Legislative Data Standards are coming #hackwetrust #opengov (Taken with Instagram at Congressional Facebook Developers Hackathon)
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Its one thing to knowingly let the world know your whereabouts via Twitter, Foursquare, and the like but it is a completely different story when your social networking application shares all your contacts with the world including stats on who you email most often.
This is exactly why I shut down Google Buzz. I might be willing to share quite a bit, but even I have limits.
Thanks to Lewis Shepard (@lewisshepherd) and Adriel Hampton (@adrielhampton) for sharing this article via Twitter.
Great post by Andrea DiMaio of Gartner on OpenGov:
The way forward is a blend of openness and integration, transparency and prescription, collaboration and compliance. Government 2.0 can succeed if it is the evolution of e-government 1.0, and not just an alternative, if it gives e-government program managers options to successfully complete and complement what they were doing and not just a free ticket to turn their back on past failures.
Wow! As a former Microsoft employee supporting the Federal government, I can say with some limited amount of authority, that this is NOT an isolated incident (click the title to read the article).
The Microsoft Sales Machine often attempts to solve the problem before they really understand the problem, or even worse, truly relate to the problem. They do, typically have good intentions but their methods often miss the point.
Microsoft would be far better served actively participating in solving the business problem first, in its entirety, before offering (selling) up their software (be it in the cloud or not) as means of helping solve said problem. Technology is nothing more than a tool and tools don’t solve problems, people with great ideas do.
