Next Gen Web’s Supernova 2010 Coverage
07/16/2010 by NextGenWeb
Stay tuned for Next Gen Web’s coverage of Supernova Forum 2010: Perestroika, held July 29-30, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.
Third Way event, “Black in Black: A Plan to Defeat the Deficit”
06/23/2010 by NextGenWeb
On Tuesday, June 22, Third Way hosted an event titled, “Back in Black: A Plan to Defeat the Deficit.” The event featured a keynote address from Majority Leader, Steny H. Hoyer, as well as a panel discussion from Robert Bixby, of The Concord Coalition, Robert Greenstein, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Honorable David Walker, of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Click below to watch archived footage of the event.
Innovation in Health Care at BIL-PIL
08/13/2009 by Shana Glickfield
With health care taking center stage in national policy debates, it is only fitting that some of the top e-health innovators in the U.S. will be gathering for an unconference in the fall to brainstorm on the future.
BIL:PIL is seeking to change the landscape of health care through science, technology and public policy. This TED-like event features over 100 speakers and 500 attendees.
Some of our e-health favorites on the agenda so far:
• Dr. Val Jones, CEO of Better Health (@drval)
• David Williams, Founding Executive, PatientsLikeMe.com (@DSWIII)
• David Hale, Project Manager, Pillbox. National Library of Medicine/NIH (@lostonroute66)
There is still time to add your name to the list. Speaker submissions will be accepted until September 30th. What broadband-powered innovation in health care would you share?
Rep. Clyburn Touts Connected Recovery at Broadband Census Breakfast
07/15/2009 by Shana Glickfield
House Majority Whip James Clyburn joined broadband advocates, providers and policymakers to discuss how the FCC’s National Broadband Plan will affect the broadband stimulus. Clyburn believes that broadband is essential to the recovery effort today.
Most of the communities that Clyburn represents were left out of earlier census tracks, and he is working tireless to make sure that that the recovery package will not repeat those mistakes. The communities that Clyburn represents in South Carolina stand to recover, as does the entire nation, through broadband. “Networks are very important to communities like mine.”
Clyburn believes strongly in the tremendous potential of broadband to advance education and health care. “We can’t do health care correctly if we don’t do broadband sufficiently.” He further made a special call to action for rural broadband, saying that connecting these communities will help them pull out of unemployment. “It will move rural communities into our new economy.”
And by new economy, he surely he means our broadband economy.
NextGenWeb Sponsors Gov 2.0 Camp in DC!
03/26/2009 by Shana Glickfield
The latest unconference to hit DC is Gov2.0Camp, and it is taking place at the Duke Ellington School in Georgetown tomorrow and Saturday. Don’t let the informalities fool you! The conference will convene 500 participants, has long been sold out, and is drawing the biggest names in government and new media to discuss the use of social technologies to create a more effective, efficient and collaborative U.S. government on all levels (local, state and federal).
The event has impeccable timing. News just broke today that the General Services Administration has signed agreements with several Web 2.0 services, including Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo, to ensure federal agencies that use these new-media tools are safe from legal liability. Barack Obama also just completed the first-ever online town hall with a sitting President, allowing viewers to watch and submit questions from WhiteHouse.gov.
As the government follows President Obama’s lead and continues to grow online, both in transparency and interactivity, broadband becomes even more of a necessity. Gov2.0Camp will be exploring this and many other issues. You can follow the conversation on Twitter via the hashtag #gov20camp, join the online community GovLoop, and of course, watch for continued coverage on NextGenWeb.
New York Leads Nation in Electronic Medical Records Systems
03/16/2009 by NextGenWeb
New York Leads Nation in Electronic Medical Records Systems
eMax Health
March 11, 2009
Click here to read the full article: www.emaxhealth.com
Tech Start-Up Community Takes Pointers from Political Experts
03/15/2009 by Shana Glickfield
The top strategists from recent political campaigns took to the stage to present “What Your Start-Up Can Learn from Barack Obama and Howard Dean” at South by Southwest on Saturday. Although many in the political world of Washington, DC, have been carefully considering each campaign’s approach for months, this discussion was unique because the panelists were applying their political experiences to technology start-up businesses.
Clay Johnson of Sunlight Foundation captured the audience’s attention right off the bat when he asserted that even new technology businesses need to have an opponent. Just as Barack Obama was fighting against the status quo and Howard Dean was fighting against the Iraq War, start-ups need to similarly address an enemy, whether that is boredom, connectivity, or whatever a new business seeks to address. And just as the candidates did, new businesses need people to understand why their product or service means change for them.
Jake Brewer, the Internet Director of the Energy Action Coalition, enumerated several concepts from campaigns that tech start-ups should embrace. Brewer encouraged start-ups to think like a movement and to be open and authentic. More concretely, he also believes that email and video are still keys to engaging the public. And finally, he urged start-ups to fail and learn from the ways that they fail, just as many campaigns do.
Michael Bassik, a longtime political strategist and currently Chief Digital Officer for Air America Media, believes that start-ups also should consider taking a localized approach. This includes localizing online marketing, website content, email marketing, mobile marketing, and more. Taking a cue from Obama, Bassik is confident that providing a local connection will be extremely valuable to even a national business marketing campaign.
Scott Goodstein was the power behind Obama’s innovative mobile campaign, known best for embracing shortcodes and giving mobile subscribers first-to-know information. Goodstein urges start-ups not to be afraid to experiment with new technologies and to use short-term testing to see which approaches are most effective. Citing the viral video success of the Obama campaign’s Will.i.Am video, Goodstein noted that consumer attention is a great way to validate tactics.
Finally, Mary Katherine Ham represented the Republican angle of the panel. Ham is from Weekly Standard and was formerly a conservative blogger for TownHall.com. Listening to your consumers is a great tool for start-ups which Ham saw the Dean campaign do by using feedback from supporters to craft fundraising messages. Her final advice — to communicate on a gut level and make sure not too use too much of your own jargon.
03/10/2009 by NextGenWeb
Health Transformation
National Review
March 9, 2009
Click here to read the full article: www.nationalreview.com
Jefferson’s Moose — A New Model for Exploring the Internet
02/25/2009 by NextGenWeb
Looking to history to better understand the present is not very unusual, but applying Thomas Jefferson’s exploration of the New World to today’s exploration of the Internet is truly an exceptional and fascinating theory.
Last evening, Amplify Public Affairs hosted Professor David Post for a discussion of his recently released book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace. Post began his speech the way he began each opening lecture in all three courses that I took from him as a student at Temple Law School — with the disclaimer that he does not have the answers. A humble approach for an Internet scholar so accomplished in law, technology, anthropology, music, and more.
The introduction by Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge, the discussion by the author, and even the thoughtful Q&A with the Internet policy savvy audience, all held closely to the book’s theme of scalability.
• How will the Internet sustain the increase in bandwidth heavy applications?
• How will we regulate this intangible and ever growing public territory?
• What system will best allow for future, yet-to-be discovered projects?
I look forward to reading the book for enjoyment and exploration €¦ but not necessarily for answers, per orders from the author himself.
01/16/2009 by NextGenWeb
State Pursues Health-Information Technology
Louisville Courier Journal
January 16, 2009
Click here to read the full article: www.courier-journal.com
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