Fousquare, a location based application for smart phones, has been growing in popularity at an exponential rate. In 2010 the... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency – Build a Transparency Search Engine
Google Custom Search is a simple service that lets you create your own search engine based on links that you... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Opening Up Data with Socrata
I’ve been a long time fan of Google Fusion Tables and have written about the service previously. The platform is... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Analyzing Engagement with PostRank Part 2
Looking back on last week’s post, I realize I didn’t get to cover all the ground about PostRank that I... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Analyzing Engagement with PostRank
We often take blogs for granted, but they remain a wonderful resource for users and an essential, easy-to-use tool for... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Guest Blogger Roundup
Over the past two months we’ve had a series of guest bloggers offering insight to the work they’re doing, the... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Reddit’s Self-Serve Advertising
It’s often easy to fall into the trap of relying solely on social media as a means of promotion: Most... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Note Taking with Twitter and Google Docs
Not too long ago I attended a Crisis Camp unconference hosted at George Washington University in Washington, DC. For my... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Enhance Blog Comments with Disqus
You don’t often think of the comment section as playing an important role in blog messaging since I bet it... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Easy Ways to Organize Your Events
With all the great online resources for progressing the open government movement it’s important to remember the offline element and... View Article
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