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		<title>You Worry About Powerful Registered Lobbyists; I&#8217;ll Worry About 	Powerful Unregistered Non-Lobbyists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Washington Post ran a story about how the Obama administration will bar registered lobbyists from sitting on the nearly 1,000 advisory panels to the Federal government. These are panels of subject matter experts with named like the Defense Science Board who conduct studies that the government doesn&#8217;t have time to perform, and provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did Government Become a Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Drapeau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did government become a business? I keep hearing government called a business, and business terms like &#8220;efficiency&#8221; creeps into the lexicon here among progressive Washington folk. Sorry, government is not a business any more than the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, or a public high school. Yes, they have some things in common, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Codename Dallas: CIO Kundra Helps Unveil New Microsoft Cloud Datasets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Drapeau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra surprised attendees by appearing via videoconference and teaming up with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft&#8217;s Chief Software Architect, to showcase several new features of Azure,the company&#8217;s cloud computing services platform.
These new Azure features include an open catalogue and data marketplace, codenamed DALLAS, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov 2.0 Event &#8211; &#8220;Open Government: Pages From the Playbook&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Drapeau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m attending a Government 2.0 unconference called Open Government: Pages From the Playbook at the MLK library in DC. If you&#8217;re not here, you&#8217;re missing out. Attendees are hearing from govies and contractors about how they are adopting the Administration&#8217;s directive on open government. I hear and read a lot in this area, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Innovative Social Engagement Look Like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the topic of Government 2.0 a lot lately. Part of this topic deals with the multi-directional engagement between government and citizens. This is what the White House and others have termed a more transparent, collaborative, and participatory government.
Unfortunately, the engagement for the most part is not [...]]]></description>
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