1. Making the Case for Connections
January 19th 2011

2. The Need for Government Transparency
I started out with these questions…
•Did the financial crisis and the events leading up to it increase the
need for government transparency, oversight and citizen participation?
•How do social media websites like www.govloop.com or
www.challenge.gov facilitate or speed this transformation?
I arrived at this conclusion…
•The NEED has always been there; the convergence of technology and
society’s knowledge base had to occur.
•Thus allowing for social media sites like GovLoop.com, Challenge.gov
or even wikileaks.com to be created to allow citizens to connect WITH
government and each other to co-create value FOR the people.
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3. Desire for Connections
Moving from the era of :
EXPECT to know and ASSIST with the outcome.
HAVE to know and WAIT for outcome.
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4. Societal and Technological Shifts Will Make Collaborative Government Possible
Broadband and WI-FI
Dial-up modem
Snail-mail and telephone
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Industrial Society Information Society Collaborative Society
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5. Thought Leadership
Small teams making decisions
using information that the group Special interests supplying Increased public involvement via
sources information to move the business Social Media platforms
world agenda forward
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Closed Biased Information Pervasive Crowd Tested Information
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6. Govloop.com profile
•GovLoop.com was created in 2008 by a United States Federal employee
•To connect, share and collaborate
• Open to Federal and State employees, government contractors, students and
citizens at large
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7. Challenge.gov profile
• Challenge.gov is the US government’s social media initiative to actively engage
citizens in a collaborative way to solve challenges.
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8. Anecdotal Business Case Examples
• Walmart- Fighting Hunger Together Campaign
•Was a social media “challenge” to drive communities to “compete” for a
$1,000,000 donation to a local food bank
•Salt Lake City, Utah gathered an astonishing 5.3+ million “likes” in support
of the community to win this challenge. SLC population is ~1,000,000
•Coop-tition- The Sunset Blvd “Club” community.
•The Whiskey, a bar and club on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood created a Twitter
page
•The Viper Room, Red Rock Bar, Libertine, Mr. Miyagi’s
•The COMBINED Twitter lists grew 10 fold and is still growing
•The collaboration and connection CO-CREATED Value for ALL in what I call
“The Momentum Effect”
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