Innovative methods to increase participation, obtain ideas and increase collaboration.

 Ways to Encouragement and Enticement to Change Behavior with Management encouragement JAM Session with food and fun Events, Contest, Polls RSS feed to inform new information or comment on their watch or interest page, Tutorial, Pilot wiki and blog for practice, Personnel Action Incentives *...
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Promote cooperation with other agencies, the public, non-profit organizations and private entities.

 First, if your Agency is a leader in Web 2.0 applications, you could promote cooperation with other federal agencies and other organizations to provide best practices, policies, procedures and a framework for open collaboration internally and with the public.  If other organizations work within our...
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Evolution of Manager’s Future Role with Open Government Collaborative Culture

With the explosion of information, and flattening technologies and organization, starting with e-mail, I think that a future agency’s Manager needs to focus more on the platform that enables collaboration, because and find themselves employees already have all the data. They have access to everything...
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Your Office could conduct work more openly and publish data online including ways to improve timeliness of the data and target the data to key audiences

The Agency should use their website including blogs to publish a summary of common customer comments and explain the actions they are taking in response to the feedback. Effort should be made to respond according to responders suggestion or comments. Doing so will create better transparency and accountability.
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Ten Points on Gov2.0

Government 2.0, as defined on Wikipedia  is neologism for attempts to apply the social networking and integration advantages of Web 2.0 to the practice of government. William (Bill) Eggers claims to have coined the term in his 2005 book, Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education,...
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