Kudos to iDiplomacy symposium participant Justin Carroll for the following tip…

With millions of users, startups like Twitter and Facebook have growth and reach that would be the envy of any company. But it’s not just the private sector that can learn from those companies – the federal government can too, and a new organization, the non-partisan Expert Labs, is seeking to do just that.

As Alissa Walker writes Nov. 18 in Fast Company:

During his presentation today at the Web 2.0 conference, Six Apart cofounder Anil Dash showed a before-they-were-famous photo that included the founders of Twitter, Flickr, and other well-known startups. They’ve learned plenty of lessons as Web 2.0 companies, he said. “What if we could bring these lessons to bear in service of our country?”

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