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My name is Steve Radick and I’m an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 practice, working with clients across the public sector to integrate social media strategies and tactics into their organizational strategies.

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The Public Doesn’t Need to Know What Gov 2.0 is, But They Do Need to Experience It

Monday, March 8, 2010

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“Dear U.S. Government, There’s been a lot of media coverage about you becoming more open and transparent. There have been a multitude of new policies, conferences, guidelines, platforms, and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 and Open Government. You people in DC sure are talking a good game – trotting out your [...]

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Grading Social Media

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Later this week, I’m giving the keynote address at the University of Southern Indiana’s Communications Symposium, and while I’m there, I’ll be meeting with a number of their communications classes, including Intro to Interpersonal Communications, Special Events Promotions, Internet Communications, and several others. If you’ve kept up with this blog, you know that I’m really [...]

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Social Media isn’t a Prerequisite for Open Government

Friday, February 19, 2010

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Open Government/Government 2.0 is about more than wikis, open data, Twitter, Web 2.0, or social media—it is about the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent. Sure, social media can help facilitate this transformation, but starting a blog or Twitter account is by no means [...]

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Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Quick – who recently said this in reference to his organization’s social media efforts? “…if our consumers are younger, and they love video games, and they have shorter attention spans, and they love interactivity, and they love social media, and everyone blogs, and everyone’s on Facebook, why wouldn’t we put [...]

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