Alan Levine (a.k.a. CogDog) is not happy, and I can completely understand why.  He was recently contacted by someone in Australia who indicated that the New Media Consortium website has been blocked by a firewall:
“This strategy is one for which [United States] court systems usually assume innocence until proven guilty, yet in the “Lock ‘em down tight” world of Firewalls, you are guilty until proven innocent. The assignment of “guilt” is not made known or explained, but one has to call some phone number, and plead for innocence?
This is stark …

Session One (Keynote) Government 2.0: The Not So Secret Society of the Goverati
Presented by: Eric Hackathorn, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Session Description: http://www.nmc.org/2009-nml-symposium/hackathorn-keynote
Recording:
http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/hackathorn-keynote.mov
Goverati web site: http://www.goverati.com/
‘Twittometer’ for determining crowd opinion
Open with Video:

Above clip is an older version is an older one. One used during the session is:
http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/goverati.mov
[podcast format="video"]http://media.nmc.org/2009/03/goverati.mov[/podcast]
Goverai is connected with citizens
Admiral Grace “The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way”
Govloop
Obama is the first wired president. May be the first president to use email. Calling for transparency, collaboration.
[Common Craft video …

Links/Resources:

SLURL for Conference Centre Information Desk

Symposium Program
My Flickr Set of Screen Shots
My YouTube Playlist of Screen Casts (NB: I won’t be making as many of these as I did during the last symposium because the NMC will be releasing recordings of every session.)
Chatbridge (text chat into SL) (NMC login required)

YouTube Playlist of Screencasts
Press play to view all clips sequentially. Press left and right arrows to navigate to clips before or after the one currently displayed in the player or click a thumbnail at the bottom of the player to …

The presentation embedded above has been prepared for a discussion of last week’s NMC Virtual Symposium 2008 I’m presenting for my department’s monthly Research Showcase. With only 30 minutes to cover the presentation and subsequent discussion I’ve unfortunately had to be brutal in what I leave out – so if you’re work wasn’t included please don’t take it personally. I would have needed several hours to do the symposium justice.
Please feel free to use the comment area on this post to discuss the symposium, this presentation, or anything …

[Do yourself a favour and watch this 60 minute presentation in its entirety. It is a truly inspiring and throught provoking experience.]
It’s been a few days since the 2008 NMC Virtual Symposium drew to a close and its full impact is still materialising in my mind. The event was a first for me in several respects – the first time I attended a formal event in SecondLife, my first NMC symposium, and perhaps most important of all, the first time I’ve heard Jim Groom and Tom Woodward speak.
I’ve …