Apps for my city? My city! I’m so used to thinking of Boston, Seattle and Philadelphia as “our” cities this year. I spend most of my time hearing about them from our fellows and thinking about what’s next for them, and when I’m not doing that I’m thinking about the cities who’ve applied for ourRead… Read more »
Vice President Biden recently toured the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. While there, he not only toured the facility, but spoke on the administration’s commitment to, and belief in, renewable energy technology as a vital part of America’s future economic competitiveness. One of the more forceful quotes from his speech, posted above, touchedRead… Read more »
I recently served on a grand jury, which is definitely some experiential learning. It allows one to discover many facets of the community that may not be encountered so regularly in the course of everyday life. The way a grand jury works is that you hear many, many case summaries, each of which takes anywhereRead… Read more »
Three Takeaways 1. Although Washington, DC ranks last in the SBE Council’s index, the rankings do not correlate with entrepreneurial and small business growth. Compare Washington, DC (# 51) with California (#45) and South Dakota (#1). 2. According to the rankings, Virginia (#14) is far more favorable to entrepreneurs and small businesses than Maryland (31)Read… Read more »
GSA’s Section 508 program recently created a guidance document, Guidance on Conducting Market Research. Buyers in federal agencies are required by law and regulation to conduct market research. Market research is a means of ensuring that what we want to purchase is in fact actually available. For ensuring accessibility and compliance with Section 508 whenRead… Read more »
Image via Wikipedia During the recent security conference Hack In The Box, security researchers from Qualys Labs showcased the fruits of their efforts to scan the Internet’s websites for proper implementation of security features like SSL and its successor TLS. What they found could only be described as dismal. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer,Read… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In this premium episode of The PM Podcast we you get to hear more of Wayne Turmel’s wisdom on improving your presentations. But not just any kind of presentations… Remember that Wayne is the president of www.greatwebmeetings.com, which means, that the one thing he knows more aboutRead… Read more »
I received a great question from Chris this morning, a question I get very often. Hi josh, Things are going fine. But it has been hard to enter into Project Management field. All jobs need a minimum of three years of hands-on as a project manager. How one can get entry into this field? AnyRead… Read more »
This week at the Mesh conference in Toronto (where I’ll be talking Open Data) the always thoughtful Jesse Brown, of TVO’s Search Engine will be running a session title How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet. As part of the lead up to the session he asked me if I could write him a sentence or twoRead… Read more »
IBM The Center for Business in Government has just published my first research report on “Using Wikis in Government: A Guide for Public Managers” in their Using Technology section. You can download a pdf version of the report here. Here is a short description of the report from the IBM website: Public leaders face theRead… Read more »