Cities embrace mobile apps

Welcome to a movement the tech crowd is calling "Gov 2.0" -- where mobile technology and GPS apps are helping give citizens like Newmark more of a say in how their local tax money is spent. It's public service for the digital age.
via cnn.com

This CNN piece introduced me to SeeClickFix, an iPhone app that lets you shoot a picture of a problem -- a pothole, say, or graffiti -- and send it to city officials who can fix it. You can also spot reported problems near you that others have reported.

Here's a video on the service from the SeeClickFix website:

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I'm Shel Holtz, principal of Holtz Communication + Technology, consulting with organizations to enhance their online communications since 1996. I have more than 30 years of experience in organizational communication, including stints as corporate communications director at two Fortune 500 companies. I'm a founding fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and a fellow and Accredited Business Communicator through the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

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