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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

Director of Innovation and Social Media Gadi Ben-Yehuda is the Director of Innovation and Social Media for the IBM Center for The Business of Government. Previously, he was a Web Strategist for the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer. He has taught creative, expository, and Web writing for more than 10 years to university students, private-sector professionals, and soldiers. He has an MFA in poetry from American University, has taught writing at Howard University, and has worked in Washington, DC, for nonprofits, lobbying organizations, Fleishman-Hillard Global Communications, and Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign.
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Iron Man, Batman and Spider-Man: What We Can Learn About Privacy From Superheroes

August 26, 2013 The explicit message of modern superhero stories is best summed up in Spiderman’s origin tale, “with great power comes great responsibility.” But the implicit message is that some people are able to exert greater influence over events than others. And, whether in the DC or Marvel universe, there is a ...

5 Instagram Feeds the Government Needs to Start

July 16, 2013 When Pinterest was approved for government use, I shared 10 boards I’d like to see (note: #8 is now live!). Now that GSA has approved Instagram for use by federal agencies, here is a more modest five users/feeds I’d follow: Department of the Interior. Look at this. Or this. Forest ...

Better Decisions Through Smart Disclosure

July 12, 2013 A review of the report from the National Science and Technolgy Council, "Smart Disclosure and Consumer Decision Making: Report of the Task Force on Smart Disclosure" Access to data has been WD40 to the wheels of the US economy. Companies like Facebook and Google derive their value from the data ...

4 Trends Shaping the Tech-Driven Workforce of the Future

May 30, 2013 The FOSE convention was held this month, and I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the future of the workforce—specifically how technology is changing the work environment and will enable people to succeed within it. There were four technologies that I saw as coalescing to transform the workplace: ...

3 Reasons Federal Managers Need to Understand Identity Management

April 2, 2013 Robust identity management can help government managers. In my last post on emerging trends, I wrote about online identity management and how it could benefit individuals, governments, and the economy. For this post, I want to concentrate on how a more complete identity management scheme would benefit government managers in ...

3 Ways Tech Is Changing Washington (and One Way It Isn't)

February 28, 2013 For Social Media Week DC, I participated in a panel that discussed how tech is changing the culture in the nation's capital. All of the panelists had interesting points and perspectives--espoused by Microsoft's Dr. Mark Drapeau, Carousel30's Greg Kihlstrom, and PageLever's Jesse Channon. For my part, I talked about three ...

Who Are You? Four Trends in Identity Management

February 19, 2013 So far in this series, I’ve written about mobile technology, connected sensors, 3D Printing (which I called Products-on-Demand or PonD), and Advanced Sharing. Each of these is important, but the capstone, what will act as a force-multiplier for each, is a better understanding of and method for identity management. Think ...

The Secret to Restoring Trust in Government

February 7, 2013 Yesterday morning, I attended a panel that spoke about a new report released by the communications firm, Edelman, entitled “2013 Edelman Trust Barometer.” The findings, especially those that pertain to US citizens, industries, and institutions, are striking. Who we trust now The Trust Barometer examined how various countries’ populations viewed ...

3 Ways Social Media is Improving Government

February 4, 2013 In my last post, I wrote about advanced sharing—basically the idea that the things and the way we share online are becoming as diverse and sophisticated as the things and way we share off-line. Offline, we donate our time, we lend our friends and neighbors our tools, we check books ...

10 Awesome Pinterest Boards The Government Should Start

January 31, 2013 This post has been edited to reflect that "Interesting Things for Sale" is a personal pinboard, not an official GSA Pinboard. Here are the Official GSA Pinboards. In January, the General Services Administration approved the terms of service for Pinterest—meaning that federal agencies could start to use the site to ...