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.
Recently I had the chance to attend an event called “Government 2.0 and Beyond… Harnessing Collective Intelligence,” which was hosted by [...]

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By SEWELL CHAN
Published: September 23, 2008
A number of public officials and the founders of Google assembled at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday to announce the start of New York’s version of Google Transit, an online feature that they said would transform the experience of navigating New York City’s transit system, the [...]

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This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.
Future planning is a big part of what the national security apparatus of the United States does, and it is incredibly difficult to do well. As the national security writer William [...]

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By Claire Cain Miller
How many more new social networking or micro-blogging or video-sharing site can one person use? Most of us don’t have time to respond to voice mail and e-mail every day, let alone check our Twitter updates and Facebook accounts and Flickr friends. And even if we [...]

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Web 2.0 is part of the shift away from the dominance of the elite to the innovation of the collective.
Social media is just that—social. Blogging, wikis, rating and voting systems are based on the idea that there is value outside the traditional channels of power.
Web 2.0 and social media mean that for teachers [...]

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Why should I read this humongous reference guide? PR 2.0 is here to stay. That’s why we care and why we won’t let go. SHIFT wants to be ahead of the game and participate in the future, not lag behind. That’s why we hope you’ll get excited – like some of us. No, we [...]