Federal Blogs Offer Excellent Insight into Agency Needs

We’ve all heard how important it is to listen to our prospects and clients and federal government clients are no different. The federal government continues to adopt the use of social network platforms and blogs allowing them to communicate more frequently with their constituents inside and out of government. Government contractors should pay close attention. [...]

BetterBuy press conference live Twitter feed

Live Twitter feed of BetterBuy press conference:
Follow the highlights of the press conference as they’re tweeted by the attendees. Links to be added later.
Better Buy Project: Better Buy is a joint project of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council in conjunction with the General Services Administration. The [...]

TWTRCON DC Live Twitter Feed

Stuck at home so I’m “attending” TWTRCON DC with help from the great peeps at the event sharing the event via Twitter. Jump in!
Some great information being shared especially for those of you who are not yet on Twitter either because you’re a skeptic or not quite sure what to make of it yet. I’ll [...]

GovDelivery Mentioned in WSJ

A couple of days ago GovDelivery announced that they had acquired GovLoop, a rapidly growing social network for government employees. (GovLoop acquired by GovDelivery) The social network should benefit from increased access to capital as it expands it’s user base.
It took eight years for GovDelivery  to reach the one billion email milestone and they reached [...]

How Valuable is “Being There”?

An interesting blog post by Marc Hausman of Strategic Communications Group got me to thinking. In his post he admits that one of their social media campaigns is not delivering on all 8-cylinders for their client. Although results are far ahead of expectations when it comes to creating awareness and positioning they fell far short [...]

GovLoop Acquired by GovDelivery

GovDelivery has acquired social networking site GovLoop. GovLoop will operate as a division of GovDelivery, with founder GovLoop Steve Ressler to continue in his role as President.
“GovLoop has been called the Facebook® for government, because it helps people across government collaborate and solve real problems every day,” said GovDelivery CEO and co-founder Scott Burns. “Steve Ressler has led GovLoop’s [...]

Time Spent on Blogs and Social Networks Triples From Year Ago

Nielsen released some astounding numbers showing “wholesale change in the way the internet is used” according to Jon Gibs, VP of Media and Agency Insights of Nielsen’s online division.
Internet users spent 17% of their time on social network and blogging Websites in August. This is up 300% from August 2008. Users are connecting, communicating, and [...]

Twitterview #prexaminer – Discussion on twitter about PR

@ValerieSimon Twitterviews @evanweisel about PR. Thread starts at bottom. Twitter view lasted approx 1 hour and included just under 50 tweets from start of Twitterview to end. You’ll find great advice in these tweets from an industry expert in Evan Weisel, co-owner of Welz and Weisel Communications, a PR firm supporting technology companies around the [...]

Social Media Warning

Before I get into the pros and cons of social  media and how government contractors can move into the world of GovCon 2.0 I felt it appropriate to issue this warning:
WARNING! SOCIAL MEDIA IS ADDICTIVE
Just wade through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or numerous other sites and you’ll spot addicts who can’t seem to pull away from [...]

What is GovCon 2.0?

GovCon 2.0 is the practice of winning government contracts (i.e. government contracting) utilizing both tried and proven methods developed over decades and Web 2.0 tools and resources to gain a competitive edge.
To better understand where the term “GovCon 2.0″ came from it’s helpful to look at the term “Web 2.0″ and what it means.
Wikipedia defines [...]