*Open Government Resources*

• How transparent is your local government’s website?
• Contact State and Federal Government officials
• “Sunshine Standard”

Government and Social Media

• Find out if your elected official is using certain social media
• GovFresh’s Gov 2.0 Guides
• Legal Issues Associated with Social Media: A “Heads Up”
  for Local Agencies
• Social Media & Political Campaigns: Resources
• Social Media Subcouncil Wiki
• Go.USA.gov – URL shortener (government employees only)

Stats/Reports/Data

• GovLoop Datasets
• Examples of Open Government
• Open Government Data Benchmark Study
• Resource Guide on Public Engagement (from the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation; via GovLoop)
• 2010 Gov 2.0 Year in Review
• Transparency Helps E-Government Increase Citizen Satisfaction
• A National Survey of Social Media Use in State Government (.PDF)
• Socrata Social Data
• “Communicating with Congress: Perceptions of Citizen Advocacy on Capitol Hill” (.PDF; story via Fierce Government IT)
• Papers from the 1st Global Conference on Transparency (via techPresident)

FOI(A) Related Issues

• Sunshine Week
• Freedom of Information (FOI) Resources
• Cameras in the Court: A State-By-State Guide (HT)
• GovFresh: “Everything you ever wanted to know about FOIA in 17 short videos” (HT)
• #FOIAchat – Tune into Twitter on (most) Fridays at 2pm EST (more info by Sunshine Review).

Open Meetings

• Proposed transparency legislation, Open meetings legislation (HT)
• Executive session rules across the country (via a Tweet from @FOIAchat on Twitter)

Events – OpenGov and Gov 2.0

• A lot of Events are listed on GovLoop.
• Let us know which ones should be added to the list!
• Here’s some that might be of interest:
  • “CityCamps” (About CityCamps)
  • Selected Past Events…
    • CityCamp Raleigh, NC
    • OpenGovWest (Portland, OR)
    • 2011 FOI Summit (Providence, RI)
    • OpenGov Playbook
    • Gov 2.0 Camp New England (we were the video sponsor)
    • Gov 2.0a Conference (Oklahoma City, OK)
    • Transparency Camp

Social Networks for Government

• GovLoop
• ICMA’s Knowledge Network
• BetaCities

Federal Government (specifically)

• White House’s Open Government Directive
• A Timeline of U.S. Government use of Social Media
• GSA on Social Media in Government
• 13 Best Practices for Open Government Webpages (via @POGOBlog)
• HowTo.gov

Government and Tech / Open Government-Related Organizations

• Sunlight Foundation
• National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC)
• OMB Watch
• National Association of Government Webmasters (NAGW)
• National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
• Public Technology Institute (PTI)
• MuniGov

Media/Press/Publications – Government, Technology, etc.

• News
  • NextGov
  • GovTech
  • Government Computer News (GCN)
  • Federal Computer Week (FCW)
  • InformationWeek: Government
  • American City & County
  • CivSource – Gov 2.0
• News/Commentary
  • GovFresh | “gov20.govfresh“
  • O’Reilly radar – Gov 2.0
  • techPresident
  • Next American City

*This list is not exhaustive by any means. These should not be considered endorsements (of or by them), we aren’t necessarily involved in the following organizations (etc), and we are not liable for the accuracy of the information contained on these websites.