Recovery.gov Officials Embrace Twitter
Organizers of a week-long online dialogue focusing on the federal government's economic stimulus-tracking Web site Recovery.gov are embracing new Web technologies to spread word about their forum. During the course of the Internet conversation, which begins Monday and is hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration, participants are encouraged to "submit ideas on website design, data collection, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization, waste, fraud, and abuse detection, and other topics that are key to achieving greater transparency and accountability." The online discussion will be the first step in soliciting ideas for the structure of the Web site, which is intended to let taxpayers see how stimulus funds are being spent. Read CongressDaily's recent story here.
Earl Devaney, chair of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and Ed DeSeve, special advisor President Obama for stimulus implementation, are circulating a letter they hope will generate widespread interest in the project from the public as well as state and local partners, potential stimulus recipients and solution providers. Participation from the blogging community is critical to the success of this initiative, they wrote. Their team created a one-page summary of the IT dialogue that bloggers can copy and post. They also encouraged potential participants to follow the conversation via microblogging tool Twitter {@natldialogue / http://twitter.com/natldialogue}or on the "Recovery Dialogue: IT Solutions" Facebook group. As of Thursday afternoon, the Twitter page has 273 followers and the Facebook group has 100 members.
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