FCC Wants Political Ads Disclosed On Web
Local television stations make big bank during election seasons running political ads. Used to be, you could count on ads from the opponents themselves. Nowadays, in a world where money equals protected free speech, many other concerns have an axe to grind on the airwaves. That leads to even more revenue for televisions stations as they run ads paid for by third parties and “SuperPACs”. Read More…
The VA And Joining Forces Use Technology To Help Homeless Veterans
It’s beyond debate that homelessness is a pandemic problem across the world. Of the more than 636,000 adults that were homeless last year in the United States, over 67,000 of them were veterans. Great reward for serving your country, right? Read More…
The Link Between Stock Market Performance And Election Results
Many studies in the past have tried to find a link or commonality as to why a President is elected. A lot of them have tried to use three main things, economic growth, inflation, and unemployment. A recent study came out that looked at elections of incumbents from the last 200 years and seems to have found a link between stock market performance and election results.
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How Social Media is Changing the 2012 Elections
There are plenty of ways you can use social media to follow the long march from the Iowa Caucus to the November Elections. Several sites, including Instagram and Tumblr, are being used by candidates for the first time to engage and inform citizens. Read More…
Open Source Government As A Platform
I’m a firm believer in the concept of Government as a platform and indeed it seems that the idea is much closer to being an accepted reality, even more so recently with the announcement via the Whitehouse blog of the US Government’s Open Government platform and an open source initiative – think data-government in a box. As part of President Obama’s announcement The President also unveiled the U.S. National Action Plan on Open Government, which detailed steps the United States will take to help meet the initiative’s goals. Read More…
Why Is Google Even Involved In The Yahoo! Acquisition Talks?
There’s been numerous news reports about Google considering “buying” Yahoo!, or at least teaming up with private equity companies to do so.
While most of the articles at least mention in passing that it’d be unlikely for this to pass government review, I haven’t seen many people actually discuss why Google is involved.
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How Technology Is Impacting Government And Other Management Areas
We’ve tossed around a lot of ideas on {grow} about how technology is impacting our lives, but I’m also really interested in how it is impacting the culture of our companies. Read More…
Update on the Migration of Geodata.gov to Data.gov
The team at Geodata.gov has announced that the migration to Data.gov is well underway and will officially take effect on September 30, 2011, at that time all traffic hitting geodata.gov will be automatically redirected to the new home at Data.gov. According to Geodata.gov, “This starts another exciting new chapter in Open Government, and the evolution to make government data more accessible and usable than before.” Read More…
IBM Enables Cloud-based Social Business for Government
IBM introduced a new set of social collaboration offerings on the IBM Federal Community Cloud. The services include the industry’s broadest capabilities for social software such as wikis, micro-blogs, staff profiles, instant messaging, web conferencing, messaging and collaboration, and email. It also includes support for popular mobile devices including Android phones and tablets, Apple iPhone 4 and iPad, BlackBerry, and Nokia Symbian platform.