[caption id="attachment_1090" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="Gov 2.0 L.A. Hybrid Un-conference"][/caption] As the 3rd annual Gov 2.0 L.A. (Gov20LA) approaches on April 21, 2012; I have been thinking a lot about why I started this conference and what it means for yRead More....

We have some exciting news to share. Gov 2.0 LA will be shifting the Gov20LA event venue to Pepperdine University in Malibu, California for theRead More....

The third Gov20LA is coming up soon. In fact in On April 21 of 2012 at the same location as this year. As we have in the last Read More....

Change is here. It is happening everywhere. I have been fortunate in the last few months to speak and also do a tremendous amount of listening and asking pertinent questions of minister level officials in 5 national capitals, on 4 continents. The pace of change in government use and implemenRead More....

    Why Social Media Fails Sometimes – Somalia in point. Horrifying: 29,000 children under the age of 5 dead in the last 90 days alone in Somalia.  29,000 Children, who most of us using social media have heard little about. Why is it that social medRead More....

We are rushing into a world of social awareness, social politics, and social media entering almost any facet of our lives. But there is no gatekeeper yet. The lack of gatekeepers is enabling fake social media accounts to be set up, maintained and used in ways from just annoying, to truly daRead More....

Governments and the people they serve around the world are struggling to adapt to a new reality of real time information, demands for openness and transparency and more efficient service delivery. There is tremendous enthusiasm and interest in the utilization of social media, mobile and open data tools to remake the term "Government" as we know it. Brazil "Brasil Gov2.0" Govcamp shows the Global Growth of Gov 2.0 and Open Government Read More....

Politics seems to be in everything now. Whether it is your home loan, your school loan; even your reproductive rights or the right to bear arms. Believe it or not, it is now in Gov 2.0 and transparency in Government. The United States is faced with an extra-ordinary amount of budgetary debt. The recent wrangling over the Read More....

As a longtime proponent of the need to break down citizen engagement with our governments into simple to understand segments, I am thrilled by the recent conversations again about the importance of People and language. It is something the planners of Read More....

The last few weeks have seen announcements about the Country of North Korea establishing a footprint on various social media channels. Then today, the North Korea Government tells the media, no they are Read More....