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		<title>Top 200 .Gov Websites: Thinking about Metrics and Performance Management for Open Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Better Government Websites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Government Websites by Visitors:

Top FederalWebsite:  ED.gov 
Top State Website:  CA.gov
Top City Website:  NYC.gov

On the eve of the open government directive, I wanted to start thinking about to measure how well an agency does Open Government.  Afterall we are not working on Open Government to say we are doing it, but to serve the mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Better Open Government Websites Recap: Accessibility and Social Media Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[508 compliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our October 30 workshop with Potomac Forum, we invited Terry Weaver, Director of the Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA), to be on a panel discussing 508 legislation compliance and Social Media. 5 significant points emerged from that discussion which will affect multiple agencies engaging in social media and open government initiatives:

Youtube now offers captioning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linking Benefits to Federal Spending to drive Government Innovation.</title>
		<link>http://www.opengovblog.org/2009/08/linking-benefits-to-federal-spending-to-drive-government-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Fischer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government 2.0]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunity: Spending of government  money should have a purpose and that purpose should be for the benefit of someone whether directly or indirectly.  The benefit might for an employee to work better and that employee might be working to benefit a group of citizens. The administration wishes to create a more transparent, effective and innovative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov 2.o Spoofing is here. Reciprocal Link Authentication could prevent misunderstanding.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[government 2.0]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postscript:  Another example of government spoofing was a prank cell phone call from India to the Pakistani Defense Minstry the day after the Mumbai terrorist attack.  The called claimed to be an Indian Defense Ministry Official and was claiming that India was going to retaliate. Planes went up in the air on both sides and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Authenticity:  Should Feds carry a badge in cyberspace? Or at least a reciprocol link?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Fischer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of the internet will involve more authentication than it does today but here is a potential interim solution to provide some level of authentication for Gov 2.0 presence on online social networks such as facebook and twitter. standard policy of having a reciprocal link back to a facebook fan page or twitter account [...]]]></description>
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