Last Wednesday evening, I was honored to have been invited by Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop and co-founder of Young Government Leaders, to accompany him to the Fed 100 Awards. It was a nice evening that gave me the chance to meet several notable folks who are transforming government through their great work, such as: Keep Reading ->

Last Sunday and Monday, I presented two workshops at the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) 2009 Annual Conference – one entitled “Everything You Wanted to Know About Web 2.0″ and the other called “Generation Shift: The Emerging Federal Workforce.” Below are the slides from those sessions. Thank you to all who attended! Keep Reading ->

Below are the slides from the presentation that Ari Herzog and I delivered at the Advanced Learning Institute’s “Social Media for Government” conference in Washington, DC, on March 26. We walked participants through a process of solidifying their social media ideas, prioritizing them, establishing some metrics and creating an action plan that sets the foundation to gain stakeholder/champion buy-in and creates the initial framework for implementation. By the way, that’s my mom in the photo – she sent me the initial email that connected me to Ari through Chris Brogan: Keep Reading ->

Over the past weekend, I attended the American Society for Public Administration’s 2009 Annual Conference in Miami. I was invited to speak on two topics: Web 2.0/social media and the four generations in the workforce. In addition, I had the chance to attend two great sessions that really energized me. I tweeted the proceedings live. Rather than try to restructure my immediate thoughts here, it may be easier for readers to review the Twitter stream from hashtag #aspa09. Keep Reading ->

NOTE: This post is part of a series entitled Measuring Gov 2.0, But First Web 1.0 Analysis. You may also be interested in the first study in which I highlighted website measurement by the Brookings Institution. Keep Reading ->