Carolyn

Recently, Carolyn...

• tagged Twitter for emergency evacuations with the tag twitter about 1 year ago.

• edited Twitter for emergency evacuations about 1 year ago.

  Mississippi to Twitter for Upcoming Hurricane Season  The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will use the social networking site Twitter to provide traffic information for evacuation routes during the upcoming hurricane season. MDOT has created separate Twitter feeds with route-specific traffic information for evacuees traveling on six different interstate highways. Evacuees will be able to receive real-time information via cell phone text messages regarding fuel ...

• created Twitter for emergency evacuations about 1 year ago.

  Mississippi to Twitter for Upcoming Hurricane Season  The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will use the social networking site Twitter to provide traffic information for evacuation routes during the upcoming hurricane season. MDOT has created separate Twitter feeds with route-specific traffic information for evacuees traveling on six different interstate highways. Evacuees will be able to receive real-time information via cell phone text messages regarding fuel ...

• commented on Creating a Sustainable Public Sector: the Role of ICTs about 1 year ago.

  In preparing for this session, we recognized that many of the audience will have a great deal to contribute.  There are many aspects of this question that will make this session interesting and informative.  What do you think?

• commented on Digital continuity - a hidden aspect of e-goverment about 1 year ago.

  I used to talk a lot about this - I got people's attention by saying that as we rely increasingly on electronic documents for source and archives, we were in danger of creating a "hole in history" if we didn't figure out how to manage those electronic archives across eons - and keeping the people's history is the sacred duty of government.  New Orleans and Katrina are a case in point that really sharpened focus on the issue in the US.  They lost a lot of historical and contem...

• created eRulemaking about 1 year ago.

  Expanding opportunities for citizens to comments on proposed federal rules, policies and regulations.  I suggest you take a look at the site (www.regulations.gov) - use "broadband" as the subject and roam around for a minute.  You also have the opportunity to subscribe to a feed on any topic.   e-Rulemaking: Committee makes recommendations for future of e-rulemaking The Council for Excellence in Government's Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking issue...

• commented on French Government launches digital conversations about 1 year ago.

  And here is a nice piece about government in SecondLife, including a congressional hearing, an interview for a government job, and a consortium looking at what's next. Government Consortium to Investigate Virtual World Best Practices Oct 9, 2008, By Chandler Harris Last April, avatars gathered at the virtual world re-creation of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunication and the Internet to listen to a presentation about the future of virtual worlds. Representativ...