***The next public Open Government Directive Workshop with the GSA is now February 17th (RSVP by Feb 10th). ***

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This page contains some useful resources for federal managers while they are creating their agency's open government plan.  This list has been compiled by the open government community.

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• Transparency case studies
• Best Practices for Open Government Data from Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack.us, a civic project to track Congress
• Obama and Transparency: What Happens Next? by Ellen Miller
• Quantitative Assessment of Open Government Transparency Efforts by Fore See Results

• Participation case studies
• ParticipateDB, a nifty little directory of online tools for public participation
• Ten Things to Monitor as Agencies Invite Input on Open Government Plans (via the Intellitics Blog)
• Comment Moderation Policies (Web Content Managers' Social Media Subcouncil)
• Participedia, user-generated articles which will describe and assess participatory governance throughout the world
• An article calling for deeper participation: The Path Not Taken (So Far): Civic Engagement for Reform (from the Huffington Post)
• A deeper look at what makes a government web page accessible to disabled Americans 

• Collaboration case studies
• Collaboration Project, independent forum of leaders who share a commitment to the adoption and use of collaborative technologies to solve the complex problems of public management
• Social Media and Web 2.0 in Government (from USA.Gov)
• Web 2 0 Governance Policies and Best Practices (Web Content Managers' Social Media Subcouncil)
• Social Media Outlet Authentication Best Practices (Web Content Managers' Social Media Subcouncil)
• OpenGov Technology Matrix
• Example from the EPA: Guidance for Representing an Agency through Social Media (Web Content Managers' Social Media Subcouncil)

General Resources

• Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government an excellent white paper by the Federal Web Managers' Council
• Strategic Markup Language can be useful for agencies who want to make their strategic plans easier to find and interpret through the use of XML.  See link 1 and link 2.