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Prizes to Promote Open Government

We've written previously about the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive. Among other things, the Directive has led to a proliferation of innovative "ideas sites" across the federal agencies.

Hackathons Aim to Improve Aid Distribution and Coordination in Haiti

Crisis camp
Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti.

Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti.

The Good News Story in Haiti

Obama sending his first "Tweet" at the American Red Cross
President Obama sends his first "tweet" for the Red Cross at their headquarters Monday.

Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem

Global Development CommonsWe've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki.

The Progress of Online Collaboration Tools, Sort of

In 1999, while reflecting on work we'd done for the US Environmental Protection Agency, some colleagues and I had an idea for a “project coordination web page” where project documents, a schedule, and staff contacts could easily be listed. Having worked with teams involving government workers plus private sector contractors, I thought this idea offered huge opportunity for efficiency increases, simply by creating a shared space which different members of the same team could all access easily.

Online courses (and collaboration) to save energy, money, and environment

Cars sitting in traffic

I've seen some recent news about the huge rise in enrollment in online college classes concurrent with the rise in gasoline prices. The articles report students saying that rising gas prices are a big concern in their deciding to seek online courses.

Social Networking in the Woods? New ConserveOnline launches.

The Nature Conservancy today launched a major overhaul of ConserveOnline, supporting knowledge-flow and coordination between “conservation practitioners” around the world. 

Ask Your Lawmaker, Web 2.0 Style

Ask Your Lawmaker

The US election season is in full swing ("are we there yet?" plead the kids...) and one of the more interesting related online political efforts is the "Ask your Lawmaker" service of Capitol News Connection (CNCNews). We worked with CNCNews in 2007 on the strategic planning for the new service, and we also did the information architecture. 

Online Community Strategies: Day 1 from the Online Community Business Forum

Santa Fe Online Community Business Forum

I'm at Forum One's second annual Online Community Business Forum this Monday and Tuesday. Our Bill Johnston and Jim Cashel have put together a great selection of smart speakers and attendees, an invitation-only gathering of about 70 people from community software businesses, media properties, investors, businesses using online community for customer service or building market presence, and others.

Global Development Commons / Document Freedom Day

Global Development Commons

We're pretty excited about the "Global Development Commons" concept that USAID's Administrator Henrietta Fore is recently promoting (see her video on this below). And an upcoming "Document Freedom Day" I think shows a key potential path to build the GDC with a focus on open standards. 

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