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May 20th, 2010 | Jaimey Walking Bear

Social Media and eDiplomacy at the U.S. State Department

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by Alex Howard | @digiphile | Originally posted on O’Reilly Radar; May 19, 2010

Richard BolyHow do you move from a culture of “need to know” to a culture of “need to share?” Richard Boly thinks about the answer to that question every day. Boly, a speaker at next week’s Gov 2.0 Expo, is the director of the Office of eDiplomacy at the State Department. His office is an applied technology think tank within the agency that’s focused on improving the agency’s communication and knowledge sharing.

Boly is responsible for overseeing Virtual Presence Posts (VPPs), enterprise search, classified web publishing, and social networking, including the development of “StateBook.” He recently spoke with me about all of these initiatives, as well as the cultural challenges of integrating social software into a large, distributed enterprise.

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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb

May 18th, 2010 | Jaimey Walking Bear

Smithsonian riding the new wave of new media

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Michael Edson on how the Smithsonian uses crowdsourcing and transparency to further its mission

Posted by James Turner | Originally posted to O’Reilly Radar; May 13. 2010

The Smithsonian Institution epitomizes the phrase “an embarrassment of riches.” With 137 million physical objects in its collection, and 28 distinct museums and research centers, you could spend the rest of your life there and not see everything.

Michael Edson, who serves as director of web and new media strategy for the Smithsonian, got his start cleaning cases in one of the art museums. He now oversees the Institution’s online presence, which he talks about in the following interview. He’ll expand on many of these same topics at the upcoming Gov 2.0 Expo.

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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb