Week 94 Update

January 25 – 31 went like this – lots of meetings, not as much actual work as I would have liked. The good news is there’s still time to get it done. The bad news is that means there’s more to do in the time that’s left.

• The fabulous Kelli Shewmaker (co-organizer of Social Justice Camp) has agreed to help develop our volunteer coordination system. The goal is to make it easy for anyone interested in the future of government to get involved in making it better.
• Art Bushkin joined our Advisory Board this week. Art has been around the Internet (or its predecessors) for more than 40 years and honored me by saying, “I meet hundreds, even thousands of people, but there’s a reason I’m sitting here with you.”
• Preparing to launch a fundraising campaign focused on engaging 2,010 donors in 2010.
• Working on several upcoming events that will be announced when they are ready!
• Met with Britt Blaser to discuss the great work he’s doing with iVote4U. Is this the future of citizen to government communication?
• Jim Gilliam made some minor tweaks on GovLuv that should improve its performance and stop those pesky error pages – we’ll see. They’ve been difficult to track down!
• Discussed GovLuv with Karina Newton, Director of New Media for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office. She likes it! It’s easy to see why she is where she is – she’s intelligent, personable, quick-witted, and on top of her game. Impressive.
• Met with Daniel Bennett of the e-Citizen Foundation during our (new, but planned to be regular) Open Gov @ Open City meetup. They’re working on some great stuff and we discussed ways that we could work together to accomplish even more.
• Had my first discussion with Billy Grundfest (Hollywood writer – Mad About You, etc…) – he and I will be working together to manage the Language of Gov2.0 track at Gov20LA this coming weekend. He’s so much fun and quick to grasp ideas – it’s going to be an amazing weekend!

Weekly Updates
Wayne Moses Burke
February 1st, 2010 12:01 pm
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