Government Bodies Are Taking The 2.0 Plunge

Reporting From Brussels...

Today, Steve and I spent the day at GovCamp, a one-day conference in the same vein as BarCamp. This un-conference was set up for government bodies and public institutions to learn how to come to the dark side of all things we promote and love in Web 2.0 and social networking.

Here are some of my thoughts on what we all took away:

• great speakers, great people and some good fun
• governments and organizations need to recognize and harness the power of social networks, Web 2.0 tools and the internet.
• taxonomy, blogs, forums are all ways for governments and institutions to provide access to information and hear the voice of the people. This isn’t anything new, or that we haven’t heard before, but institutions need to start taking note of this and find ways for utilizing
• hurdles: multilingualism and dual language content, particularly in content management systems
• there is defiantly a need for content management systems

Tomorrow, Steve and I are heading on over to DrupalCon for 2 days, then we'll be BarCampin' it at BarCamp Brussels... and by the way, Brussels Rules, even with uppity french people yelling at each other in traffic.