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In July, following its Open Government & Innovations (OGI) Conference in Washington, D.C., Falls Church, Va.-based 1105 Government Information Group wanted to keep the event's momentum going. The event had been tweeted about 4,423 times, making the conference's hashtag, "#ogi," the No. 4 trending topic on Twitter during the event. So, 1105 decided to create a "TweetBook"—a compilation (in PDF format) of all the tweets—which conference attendees could download from the OGI Web site after the event. - Andrew Krzmarzick

In July, following its Open Government & Innovations (OGI) Conference in Washington, D.C., Falls Church, Va.-based 1105 Government Information Group wanted to keep the event's momentum going. The event had been tweeted about 4,423 times, making the conference's hashtag, "#ogi," the No. 4 trending topic on Twitter during the event. So, 1105 decided to create a "TweetBook"—a compilation (in PDF format) of all the tweets—which conference attendees could download from the OGI Web site after the event. - Andrew Krzmarzick

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it can sometimes seem, customer communities often sprout up on the initiative of passionate customers. Successful examples of this include XMFan around XM Radio, HDTalking for Harley-Davidson, and IKEAFANS on IKEA products. - Andrew Krzmarzick

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it can sometimes seem, customer communities often sprout up on the initiative of passionate customers. Successful examples of this include XMFan around XM Radio, HDTalking for Harley-Davidson, and IKEAFANS on IKEA products. - Andrew Krzmarzick

It’s not a skill that’s been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of discussions about enterprise social computing as the use of social tools begins to climb the maturity curve. Now community management is increasingly proving not just useful but a critical component of Enterprise 2.0 efforts despite an often vague understanding of what it is and where it should be situated in the org chart. - Andrew Krzmarzick

It’s not a skill that’s been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of discussions about enterprise social computing as the use of social tools begins to climb the maturity curve. Now community management is increasingly proving not just useful but a critical component of Enterprise 2.0 efforts despite an often vague understanding of what it is and where it should be situated in the org chart. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Even Sean Dennehy, whose title is evangelist for the intelligence community's widely lauded collaboration Web site Intellipedia, was initially skeptical. "Cal Andrus spoke to a technology advisory group that I was a part of about wikis and blogs, and we all said, 'This guy is crazy,' " Dennehy recalls. Andrus, who worked in the application services office at the CIA, had won the intelligence community's Galileo Award in 2004 for his white paper on using the Internet to boost information sharing. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Even Sean Dennehy, whose title is evangelist for the intelligence community's widely lauded collaboration Web site Intellipedia, was initially skeptical. "Cal Andrus spoke to a technology advisory group that I was a part of about wikis and blogs, and we all said, 'This guy is crazy,' " Dennehy recalls. Andrus, who worked in the application services office at the CIA, had won the intelligence community's Galileo Award in 2004 for his white paper on using the Internet to boost information sharing. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Here's something that everyone doing business on the web knows today, thanks to Chris Anderson: it's all about the long tail. When the cost of each individual transaction falls to nearly zero, marginal and low-performing items, grouped together, can account for a lot more of the overall value of a company than the top-performing ones. Amazon.com makes more money from the aggregate of all of the books that sell one or two copies a month than from sales of best sellers. And Amazon is a much stronger, healthier, and richer company because of the extremely long tail of books it sells. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Here's something that everyone doing business on the web knows today, thanks to Chris Anderson: it's all about the long tail. When the cost of each individual transaction falls to nearly zero, marginal and low-performing items, grouped together, can account for a lot more of the overall value of a company than the top-performing ones. Amazon.com makes more money from the aggregate of... more... - Andrew Krzmarzick

Here's something that everyone doing business on the web knows today, thanks to Chris Anderson: it's all about the long tail. When the cost of each individual transaction falls to nearly zero, marginal and low-performing items, grouped together, can account for a lot more of the overall value of a company than the top-performing ones. Amazon.com makes more money from the aggregate of all of the books that sell one or two copies a month than from sales of best sellers. And Amazon is a much stronger, healthier, and richer company because of the extremely long tail of books it sells. - Andrew Krzmarzick

GSA's Dave McClure said agencies will devise metrics based on input from ground-level workers. The forthcoming open government directive will dictate that each agency come up with a process for measuring the outcomes of transparency efforts, a top General Services Administration official said on Monday. The White House as soon as two weeks from now will issue a directive based on recommendations developed by the federal chief technology officer in concert with GSA and the Office of Management and Budget. President Obama during his first day in office instructed these entities to compose guidance that would direct agencies on how to establish a collaborative, participatory and transparent government using new technologies. - Andrew Krzmarzick

GSA's Dave McClure said agencies will devise metrics based on input from ground-level workers. The forthcoming open government directive will dictate that each agency come up with a process for measuring the outcomes of transparency efforts, a top General Services Administration official said on Monday. The White House as soon as two weeks from now will issue a directive based on recommendations developed by the federal chief technology officer in concert with GSA and the Office of Management and Budget. President Obama during his first day in office instructed these entities to compose guidance that would direct agencies on how to establish a collaborative, participatory and transparent government using new technologies. - Andrew Krzmarzick

NEW DELHI - Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even blogs will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday. “For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools, modern web-based social networking tools will be used to spread knowledge of road safety,” K.K. Kapila, vice chairman of the International Road Federation (IRF), said in a statement. We have developed videos on safe driving and other aspects of road safety. We plan to put them up on YouTube to cater to the growing number of people whose first choice to find information is to go online, Kapila added. - Andrew Krzmarzick

NEW DELHI - Social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even blogs will be made use of by the Indian government to spread the message of safe driving, transport officials said Monday. “For generating mass awareness about road safety, apart from using traditional media tools, modern web-based social networking tools will be used to spread knowledge of road safety,” K.K. Kapila, vice chairman of the International Road Federation (IRF), said in a statement. We have developed videos on safe driving and other aspects of road safety. We plan to put them up on YouTube to cater to the growing number of people whose first choice to find information is to go online, Kapila added. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Awesome traffic mash-up, including bike paths, parking spaces, incidents, traffic lights and more... - Andrew Krzmarzick

Awesome traffic mash-up, including bike paths, parking spaces, incidents, traffic lights and more... - Andrew Krzmarzick

A guest post on Wired.com by Heather West of the Center for Democracy and Technology tackles whether online privacy is a generational issue. Recent studies, including one on behavioral advertising, show that those in younger age groups care most about how their information is used, and many teens and young adults have now come to expect a high level of control over their personal information. Those expectations of control over information, West writes, seem to reflect the expectations of the Fair Information Practices that form the basis of most privacy law. Because social media users value privacy so heavily, she adds, government agencies should strive to protect user privacy in these mediums. - Andrew Krzmarzick

It seems like every time I talk to people about privacy, there’s a feeling that younger users of online tools simply don’t care about the issue. Often, I am asked why privacy advocates like CDT push government and industry to protect privacy more robustly- when “no one cares”? In short, people seem to be asserting that digital natives like myself do not value privacy online. While this point is oft repeated, I think that this argument is flawed, and does not address the subtleties of privacy in the cloud, social networks, and other new online technologies. Simply put, these technologies are giving digital natives (really, all users) greater control over their information - and we use it. - Andrew Krzmarzick

It seems like every time I talk to people about privacy, there’s a feeling that younger users of online tools simply don’t care about the issue. Often, I am asked why privacy advocates like CDT push government and industry to protect privacy more robustly- when “no one cares”? In short, people seem to be asserting that digital natives like myself do not value privacy online. While this point is oft repeated, I think that this argument is flawed, and does not address the subtleties of privacy in the cloud, social networks, and other new online technologies. Simply put, these technologies are giving digital natives (really, all users) greater control over their information - and we use it. - Andrew Krzmarzick

A guest post on Wired.com by Heather West of the Center for Democracy and Technology tackles whether online privacy is a generational issue. Recent studies, including one on behavioral advertising, show that those in younger age groups care most about how their information is used, and many teens and young adults have now come to expect a high level of control over their personal information. Those expectations of control over information, West writes, seem to reflect the expectations of the Fair Information Practices that form the basis of most privacy law. Because social media users value privacy so heavily, she adds, government agencies should strive to protect user privacy in these mediums. - Andrew Krzmarzick

GovDelivery Inc.’s announcement today that it is acquiring the GovLoop social networking Web site is a good fit that makes good use of what both entities have to offer and offers prospects for new revenue-producing services, according to industry analysts. Steve Ressler, a Homeland Security Department employee, founded GovLoop about 15 months ago as a free networking site for federal, state and local employees. As part of the GovDelivery deal, Ressler resigned from DHS to operate GovLoop full-time as a division of GovDelivery. GovLoop, sometimes described as "Facebook for feds," has more than 18,000 members, according to GovDelivery. - Andrew Krzmarzick

GovDelivery Inc.’s announcement today that it is acquiring the GovLoop social networking Web site is a good fit that makes good use of what both entities have to offer and offers prospects for new revenue-producing services, according to industry analysts. Steve Ressler, a Homeland Security Department employee, founded GovLoop about 15 months ago as a free networking site for federal, state and local employees. As part of the GovDelivery deal, Ressler resigned from DHS to operate GovLoop full-time as a division of GovDelivery. GovLoop, sometimes described as "Facebook for feds," has more than 18,000 members, according to GovDelivery. - Andrew Krzmarzick

The State Department is really serious about using the Net to get people to reach out to people in different countries. This is the "21st Century Statecraft" stuff, person-to-person public diplomacy. I figure it's our way of reminding the world that our government and people are serious about American values again. The next step is the "Virtual Student Foreign Service" where students considering this form of public service can actually do something real. Here's the deal: The Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS), announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. - Andrew Krzmarzick

The State Department is really serious about using the Net to get people to reach out to people in different countries. This is the "21st Century Statecraft" stuff, person-to-person public diplomacy. I figure it's our way of reminding the world that our government and people are serious about American values again. The next step is the "Virtual Student Foreign Service" where students considering this form of public service can actually do something real. Here's the deal: The Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS), announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Countless citizens will be empowered next week to help spot fraud and waste in the spending of $787 billion in economic stimulus money. Recovery.gov, a Web site launching Sept. 28, will fuse spending data, project information and recipient information to enable interested citizens to track exactly where the stimulus money is going and what it is paying for. This level of transparency will unleash a new form of oversight, predicts Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which is charged with overseeing stimulus spending. The new Web site will create “citizen IGs” able to spot and report anomalies in spending that even the best data-mining tools might not find among billions of dollars, he said. In addition, citizens might be aware of improper relationships between local officials and contractors or of reasons behind a lack of progress on a project, Devaney said. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Countless citizens will be empowered next week to help spot fraud and waste in the spending of $787 billion in economic stimulus money. Recovery.gov, a Web site launching Sept. 28, will fuse spending data, project information and recipient information to enable interested citizens to track exactly where the stimulus money is going and what it is paying for. This level of transparency will unleash a new form of oversight, predicts Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which is charged with overseeing stimulus spending. The new Web site will create “citizen IGs” able to spot and report anomalies in spending that even the best data-mining tools might not find among billions of dollars, he said. In addition, citizens might be aware of improper relationships between local officials and contractors or of reasons behind a lack of progress on a project, Devaney said. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Hey, this is Gov 2.0, not what you're expecting from federal workers, and there's hardly any press regarding any of it. There's new excitement among Federal civil servants. They've been seriously empowered to do their job, they've been told their jobs really matter, which is something they haven't heard for years. Top leadership is genuinely supportive of good public service. Result: a lot happening, beginning to deliver way better levels of public service. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Hey, this is Gov 2.0, not what you're expecting from federal workers, and there's hardly any press regarding any of it. There's new excitement among Federal civil servants. They've been seriously empowered to do their job, they've been told their jobs really matter, which is something they haven't heard for years. Top leadership is genuinely supportive of good public service. Result: a lot happening, beginning to deliver way better levels of public service. - Andrew Krzmarzick

TechXav is a technology blog managed by a group of young and adroit bloggers between the age of 14-15. As tech enthusiasts, we write articles related to technology, especially what’s new on the web. For example, we review Web 2.0 apps, start-ups, publish breaking news and share our opinions and thoughts with adults all over the world. With an average of 3,000 daily unique visitors and over 1,000 RSS subscribers, TechXav is ‘one of the world’s most popular technology blog (under the teenage category)’. - Andrew Krzmarzick

Participation in telework rose in 2008, but the percentage of eligible federal employees who took advantage of the alternative work arrangement on a regular basis remained small, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office of Personnel Management. Last year, 102,900 federal employees worked off-site at least once a month, the report stated. That's an increase of 8,257 employees, or 9 percent, from 2007, when 94,643 employees teleworked regularly. But it is only 8.6 percent of eligible workers and 5.2 percent of all federal employees. - Andrew Krzmarzick