W3C eGov Meeting: Tomorrow 24 August 8:00-9:30 am PST

Hi all--

The next meeting of the W3C eGOV Interest Group will take place on Friday, August 24 from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Los Angeles (11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST) time.

The discussion will focus on the use of social media by government and other state actors to interact with citizens, busines,s and with each other, and related technology and policy issues.

If you are interested in sharing your experience with social media development and use in the public space or know about an initiative, experience, research findings, etc. worth sharing, please present it to the group or encourage your colleagues to present. Please contact Jeanne at Jeanne.Holm@jpl.nasa.gov to coordinate any future presentations.

AGENDA

08:00 - 08:05 Welcome and introductions
08:05 - 08:15 Defining the discussion space
08:15 - 09:15 Social Media case studies
  --Carlos Ivan Chesnevar--DECIDE 2.0:  Intelligent Processing of Citizen Opinions in Social Media (slides can be downloaded at http://cs.uns.edu.ar/~cic/w3c-decide20.zip)
  --Soon Ae Chun--Social Media in Government: Findings of the Special Issue of Government Information Quarterly
09:15 - 09:25 Summary and next steps
09:25 - 09:30 Next meeting

We will also need a member of the group to help scribe. This is essentially taking notes in the IRC chat during the teleconference to capture the key points of the discussion. If you are able to volunteer to scribe for the next meeting (or interested for future meetings), please contact Tomasz or Jeanne directly.

Looking forward to talking to you tomorrow!

Ways to connect:

--Telecon line: Dial +1-617-761-6200 or sip:zakim@voip.w3.org<mailto:zakim@voip.w3.org><mailto:zakim@voip.w3.org> then conference code 3468# ("EGOV#")
--W3C IRC channel #egov, see http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/ or use http://irc.w3.org/?channels=egov
--Scribe: (please volunteer, if you've done this before)
--Group access via the W3C at http://www.w3.org/egov/ and also via LinkedIn at the W3C eGovernment Interest Group:http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1800648&trk=hb_side_g

--Jeanne

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Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
U.S. General Services Administration
Cell: (818) 434-5037
Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn: JeanneHolm
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