Nick Mudge’s Technology and Government Weblog

Wayne Hall points out David Fletcher has a new post about Utah IT.

I liked Scoble's post today about blogging. I like the small things in blogs.

Forrester has come out with an interesting report about social computing. I think this is some interesting traction if Forrester is giving it thumbs up.

From the executive summary:

Individuals increasingly take cues from one another rather than from institutional sources like corporations, media outlets, religions, and political bodies. To thrive in an era of Social Computing, companies must abandon top-down management and communication tactics, weave communities into their products and services, use employees and partners as marketers, and become part of a living fabric of brand loyalists.

I've heard that word of mouth is the most effective form of promotion or dissemination. I'm certainly more interested in what the people around me have to say about things than what I see on TV. I feel the same way about blogs. So this makes sense to me. It seems to me however that the internet and electronic communication gives individual word of mouth a microphone it never had before, and which has always been the great advantage of mass communication mediums.

Kansas City Star has a good piece on blogging.

I found the Kansas City Star story and Forrester report from Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion, which I'm liking.

I recently sent some emails to some bloggers and I got emailed back. I love it so much. That's one of my favorite things about blogs and the blogosphere is that when you are looking at a blog, the person is right there, ready to talk to you -- they are talking to you. If you are there, being a person, the person on the other end is there for you to talk to. I've had some of the best communication/email exchanges with bloggers. Connections are pure joy.

I told Alice Marshall about Govtech's new buttons. Government Technology has added a "Bookmark to Del.icio.us" button to all the news stories on the homepage, and to the GT Mag stories, and the Digital Communities stories.

The eRepublic IT department also recently informed me that they are also adding the del.icio.us bookmark to all the stories in the content categories, such as E-Government, GIS, Homeland etc. I think this is really cool, and I think this will then encompass all the stories on govtech.net. One of the things I've wanted and I know executives at eRepublic (the parent company) have wanted was to build more of a community around the subject of egovernment and technology in government on the internet. There are bloggers around interested in technology in government, so I think this is a nice step in the direction of involving govtech more with people online. Government Technology has also added a feedback button, so people can now easily send feedback about articles.

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