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Rock Creek Roundup (January 14 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Jan 14, 2011

Drupal comes to Capitol Hill, on the lookout for civic innovation, and rulemaking 2.0, all in this week’s edition of the Rock Creek Roundup.

—If you thought the White House and Congress couldn’t agree on anything, think again. The U.S. House of Representatives announced this week that Drupal,...

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Rock Creek Roundup—Best of 2010

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Dec 30, 2010

2010 was another banner year for Gov 2.0. At Rock Creek, we not only work in this field; we also advocate for it and chronicle it in weekly blog posts. These “round-ups” consistently draw the most eyeballs to our site, and so we thought we’d republish our 10 favorite stories from the past 12...

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Is This English? Where Plain Language Meets Branding

Posted by: Natalya Minkovsky, Director of Strategy Dec 14, 2010

“Is this English?”

“Not plain English.”

“This just means they got my letter, right?”

“Yep.”

“Then why couldn’t they just say, ‘We got your letter’?”

This conversation took place in my parents’ kitchen after my brother received a letter from a state government...

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Rock Creek Roundup (December 10 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Dec 10, 2010

The Social Security Administration asks for feedback on its Agency Strategy Plan, the Department of Defense supports plain language, the Department of Agriculture heads for the cloud, and federal agencies get kudos for their social media endeavors, all in this week’s chilly edition of the Rock...

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Rock Creek Roundup (October 22 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Oct 22, 2010

The public increasingly values transparency, Congress seeks a little transparency of their own from the team at Facebook, the Department of Defense emphasizes collaboration to combat cybersecurity threats, and – on the lighter side – the FCC live-tweets NLCS playoffs, all in this week’s...

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Rock Creek Roundup (October 1 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Oct 01, 2010

The Department of Education launches TEACH.gov with a little help from Rock Creek, government forms are on the road to making more sense, Michigan and Utah receive top honors for their digital efforts, and DoD’s former social media guru shares lessons learned, all in this week’s edition of the...

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Rock Creek Roundup (September 24 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Sep 24, 2010

The Federal Communication Commission embraces Drupal, the White House Press Secretary presses on in the face of a Twitter bug, IT professionals share the failures that helped lead to their ultimate successes, and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is in the process of getting a makeover in...

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Rock Creek Roundup (September 10 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Sep 12, 2010

At the Gov 2.0 Summit, held this week in D.C., Challenge.gov launches, FCC seeks “citizen developers,” and data continues to dominate the Open Gov/Gov 2.0 discussion.

—GSA and the White House continue their quest to connect government with citizens in innovative ways with this week’s launch of

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Rock Creek Roundup (September 3 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Sep 02, 2010

GCN discusses ways that social media has an impact on emergency management, the Center for Digital Government gives kudos for stellar sites, NARA gives agencies the green light to dump unnecessary data, and OhMyGov debunks social media myth number 4, all in this pre-Labor Day issue of the Rock...

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Rock Creek Roundup (August 27 Edition)

Posted by: Meagen Ryan, Director of Strategy Aug 27, 2010

Health and Human Services debuts a new health insurance widget, the Office of Special Counsel sets guidelines for political activity by federal employees, the government URL shortener go.USA.gov receives rave reviews, and Power It Down suggests we conserve energy by turning off our computers when...

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