Panelist for the Transparency on the Social Web session
Gov/Org 2.0 kicked off with an interesting panel titled Transparency on the Social Web: How the Facebook Generation is Ushering in a New Era of Government.
The panel was moderated by Kathleen Fitzgerald from Scribd.com and the panelist were Gray Brooks from the Federal Communications Commission(FCC), Gloria Huang from the American Red Cross, Clay Johnson from The Sunlight Foundation, Andrew Noyse from Facebook and Riki Parikh from the office of Senator Mark Warner, D-Virginia.
This well-seasoned group of govies covered a variety of topics on how government and non-profit organizations can be more transparent in their communication. There were many informative messages including lessons on best practices for organizations, campaigns and candidates utilizing social media for listening in addition to messaging.
An important point made was that government isn’t a monolithic organization, however change relied on systemic shifts to culture within an organization, not just workload.
An interesting fact thrown out by Clay Johnson was that on average we consume 38 gigs of information of data a day so often times our brains are on overload. His suggestion: be just as selective with what we put in out brain as what we put in our ipods.
Posted by Christen N. McCluney.
