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Highly recommended article. The CITIZEN SUPERHEROES slideshow is hilarious. Basically, this article explains how technology makes government less bureacratic.

This article is on how the public should be able to see government meetings and have access to government records. Technology is helping this happen.

This article discusses the new and different ways people now get their information about things that are happening in the news. It is all about using social media to do this. Cities, towns and counties are taking advantage of these social media websites and it is helping them reach out to more people. People are already on these websites daily, so it is more convenient. It helps to engage the citizens. These new social media tools have also helped lower many costs.

Baby steps in making technology affordable changes.

One very revealing panel (in a web-streamed Advocacy Live event in March) included Eric Jones, the top technology person for Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who provided tips and advice about ways that online organizers might boost their campaigns' impact on members of Congress and their staffers. Recorded  video event posted by Blackbaud on this webpage.

Technology pop quiz for business owners: What's more secure? A. Data stored in redundant back-up server installations (or "the cloud"), automatically updated and maintained, in a facility secured from outside threats. Or B. Data stored or backed up to an on-site tape or flash drive, whenever the company's controller or non-IT back-office staffer remembers to do it - then left in the drive? For many, the answer in theory is A, but in practice, it's B. Why is this important? Because studies have shown that 70 percent of companies go out of business after a major data loss and 60 percent of companies that lose their data will shut down within six months. Yet those unfamiliar with cloud computing still believe onsite back-up is a safe, secure solution. Therein lies one of the most compelling reasons to embrace cloud or ERP (enterprise resource planning) computing.

I can imagine how many people benefited from this free service.

Another foundation assisting nonprofits in being more efficient

Technology for HR services is a no-brainer.

A link to after school programs that help at-risk youth that have been started as a product of technology. Spreading the word about creating and funding these programs is becoming either through the globalization of the web.

I recently posted on posterous about the government's need to catch up on technology. Apparently Obama agrees!