collaborative problem solving to solve policy issues.

diagram of how recovery.gov works

Federal Advisory Committee Act preform oversight on congressional committees

This is perhaps the most awesome site ever for data and word nerds. Its a social network for data sets and visualizations. I'm literally in heaven!

public access survey

five page document on organizational needs for democracy

Nancy Scola on Dana Milbank about congressmen using twitter.

Google map of commerce justice state bill by location

Clay Shirky on net positives and absolute positives? How do we get there and still give the it's due?

list and description of several data mashup sites you can use to track government and make government more transparent.

Ideas about using Diigo for government transparency

eventbrite site for TransparencyCamp

Planning wiki for TransparencyCamp

I think Diigo opens up a lot of possibilities for online conversations. For instance, check out the comments on the first blog post at whitehouse.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/)? One thing I see possible is to engage people in a conversation on a site, even if the site itself isn't actively engaging with visitors (not allowing comments, etc). The whitehouse.gov people can still see what people are saying about their work--and they'll have to start paying attention if a group of activists focusing on them. I'd love to explore this idea with your help--what do you think?

Nevada State Assemblyman David Bobzien bookmarks his legislation on Diigo.

Nevada state assemblyman David Bobzien used MixedInk as a crowdsourcing tool to improve legislation on a solar energy incentives program. Good example of a state level transparency project.

What's really interesting is where what used to be the typical schedule information will go. Info about speeches and appearances where what used to dominate the site. Now it seems that information will appear as blog entries...?

Yes, now that the public is more accustomed to the blogging format, updating the blog with speeches and appearances will make sense. They still need to have a static page that contains all speeches for instance.