Yearly Archives: 2011

Blogging Series: 10 Ways Open Innovation Can Transform Your Agency

10 Ways Open Innovation Can Transform Your Agency Starting this week, I will be doing a 10-part series on open innovation and how it can transform government agencies. What is open innovation? Open innovation is a phrase that was coined by Henry Chesbrough as, “…the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerateRead… Read more »

Inducement Prizes, Contests, and Challenge Awards

Inducement prizes – as opposed to “recognition” prizes such as the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes – are a growing element of how government is trying to spur innovation in solving tough problems both inside and outside the government, notes Annie Lowrey in a recent Washington Post article. Why? Because prizes are effective. Under the rightRead… Read more »

The Federal Coach: New Year’s Resolutions for the Federal Manager

‘Tis the season to set some New Year’s resolutions. Like many ofyou, I usually focus my resolutions around traditional topics likelosing weight, getting fit, spending more time with family or helpingothers. No one can argue with those, but this year why not consideradding some management goals to your 2011 resolutions? I’ve added someprofessional goals toRead… Read more »

Making StatsCan Data Free: Assessing the Cost

Regular readers of my blog will know that I’ve advocated that StatsCan’s data – and particularly its Census data – should be made open (e.g. free, unlicensed, and downloadable in multiple formats). Presently, despite the fact that Canadian tax dollars pay to collect (a sadly diminishing amount, and quality of,) data, it is not open.Read… Read more »

Community Building: How to Write Seismic Emails

Yesterday, I wrote a post about how to literally save lives through strategic social media and email campaigns. I’m a huge believer that email is a thriving and fundamental tool, despite thoughts here and there that email is dead. Rubbish, for the foreseeable future. Given that, here are some best practices on How to WriteRead… Read more »

GovLoop now lives in Palo Alto, CA

You know a community is rocking when a room is painted in its honor in Palo Alto, CA. We’re that community! Ning, the platform GovLoop is built on, dedicated a room to us. Here you go folks. GOVLOOP Favorite

City of SF takes its master address system open source

Reposted from CivicCommons.org, by Karl Fogel We’re pleased to announce that San Francisco’s Enterprise Addressing System has now been open sourced! EAS is a web-based system for managing the city’s master database of physical addresses, tied to Assessor’s parcels and the City’s street centerline network. We posted a short screencast of EAS in action aRead… Read more »

Welcome new NCDD members!

The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation gained 74 great new members in the last few months: 67 individual members and 7 organizations. Please welcome the following new members to the network! If you’d like to connect with any of them, search for them in the NCDD members network to find their contact info andRead… Read more »