Social Media Policy Gov20
Pete Cashmore
The largest independent news source covering web culture, social media and tech. Updates from @mashable staff. Tweet @mashablehq for questions and comments.2,729,063 followers | Follow
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.1,532,604 followers | Follow
Steven Johnson
Writer. (7 books, most recently Where Good Ideas Come From.) Web site creator (3 companies, most recently outside.in.) Dad (three boys.)1,445,712 followers | Follow
ReadWriteWeb
The latest news, analysis and conversation in all things web, tech and social media from the ReadWriteWeb.com team.1,144,928 followers | Follow
Open Government
Official Twitter account of the White House Open Government Initiative395,708 followers | Follow
foursquare
foursquare helps you explore the world around you. Meet up with friends, discover new places, and save money with Specials! Questions/support: @4sqSupport355,368 followers | Follow
Change.org
Change.org is the world’s fastest growing platform for social change, empowering millions to start and join campaigns for social change in their communities.254,057 followers | Follow
Alex Howard
Gov 2.0 @Radar Correspondent, @OReillyMedia: alex@oreilly.com. Intrigued by technological change, taken with ideas, cooking, the outdoors, books, dogs and media119,301 followers | Follow
Nieman Lab
The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University: Trying to figure out the future of news.74,380 followers | Follow
trendwatching.com
trendwatching.com is an independent consumer trends firm, relying on hundreds of spotters worldwide.64,631 followers | Follow
craignewmark
customer service rep & founder for craigslist & craigconnects48,344 followers | Follow
Open Society
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.32,072 followers | Follow
Jeff Urell
Open government, fiscal conservative, green, smart growth, cyclist, boater, technology, drummer, photographer, blogger, chess player located in Bluffton SC.30,638 followers | Follow
Rachel Sterne
Chief Digital Officer for NYC. @ me with your ideas for tech and NYC government.29,283 followers | Follow
matthew bishop
NY Bureau Chief, The Economist; co-author Philanthrocapitalism & www.philanthrocapitalism.net/27,635 followers | Follow
Pew Internet
The @PewResearch Center's Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization. Twitter feed managed by @SusannahFox, @JoannaBrenner26,654 followers | Follow
Nathan Yau
Data, visualization, and statistics. Author of 'Visualize This.' Background in eating.25,285 followers | Follow
Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.22,892 followers | Follow
O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Media's group blog about emerging technologies. Twitter feed managed by Mac Slocum, Alex Howard and Jenn Webb.21,762 followers | Follow
Sustainable Cities
We are a community of bloggers promoting civic sustainability and urban environmentalism. Join the conversation!21,153 followers | Follow
Dr. Mark Drapeau
I'm technically part of the Microsoft Office of Civic Innovation, but mostly I wake up, talk to people, and enjoy cocktails (not necessarily in that order).20,923 followers | Follow
Jim Cashel
Chairman of Forum One, a digital communications firm which works at the nexus of technology, public policy, and online community.19,670 followers | Follow
Guardian Datastore
Facts you can use from the Guardian. Mash them up and tell us about it. Facts are Sacred: The power of data (Guardian Shorts) eBook http://amzn.to/t2dAnR18,975 followers | Follow
SmartPlanet
Insight and ideas that impact your world. Cities. Design. Energy. Green. Innovation. Health. Science. Tech. Sustainability. Transportation. (From CBS.)18,746 followers | Follow
Ariel Waldman
creator of @ScienceHackDay SF + @Spacehack, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interaction designer + Institute For The Future researcher.16,727 followers | Follow
Stowe Boyd
Social Anthropologist, Clairvoyant, Postfuturist. My work is social tools and their impact on media, business, and society.16,257 followers | Follow
Forrest W. Kobayashi
Marketing and community. Technology writer. Coffee fan.13,060 followers | Follow
Sunlight Foundation
Working to change the relationship between citizens and their government with Internet technology.12,954 followers | Follow
Adriel Hampton
NationBuilder, Legination, Gov 2.0 Radio, SF Tech Dems. You don't ask permission to lead. 415-742-284412,555 followers | Follow
rachel botsman
Social Innovator. Speaker. Author on the power of collaborative technologies to transform business, public services and the way we live.11,437 followers | Follow
Steve Lunceford
GovTwit is the world's largest government social media directory. Managed by @DeloitteGov's @dslunceford & tweeting about Gov 2.0 & Open Government.10,961 followers | Follow
ServiceSpace
Change Yourself, Change the World. Through our small, collective acts, we hope to transform ourselves and the world.10,791 followers | Follow
Jonathan Maus
Tweets written by Jonathan Maus, founder/publisher/editor of http://www.BikePortland.org. 24HR Tipline 503-706-8804 (texts ok)10,617 followers | Follow
PublicAgenda
Empowering democracy thru nonpartisan public policy research & civic engagement. See also our @TheEnergyBook @FiscalFuture @FacingUp & visit us on Facebook.10,191 followers | Follow
Cindy FrewenWuellner
architect, futurist, urban designer, rhetorician, adjunct prof, treehugger, former biz owner now a writer/analyst exploring city futures, reborn from @cindyfw.10,144 followers | Follow
Ryan Scott
CEO of @Causecast. Social Entrepreneur/Investor pioneering Employee Engagement, CSR, & Cause Marketing Integration. Nonprofits ride free @CausecastNPO10,104 followers | Follow
Steve Ressler
Social Network Connecting Gov't Community Passionate about public service innovation10,002 followers | Follow
Liberationtech
How ICTs foster/hinder freedom, democracy, human rights, development (ICT4D, M4D & ICT4E), governance (Gov20, OpenGov) & activism. RT/post/FF ≠ endorsement.9,678 followers | Follow
Glyn Moody
writer (Rebel Code), journalist, blogger, mostly about GNU/Linux, open source, open content; the commons, copyright, patents and digital rights.9,120 followers | Follow
Shareable Magazine
Sharing by Design: carsharing, social media, cohousing, open source, cities, free culture, coworking, gov 2.0, coops, the sharing economy8,660 followers | Follow
Stephen Baker
Author of Final Jeopardy and The Numerati, former BusinessWeek writer8,466 followers | Follow
Adrian Holovaty
Web developer, Python programmer, founder of EveryBlock.com, cocreator of the Django Web framework, poster of YouTube guitar videos.8,347 followers | Follow
Ellen Miller
Co-Founder and ED of Sunlight Foundation. Also founder of Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign. Money, power, influence and transparency expert.8,089 followers | Follow
Code for America
We recruit top web professionals to give a year of service building web 2.0 apps for city governments.8,009 followers | Follow
Andrew Stott
Andrew Stott is on the UK Transparency Board & the former UK Gov Director of Transparency & Digital Engagement. Tweets here on data, IT & new media are his own.7,886 followers | Follow
Netroots_Nation
Connector of awesome progressive activists. Rocking Providence June 7-10, 2012.7,678 followers | Follow
Sarah Granger
Writer for SFGate, Spectrum, Forbes Russia, Huffington Post. Entrepreneur, innovator, speaker. Founder, Center for Technology, Media & Society.7,271 followers | Follow
Jennifer Pahlka
Founder and ED of Code for America. Mom. Keeper of chickens.7,171 followers | Follow
MN Nonprofits
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits - Informing, promoting, connecting and strengthening nonprofits. Tweets by Michaela Charleston and Christine Durand.7,058 followers | Follow
Jeffrey Levy, EPA
EPA Director of Web Communications, Co-Chair of the Federal Web Managers Council, Gov't 2.0er.6,887 followers | Follow
Gov 2.0 Events
Twitter account for Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo. Tweets by @jaimeywb, @digiphile, @laurelatoreilly.6,542 followers | Follow
Walter Schwabe
Founder/Executive Producer at fusedlogic.TV, keynote speaker on social, aspiring author, golfing hack, proud dad. 780-640-9339 http://about.me/walterschwabe6,358 followers | Follow
Tactical Tech
Tactical Tech, an NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work6,172 followers | Follow
Burson-Marsteller
The latest news, insights and research from Burson-Marsteller's Global Network6,069 followers | Follow
Craigslist Fdn
We connect people to the resources they need to strengthen communities and neighborhoods.5,967 followers | Follow
Global Integrity
Tracking governance, transparency, open data, and corruption issues from a global, bottom-up, gov2.0 perspective. Features our work, gossip, reports.5,669 followers | Follow
Smarter Cities
NRDC's Smarter Cities website profiling 139 U.S. cities will begin surveying cities this summer for next year's report.5,267 followers | Follow
Where Conference
The O'Reilly Where Conference: The Business of Location. Location technologies and ideas that matter. Industry-shaping trends. April 2-4, 2012 in SF.5,254 followers | Follow
PolicyLink
Finding ways for low-income people to access good jobs, good schools, good neighborhoods and good government5,239 followers | Follow
Beth Simone Noveck
Law Prof and former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer (2009-2011). Author, Wiki Government.4,431 followers | Follow
CrisisCamp
Barcamp/hackathon-ish event (supported by CrisisCommons) to encourage tech ninjas & people of all skills to use tech to help crisis mgt and global development.4,408 followers | Follow
Andrea Reimer
Former Green Party school trustee, current Vision Vancouver city councillor. Seeking happy planet.4,376 followers | Follow
Regards Citoyens
Notamment à l'origine de NosDeputes.fr, notre collectif vise à utiliser un maximum de données publiques pour alimenter le débat politique. #OpenData4,352 followers | Follow
bacigalupe
Research Professor, Family Systems, Global Health, Psychology, #eHealth #hcsm #hcsmeu Immigration, Technologies, ICT, Celiac, LatinAmerica, Chile, #OccupyHealth4,217 followers | Follow
Engaging Cities
Online magazine that shares creative strategies and new technologies to foster public engagement for livable communities.4,206 followers | Follow
Digital Democracy
A non-profit empowering civic engagement with digital technologies and programs that promote education, communication and participation.4,158 followers | Follow
techPresident
Personal Democracy Media's news site covering how technology is changing politics. Tweets by @nclarkjudd.4,016 followers | Follow
Andrew Wilson
Do. Learn. Improve. Repeat. Note: These are my views and my voice alone - no broader implications implied4,015 followers | Follow
The Social CIO
For social media active CIO or rising CIO ~ Using social media to facilitate, interact, learn, share & collaborate in IT, hardware, software, services & social.3,973 followers | Follow
Hillary Hartley
Geeky about egov, gov 2.0, music, coworking, parenthood, and gadgets. Tweeting more gov goodness over @gov20. Opinions are my own.3,844 followers | Follow
NYC BigApps
New York City software apps challenge to make New York more transparent, accessible, and accountable3,828 followers | Follow
Collab Consumption
Collaborative Consumption is the explosion in traditional sharing, lending, renting and swapping redefined through tech and peer communities #CollCons3,729 followers | Follow
DataMarket
DataMarket helps business users find and understand data, and data providers efficiently publish their data and reach new audiences.3,535 followers | Follow
Lisa Williams
CEO & Founder of Placeblogger, MIT Media Lab fellow, into the future of news. My learning-to-code blog: http://lifeandcode.tumblr.com .3,506 followers | Follow
Ctr for Civic Media
Innovating civic media tools and practices and testing them in communities. Account run by @akwhitacre.3,463 followers | Follow
Nate Garvis
NakedCivics is about new designs for civic engagement beginning with the 7 c's. Authored by Civic Thought Leader Nate Garvis.3,440 followers | Follow
Shaun Dakin
Tweets by Shaun Dakin founder @PrivacyCamp, @EndTheRobocalls, @ReverseRobocall also @ShaunDakin3,369 followers | Follow
toronto.ca/open
Official account of the City of Toronto Open Initiative | Building a city that thinks like the web | We're opening up, crowdsourcing + asking for help. Help.3,286 followers | Follow
DataMasher.org
Winner of Apps for America 2. A fun way to remix federal data by Forum One Communications @ForumOne3,260 followers | Follow
Massimo Menichinelli
Metadesign for Open Systems, Processes, Projects. Studying and enabling open collaborative projects and the systems that design them since 2005.3,042 followers | Follow
Newark Now
Newark Now builds strong neighborhoods by investing in Newark's most precious resource - Its people. ~ Cory Booker, Founder3,009 followers | Follow
Gov 2.0 Radio
The Gov 2.0 podcast | Live Sundays (US: 9 pm ET.) Founder: @adrielhampton Host: @allisonhornery joined by GovTwit's @dslunceford & @GovLoop's Steve Ressler2,953 followers | Follow
Robin Chase
Now: Buzzcar, p2p carsharing. Founder & former CEO Zipcar, GoLoco, MeadowNetworks. Focus on open solutions, pragmatic implementation & real-time CO2 reductions.2,927 followers | Follow
ChangeCamp Canada
Canadians re-imagining government and citizenship in the age of participation. This account tended by @remarkk2,907 followers | Follow
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality Research and Developent. Augmented Advertising and Communication.2,896 followers | Follow
The Extraordinaries
Creators of the @sparked online engagement and crowdsourcing platform.2,828 followers | Follow
MEDEA, Malmö Univ.
An academic take on collaborative media studies, #IoT & social innovation. Research centre at @malmouniversity - Tweeter: @topgaard2,779 followers | Follow
Oliver Morton
editor and writer concentrating on sci/tech change and its impacts2,646 followers | Follow
City Forward
City Forward is a free, web-based information hub that enables cities and citizens to gain insights about how cities work - and how they might be made to work.2,605 followers | Follow
Portland Plan
The Portland Plan will be the City's road map for the next 25 years, guiding our direction as the city grows and changes.2,537 followers | Follow
Governing People
The world's best thinkers on promoting smart, efficient, and transparent #government. Join the conversation!2,533 followers | Follow
SeeClickFix
I let you document non-emergency issues to the world, so that they can be fixed. Improving your community is just a click away!2,510 followers | Follow
Justin C. Houk
Contributor at ProgrammableWeb.com, Community Organizer, Content Curator, Needless to say these are my personal opinions.2,452 followers | Follow
Scott Klein
Editor of News Applications, ProPublica, and Co-Founder of DocumentCloud. I tweet about news, software as journalism, data viz, design, and sometimes baseball.2,342 followers | Follow
nicolasnova
Near Future Laboratory - Geneva University of Art and Design / design research in the field of digital technologies2,280 followers | Follow
Guardian Activate
A Guardian platform aimed at world-changers who have proven that through the use of technology and the Internet, we can make the world a better place.2,241 followers | Follow
Ben Berkowitz
CEO and Co-Founder @SeeClickFix Interested in Bicycles, Neighborhoods, Gov20, hyperlocal News, Social Entrepreneurship and New Haven, CT2,208 followers | Follow
Chris Taggart
Developer behind @OpenlyLocal, making local public data open and accessible, and co-founder of @OpenCorporates: The Open Database Of The Corporate World2,194 followers | Follow
pirkkaaunola
Strategies, online, collaboration, media and plenty of things. UX Design Lead @ Idean. Tampere/Helsinki/Internet, Finland.2,110 followers | Follow
Daniel Latorre
VP Digital #Placemaking @ Proj for Public Spaces http://pps.org Creator of Fixcity.org, #anthro #mediaecology #commons #bikenyc #urbanism #whOWNSpace & trimtabs2,074 followers | Follow
Adriel Hampton
An @adrielhampton project. #opendata and its possibilities. (don't check DMs here)2,073 followers | Follow
Augmented Reality
The world’s first & largest commercial Augmented Reality Conference will be held during April 21 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott.2,063 followers | Follow
The Enabling City
Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving and the Power of the Everyday.1,987 followers | Follow
Alin Wagner-Lahmy
Communities and Social Media Strategist, blogger, beginner photographer, mother, Sr. Product Manager for martindale.com and Lawyers.com1,983 followers | Follow
the Alliance
Membership association of 350+ private, #nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations. @SusanDreyfus is CEO. @UnitedNeighCtrs is partner.1,972 followers | Follow
Jennie White
I used to be a Boston tech blogger, then I went into the mobile industry. I geek out. I rock out. The key to my heart, pad thai and orange soda.1,875 followers | Follow
Mark Vanderbeeken
Senior partner at Experientia and editor of Putting People First1,836 followers | Follow
Code for Health
Inspired by @CodeForAmerica project. Give a year of service to projects that support advances in the American healthcare system.1,742 followers | Follow
DataMinerUK
@knightmozilla fellow at @guardian. Journo-coder wannabe. Drug of choice is #Python. Looking for #JavaScript fixes. Interested in all things #datajournalism1,715 followers | Follow
Alice Stein
marketer; business strategist; networker; technology enthusiast; xenophile; digital strategy for Boston Rising; membership chair for AMA Boston1,707 followers | Follow
gov2taskforce
This task force will engage, consult and develop policy around how government can use web2.0 to engage, inform and consult the community.1,706 followers | Follow
Allison Hornery
Into the connective public sphere, cool conversations, anything Parisian and pugs | creating @cofluence + @civictec | collab-ing @futuregov + @gov20radio1,686 followers | Follow
ePSIplatform
European Public Sector Information (PSI) Platform (Europe’s One-stop Shop on PSI re-use) Working to stimulate and promote PSI re-use and open data initiatives1,682 followers | Follow
Senseable City Lab
We're a research group at MIT exploring cities and new technologies. Directed by Carlo Ratti. http://senseable.mit.edu/1,662 followers | Follow
John Geraci
I co-founded Outside.in, hosted DIYcity, and now head the New York offices of innovation co. faberNovel. I like starting startups, disruptive ideas & blogging.1,662 followers | Follow
Mark Headd
I make the telephones ring and the bluebirds sing. Open Gov + Open Data + Open Communications. Chief pontificator at civic.io / formerly for voicingov.org1,661 followers | Follow
Allan Tear
I like to build things. Tech startups, global partnering, social innovation, and all things Providence1,661 followers | Follow
Joseph Porcelli
#DC neighbor. Focus #Gov2 #Community #Engagement. Approach #Mindful #Humanism. Work @GovDelivery @GovLoop. Fun @NeighborTweet #Hi5Fridays. Love @JennyWagon1,587 followers | Follow
David Moore
We're a non-profit organization building free & open-source software for civic engagement: @opencongress, and now for state & local transparency, @open_gov.1,576 followers | Follow
Open Data Network
Open Data Network #opendata #openaccess #opengovernment #opensociety #transparency #participation #collaboration1,573 followers | Follow
The Delib Team
Things that excite us: digital democracy, policy crowd-sourcing, public consultation, participative governance, open source. Doing great stuff!1,551 followers | Follow
Data Journalism Blog
::: The Data Journalism Blog ::: The latest News, interviews & features on data journalism ::: For all the data gagas out there! By @Maid_Marianne1,512 followers | Follow
Kevin Curry
I organize things. Code for America, Bridgeborn, CityCamp, Hokies, King's Grant Community League, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, HRVA1,500 followers | Follow
Gong Szeto
design, politics, finance, economy, social innovation, exploring the charged terrain of american democracy, future of chimerica, globalization. classic INTJ.1,495 followers | Follow
Mike Mathieu
Civic software entrepreneur, founder of Front Seat, Walk Score. Working on New Media Ventures, KUOW, Seattle Center Next50, Debate 2.0.1,485 followers | Follow
Philip Ashlock
I craft civic technology and coordinate local level open governance initiatives at OpenPlans.org. My current focus is Open311.org and CivicCommons.org1,470 followers | Follow
Open Data London
Advancing the cause for an Open Data initiative in the City of London. Account currently maintained by @late2game.1,384 followers | Follow
Semantic Web Company
Open World Assumptions! Linked Data and Semantic Web Consulting. Enterprise Semantic Web.1,360 followers | Follow
April Reeve
data management, enterprise architecture, and data data data, mom, books, audiobooks, movies, theater1,331 followers | Follow
Knight Commission
Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy1,326 followers | Follow
Tammi Marcoullier
In office: Innovation, online media, community, @ChallengeGov #gov20 #socmed. Out of office: Film, music, books. Hiking, biking, talking. Humor required!1,322 followers | Follow
IBM Government
IBM is providing Smarter public services for a smarter planet.1,306 followers | Follow
Andrew Greenhill
Mayor's Chief of Staff interested in how technology can help communities solve problems, save money, serve citizens and improve government1,260 followers | Follow
jennifer mcfadden
Exploring the intersection of media, tech & entrepreneurship; Director of Research & Adjunct Professor at CUNY J-School. http://about.me/jen_mcfadden1,170 followers | Follow
Michelle Pearse
Research Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Comm at Harvard Law School Library. Views expressed are my own, not my employer's.1,165 followers | Follow
Intellitics, Inc.
We're an early-stage participation startup working on bringing public participation to the web in new and better ways.1,146 followers | Follow
Don Eglinski
People have enough to live, but nothing to live for; they have the means, but no meaning.1,145 followers | Follow
Gary Holder-Winfield
CT State Representative for the 94th General Assembly district, Activist, Public Speaker1,134 followers | Follow
PhillyNewMediaHub
The Philly New Media Hub aggregates calendars, blogs and mailing lists in the Philadelphia area.1,100 followers | Follow
Daniel Dietrich
open data, open government and transparency evangelist. digital rights and freedom of speech enthusiast. aspiring trailblazer, and humble world changer.1,094 followers | Follow
Dmitry Kachaev
Human at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ ; ex-Gov 2.0 Hero; hacking on open data and arduino; climbing and longboarding for fun; (My favorites are just bookmarks)1,090 followers | Follow
SocialEntNews
Social enterprise research program Queensland University of Technology1,056 followers | Follow
Merry Rutrick
Communications, operations, technology, media, people, gov 2.0, the environment, public relations, politics, policy, law. I also collect Pez.1,043 followers | Follow
Emily Cunningham
UX, IxD, play, social tech, open source, data viz, Gov 2.0, Tikkun olam, good ideas, people, futurism, fun! http://bit.ly/wA9E1I1,034 followers | Follow
OpenGovernment NZ
Helping prise open the NZ Government. At keyboard is @MiramarMike & @nzlemming946 followers | Follow
CitySourced
CitySourced is a Real Time Civic Engagement Platform. It's Your Community!943 followers | Follow
Steve Ardire
'Merchant of Light' for disruptive software startups. Shape serendipity by interrogating reality. Idea fusion with associative thinking. sardire@gmail.com928 followers | Follow
Lisa Pickoff-White
Interactive producer for KQED, journalist, data geek, video producer, b-movie lover916 followers | Follow
David Alpert
David Alpert's personal Twitter account, not updated much. If you want urbanism updates, follow @ggwash.904 followers | Follow
Paul Huggins
Posting mainly Austin, technology and entrepreneur-related info.880 followers | Follow
Jeff Stanger
Interactive methods for presenting policy research. Research+Communication+Technology. Director, Center for Digital Information871 followers | Follow
Eric Gordon
new media professor at emerson college in Boston and director of Engagement Game Lab. Co-author of new book: Net Locality (http://amzn.to/g2zOVo)866 followers | Follow
Annabel Alafriz
IA/UX Designer and Web Globalization Design Stategist: Muses and Musings on the Nature of Visualizing Data853 followers | Follow
Dinand Tinholt
Vice President and global EU lead @ Capgemini. Passionate about cross-border eGov, Interoperability, OpenGov and transforming gov't. Views expressed are my own.836 followers | Follow
Brett horvath
Designer, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Global Development, Government 2.0, Future of Learning827 followers | Follow
Aaron Ogle
@OpenPlans software developer, JavaScript guy, GIS geek, sustainability advocate, 2011 @CodeforAmerica fellow.809 followers | Follow
ChangeCamp London
Canadians in London and Middlesex re-imagining government and citizenship in the age of participation. This account tended by @late2game.805 followers | Follow
Jennifer Belissent
Senior Analyst at Forrester, covering tech adoption in emerging markets and the rise of smart cities799 followers | Follow
Paul Worsham
Upcoming book author & nascent filmmaker. Organizer of various groups & events, incl. Startup Rockstars (Personal tweets here, not reflecting any organization)794 followers | Follow
Sonali Sridhar
Art school geek. User Experience maniac and co-founder of Hackruiter743 followers | Follow
Morgen Peers
Thoughts on city-regions and #opendata from east of Yonge St. Designing scalable technologies that improve places.732 followers | Follow
Maciej Ceglowski
Free database of user-reported bedbug infestations across the US and Canada726 followers | Follow
OpenDataPhilly
Philly-centric catalog of online data, apps and APIs. Suggest, rate datasets, build awesome apps. Create your own catalog w/ source code: http://bit.ly/jrd6Oh720 followers | Follow
Open Gov Eqentia
Comprehensive coverage on Open Gov & Gov 2.0, via Eqentia's Semantic news aggregation platform. Visit and experience Semantically powered smart aggregation.720 followers | Follow
MuckRock News
An American-as-apple-pie news tool that helps request, publish & analyze governments using public records laws and Internet gnomes. info@muckrock.com717 followers | Follow
Chris McDowall
Cartographer, data enthusiast, tea drinker, dog walker. During the day I do geeky stuff for @DigitalNZ.683 followers | Follow
CrowdCityConcept
Crowdsourcing the City / stay tuned on the Future of City Planning with the help of the Creative Citizen681 followers | Follow
Kendra K. Levine
Transportation librarian, pedestrian, cyclist, and wannabe hacker.676 followers | Follow
Alan Grabinsky
MA student of Media, Culture and Communications at NYU-Steinhardt. Public spaces,urban anthropology geek---Lic. Filos. FFyL UNAM (Alias Sabrosovksy)658 followers | Follow
Jared Duval
Author of Next Generation Democracy, Fellow @ Demos, MPhil Student in Modern Society at Cambridge650 followers | Follow
PlanningAlerts
Find out about Planning and Development Applications near you! An OpenAustralia Foundation project629 followers | Follow
CivicTweets
Interested in the intersection of government and technology for civic engagement. Maintained by @JeffreyCarlson619 followers | Follow
Better Buy Project
How can we use collaboration and social media to make the federal acquisition process more transparent, participatory, and collaborative?617 followers | Follow
Megan Rhyne
Virginia Coalition for Open Government - a non-partisan, non-profit open government advocate612 followers | Follow
Govistics by CGR
@Govistics is the most comprehensive public finance tool on the web. Covers 54k local gov'ts and school districts across the USA. Project of @CGR_Inform.606 followers | Follow
Jon Froehlich
Assistant Professor at UMD in CS and a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. I make, break, and study stuff for the environment, health, and the city.606 followers | Follow
Leo Romero
Collecting resources on neighborhood-based community building. See also the @ourblocks feed for stories of community.602 followers | Follow
Chris Haller
Urban Planner and Web Developer, Principal at Urban Interactive Studio LLC, also @EngagingCities601 followers | Follow
Cyd Harrell
poet, ux research geek at @boltpeters, citizen experience advocate598 followers | Follow
CivicScience
We power the world's opinions and share them with anyone who cares. Voted the Best Follow on Twitter by our moms.585 followers | Follow
Markus Strohmaier
Assistant Prof. at Graz U. of Technology (Austria), Visiting Assistant Prof. at Stanford U. (USA). interested in agents, networks, and social computation584 followers | Follow
Mash the State
Getting government data to the people. Updated by @adrianshort576 followers | Follow
Heather Miller
Lead Associate at Phase One Consulting Group, focused on strategy consulting for Fed Gov't clients. Open Gov't, Communications, IT Strategy, Change Management560 followers | Follow
Smart Government
Recognizing Smart Governments – those that take innovative steps to enhance growth, reduce spending, and minimize impact on the environment.552 followers | Follow
Alissa Black
550 followers | Follow
Christian P. Madera
Urban planner + tech geek. Public servant. Foodie, avid traveler. Husband.543 followers | Follow
Christine Outram
Christine Outram is a technology integrator, city lover, urban informaticist, designer of the Copenhagen Wheel & Director of City Innovation Group542 followers | Follow
Nonprofitmapping.org
We're building the first up-to-date, interactive map of today's changing nonprofit landscape.538 followers | Follow
Open Government
Combining the tools of new and traditional media to directly impact the transparency, accountability, performance, and effectiveness of the California.536 followers | Follow
MD Dept of Planning
Maryland State Data Center; Partner with the U.S. Census Bureau under the State Data Center program524 followers | Follow
Megan Secatore
Social Media, Instructional Tech, Visual Thinking, Infographics, Gamification, Boston.505 followers | Follow
Local Wiki
Connecting the people, places and events that shape our communities.503 followers | Follow
Samuel Wong
Data Mgmt, Technology, Economics, currently at U.S. Treasury. Formerly w/ NYC Council @GaleABrewer & OpenPlans. Views here are my own.490 followers | Follow
Deena Parham
News about U.S. urban mayors and city governments. Urban planner, preservationist. Also tweet as @urbanbydesign486 followers | Follow
Dan Schultz
Oompa Loompa at the MIT Media Lab, Recent graduate of CMU, Blogger at PBS IdeaLab, Author at Digiactive, Maestro of The GPF.485 followers | Follow
City Hall Fellows
change your city. change your future. smart, young & want to make a difference? go local! work for city government.484 followers | Follow
OOM Creative
Data Visualization Designer - Founder of OOM Creative - Senior Lecturer RMIT University.434 followers | Follow
Emily Castor
Political hack turned tech wonk. #P2P #collcons evangelist. Director of @CollabChats. Writes @ShareableDesign. Tweets on the sharing economy and startups.417 followers | Follow
Megan Dahle
Passionate. Strategic Do-er. Results Driven. Caffeine Addicted. Nursing Student.378 followers | Follow
Hey, Neighbor!
It's good to know your neighbors! Connect with neighbors in the many small ways that make a neighborhood great.367 followers | Follow
Ben Warner
344 followers | Follow
Kam Lasater
Software Architect by day, Triathlete by morning and Hash Runner by Weekend316 followers | Follow
Transparency Policy
The Transparency Policy Project seeks to understand and improve disclosure systems that protect the public. We are affiliated with the Harvard Kennedy School.297 followers | Follow
Katherine Fulton
President, Monitor Institute, Social Change Strategist, Journalist295 followers | Follow
Francisca Rojas
I study digital systems and the city. research director with the transparency policy project at HKS' ash center for democratic governance and innovation.272 followers | Follow
Matt MacDonald
@PRX Director, Project Management http://www.budgetvision.com http://www.mattmacdonald.com/about255 followers | Follow
Susan Bregman
The Transit Wire provides information on state-of-the-art technologies used in the public transportation industry.251 followers | Follow
Joe Merante
2012 Code for America Fellow and lawyer + Drupal etc, guitars, craft beer, slow food, curiosity. Tweets, never advice (or always a good idea). #cfaATX248 followers | Follow
Mark Frazier
Inspired by @umairh, we want to see 'Builders Challenge' contests run on blogs. Open source developer? Join us in creating the tools at Buildership.ning.com246 followers | Follow
CfA Philadelphia
Code for America Fellows collaborate with the city of Philadelphia and its communities to improve government using technology.234 followers | Follow
Sophie Raseman
Consumers, financial services, innovation, government. A lot about #smartdisclosure and #opendata. I work at the U.S. Treasury. Tweets/opinions are mine.224 followers | Follow
Michael Weiss
Associate professor at Carleton University and member of the Technology Innovation Management TIM program. Working on open source ecosystems and mashups.216 followers | Follow
PublicStuff
A NYC & Philly based startup creating an web & mobile apps that connect people with their municipal government.216 followers | Follow
Justin Auciello
I write & think about land use, innovation, tech, sustainability, coastal conservation, & Gov2.0. '05 MCRP from Rutgers (Bloustein). Also @auciello.208 followers | Follow
Mark Diner
195 followers | Follow
Smart City
171 followers | Follow
Eliza Keller
Reformed political junkie, now in outreach/communications at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation. (Views expressed are not those of the U.S. government.)164 followers | Follow
BOZZ MEDIA
Serving up hot plates of fresh videos, delicious websites + savory business plans. Specials Today: Wordpress evangelism, CRM, strange analogies.163 followers | Follow
Philip Winn
Thinking about how we make our cities. Thinking we can do better. Working on it with @openplans.156 followers | Follow
Brandon Jackson
yale student, interaction designer, human-robot interactions researcher, civic hacker154 followers | Follow
Dave Mitchell
Co-founder of mobile app company Connected Bits. I like people, math, and shiny things.134 followers | Follow
Maria deBruijn
Digital Media Specialist & Founder - Emerge Solutions, Inc., specializing in government and education use of Web 2.0, MA - Communications and Technology.125 followers | Follow
Next Gen Democracy
All things related to the the new book by @JaredDuval - Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change113 followers | Follow
Vanessa Hamer
Operations @OpenPlans. New Philadelphian. Believer in the Long Hunch. Avocado enthusiast.112 followers | Follow
CommunityInfoPoint
Keeping it local - innovative hyperlocal/neighbourhood/community 'touchable' project.105 followers | Follow
David Marcus
Founder of Routefriend, I enjoy working at the intersection of transportation and technology.104 followers | Follow
Michael Horning
Assistant Professor of Converged Journalism, Bowling Green State University. I'm interested in uses of new media in political communication and hyperlocal news.100 followers | Follow
Noah, Jason & Dave
Tech news podcast from the world of politics and government. Recorded in our nation's capital.97 followers | Follow
Amy Garmer
93 followers | Follow
Civic Innovations
Civic Innovations is a website devoted to promoting civic hacking, civic entrepreneurship and the release of open data by state and local governments.92 followers | Follow
Bit City Conference
The first BitCity conference will be November 4th, 2011 @ Columbia University. This year's focus is Transportation, Data & Technology. Join Us!92 followers | Follow
Shareabouts
A social mapping tool for sharing & crowdsourcing information about places.86 followers | Follow
Open Indicators C.
Developing Weave, an open source web-based data visualization platform78 followers | Follow
Laura McKieran
Local data *for and about* local action. Tracking w/o organizing is trying to reverse global warming just by staring at a thermometer. tweets're personal only.39 followers | Follow
Liz Greenberg
MBA student; future consultant; devoted Princetonian; musical theater nerd; overcommitted volunteer; francophile28 followers | Follow
Open Cities
17 followers | Follow
MKE DataInitiative
Helping our city by working with technology and data to innovate in business, community and government.13 followers | Follow
Andrew B. Samuel
I'm a fixer. I use cutting-edge social media to advance the Gov 2.0 movement and prompt local authorities into taking action on issues that matter to citizens.8 followers | Follow
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