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What do citizens want from their public offices?

Have to have to do less.

Citizen obligations such as filing taxes or needs such as requesting business licenses and permits are more conveniently and efficiently handled online without having to wait in lines.

Welcome to GOV.UK, the best way to get to government services and information

Brits, well versed in promotion since the British pop invasion, have understood to feature the most needed funtionality up front whithout compromising brand building.

With Medienpuls Bavaria by the Bavarian Center for New Media (BLM) is playing catch up with current developments, a courageous first step though. A meeting calendar aiming to attract media companies with a central platform as starting point for social media activities. TED talkshas long demonstrated how this is done.

TED is not about a monkey stroking branch but is celebrated by a world audience, which in turn gets the industry’s attention. Medienpuls Bavaria seems to be taking a different route with help of local agency St. Elmo, they are focused on the media trade -if at all- they hope to attract a broader audience with trade insights.

No secret: experts and specialist are terribly boring.

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NYC.gov claims to have 25 million visitors per year – as much as Central Park.

Mayor Bloomberg has hired an adorable and capable spokesperson, with whom Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule has kicked in at age 28, with bringing back the magic of Madison Avenue (MAD MEN ☛ Silikon Alley) with a difference, make it the capitol of the digital age. First results: collaboration with Facebook and Twitter. By way of a New York hackathon NYC.gov gets a makeover. All of which should become graspable within the next 45 days. All eyes on Rachel Sterne, who was called most influential woman in tech by Fast Company.

A huge amount of time never held possible.

Let’s stay with the idea, which more often than not presents itself to you from seemingly nowhere.

After the idea has been checked for its usability and campaign ability from the different aspects of strategic application, rapid development is recommended. Proverb: One should strike while the iron’s hot.

When a German in New York was so kind as to show me around Bob Greenberg’s RG/A in the mid eighties, a devoloper had turned his workspace within the spacious floor into a tiny sheetrock compartment, with just enough space for a desk, a computer and camp bed.

Developer in midst of a train of thought would lose the flow of complex thinking if pausing.

A magical process for which anything from outside the head is but a contra productive disruption.

As a kid, I was convinced, that all creation was exclusively an act of god, certainly not the business of us humans, our governments or corparations. Our playground was one of sorting out creation, and remix to our liking and best use.

Currently the flourishing fantasy or bizarre expression (Netizens, you will lose the battle!) by Ansgar Heveling, a politician from Germany’s christian democratic party, has immediately been set straight by a less fictional and more factual copyright article by Lawrence Lessig: The vietnam war of the internet.

The definition of ‘mental property’ has yet to become feasible and graspable for the general public. A refresh is certainly required.

While at it, a ‘European identity’ has never emerged and requires serious fostering.

Brussels can’t expect a New York visit and being called Euro trash from Europeans to get a feel for what European could mean.

Even worse, what does the first amendment of the German constitution, ‘Human dignity is inviolable’ mean, now that Germany has dropped the idea of its socioeconomic fundaments in the face of Hartz IV?

Does all and everything require updating these days?

As for copyright, it should help to take a long hard look at Creative Commons.

Few people are interested in your resume any more. Plenty are interested in what you’ve done.

The second thing you’ll need to do is regularly note what you produce in a log or find some other way to keep track.

The first thing is more difficult: If the work you do isn’t worth collating and highlighting, you probably need to be doing better work.

With a honest perception of self, all you need to do is demonstrate your work while you are getting it done. This will do more for your business pursuit than any work of any ad agency can do for you today.