The Next Generation of Government Summit is taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Arlington, Va., and while Wired Workplace is a few too many miles away to attend, I've been following the tweets and live blog posts from the summit. Word is that there's few, if any, feds over 40 years old at the conference, and it should come as no surprise that the overarching theme appears to be technology and open government.
Here are some key questions I've taken away from the summit thus far:
- Will daily briefings for federal workers be scrapped in favor of Twitter and blogs?
- Is social media and Government 2.0 more about the technology or about changing the way government does business?
- Do agencies have the human power to make engagement tools effective?
- How can the government enable niche audiences or career fields to find or interact with each other?
What do you think? Stay tuned for more on the NGG Summit, and click here for GovLoop's live blog posts from the conference.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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