IBM THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership
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Yearly Archives: 2011
HELP! Active duty spouse to transfer–as a GS what are my options?
My husband is active duty– and his detailer is saying he is going to have him go to SanDiego or Portland– more than likely it will be Portland because my husbands family lives in Eugene. My questions are as follow: (1) Anyone know of work in that area? (government–I am a Public Affairs Specialist–but willingRead… Read more »
Do You Value Play?
Part of my podcast consumption includes something most of you are very familiar with, TED talks. I normally save them up and have a TED marathon every couple of weeks. Recently this one peaked my interest. It is by Steve Keil titled “A Play Manifesto”. Although many of his references are about his home countryRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up December 02, 2011
Gadi Ben-Yehuda On December 07, GSA is presenting a Webinar on social media metrics that I will be moderating. Here are some of the articles that I’m likely to touch on: Make it like a game. As the Apps for Healthy Kids site can attest, people are more likely to do the things they shouldRead… Read more »
Taking the “2.0” Out of Technology
This topic has been coming up a lot lately. I wrote about it a few weeks back: Social Tools Do Not a Process Make. A lot of people are overly focused on technology as a solution rather than a tool that can be used to re-enforce good policy, procedures, etc. (Read=Process) Fellow GovLoop-er, and communicationsRead… Read more »
The plight of the clay layer
“When I go to Heaven, I’ll Spank God’s Ass” by alphadesigner Let’s face it, new hires want everything. Senior management, perpetually seeking out the best and the brightest, hopes to give these new hires everything they desire but are often too busy with the work to bring the change to the bowels of the organization,Read… Read more »
Let the sunshine in
The MTA wants to make a long-abandoned parcel available for development and two architects hope technology can turn the space into an underground park. Original post
Londoners are quick to adopt real-time info
Just weeks after Transport for London (UK) introduced real-time bus arrival information, thousands of riders are taking advantage of the updates. Original post
New Zealand government social media guidance
More examples of advice and guidance on using social media tools in government, this time from New Zealand. The first bit is the High Level Guidance, described as helping: organisations when they are trying to decide if they should use social media in a communications, community engagement, or a policy consultation context. It is intendedRead… Read more »
Using Open Data to Map Vancouver’s Trees
This week, in preparation for the International Open Data Hackathon on Saturday, the Vancouver Parks Board shared one neighborhood of its tree inventory database (that I’ve uploaded to Buzzdata) so that we could at least see how it might be leveraged by citizens. What’s interesting is how valuable this data is already (and why itRead… Read more »