Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Wow. Things are happening in a much more rapid time frame now than they used to. I am not just talking about Moore's Law for technophiles. But life as we know it is increasingly becoming, rapid. In every
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Tags: Alan W. Silberberg, Citizen 2.0, Digital Divide, Facebook, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Advisor, Gov 2.0 LA, Gov 3.0, Gov Tech, Gov20LA, Los Angeles, Mobile, Social Media, Twitter, United States
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Once a year. That is right. Once a year I open my business a bit more to offer my services at a discounted rate for a limited time. From now through January 15, 2013; I will offer a 25% discount of all the digital, social, tactical and strategic offerings of my company.
Typically we help
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
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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 y
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Posted in Alan W. Silberberg, Citizen Engagement, Economy, Election 2012, Emergency Social Media, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 LA, Gov20., Partnerships, Politics, Silberberg's Gov2.0 Blog, Social Media | 11 Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2012

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 the
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Tags: Alan W. Silberberg, Citizen 2.0, Democracy, Digital Divide, Election 012, Engagement, Facebook, Google, Gov, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Analyst, Gov 2.0 Innovation, Gov 2.0 LA, Gov 2.0 TV, Gov 2.0 Videos, Gov 3.0, Gov20LA, Government, Government 2.0, Livestream, Los Angeles, Mobile, Online, OpenGov, Participatory Democracy, Pepperdine University, Politics, Semantic Web, Social Media, TV, Twitter, You 2.0
Posted in Alan W. Silberberg, Citizen Engagement, Customer Service, Economy, Election 2012, Emergency Social Media, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Analyst, Gov 2.0 LA, Gov 2.0 Video, Gov2, Gov20., Govcamp, Partnerships, Politics, Silberberg's Gov2.0 Blog, Social Media | 8 Comments »
Monday, January 16th, 2012

Election 2012 was either supposed to be about someone beating Obama or Obama beating someone. That part of the story is still being told. However the sub-story of election 2012 is not which GOP candidate got a "surge". Surge. That word; each time I heard the word "surge" I looked at my surge
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Tags: Alan W. Silberberg, Barack Obama, Citizen 2.0, Facebook, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Innovation, Gov 3.0, Gov2, Gov20, LA Times, Mitt Romney, Mobile, Mobile Gov 2.0, Ron Paul, Semantic Web, Social Media, Twitter, Washington Post
Posted in Alan W. Silberberg, Citizen Engagement, Election 2012, Gov 2.0, Gov Tech, Gov20., Politics, Silberberg's Gov2.0 Blog, Social Media | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

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
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011

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 implemen
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Anna Hazare. The name sounds like an exotic woman; maybe the name of some foreign thriller in the movie house. But it is actually a man, who may be at the center of one of the largest citizen movements in recorded his
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Tags: Alan W. Silberberg, Anna Hazare, Anti-Corruption, Citizen 2.0, Delhi, Facebook, Gov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Analyst, Government 2.0, India, Internet, Janlokpal, Mahatmas Gandhi, Mobile, Non Violent Demonstration, Oldest Social Media, Pakistan, SMS, Social Media, Twitter, Word of Mouth, You 2.0, Youtube
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011

This past week we saw the first real hint of the power of social media when combined with election politics. CNN ran a high energy media campaign around the social media tools it deployed during the Debate on June 13, 2011. It was cool they were using Twitter as a
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Tags: CNNDebate, Election 2012, Election Technology, Facebook, Mobile, Politics, President Barack Obama, Social Media for Politics, Twitter
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