What is the state of the open data movement? Yesterday, during my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk from last year’s conference. Here’s my take of where we are today (I’ll post/link to a video of the talk asRead… Read more »
GoTriangle (NC) launched a regional multi-agency tool that provides real-time bus location updates for six transit properties in the Triangle area. Original post
ECONOMY HITS K STREET. The Hill. “After a banner year in 2010, many of K Street’s biggest shops have seen their lobbying revenue decline this year, a trend that has continued in recent months.” LOBBYING Q3 NUMBERS. Here. SOLYNDRA LOBBYIST ISSUE. Story here. “The Glover Park Group LLC did $20,000 of work for Solyndra afterRead… Read more »
As you may remember from our “walk through” guide to help stimulate ideas for our competition, we started off by looking at what skills people wanted to learn and share and then onto what would make it easier for them to use technology and finally onto how people wanted to make their neighbourhood a betterRead… Read more »
Thematic Literary Magazine, Issue 3 My short story, The Really Real World, has been published in Thematic Literary Magazine. It was in the “smitten” issue and is a darkly comic look at how the quest for fame ruins a budding romance. I wrote it after The Real World came to DC. They didn’t seem toRead… Read more »
This 2011 report by Tina Nabatchi and Cynthia Farrar for the Deliberative Democracy Consortium explores what elected officials know and think about public deliberation, as well as what they need to know to assess the potential value of public deliberation as a governance tool. Data from interviews with twenty-four state legislators and senior staff forRead… Read more »
The following is a guest post from Douglas Naegele, President at Infield Health – a mobile health company based in Washington, DC. Doug recounts his experience as an invited attendee at the very first Twitter inspired Let’s Move event. You can follow Doug on Twitter as @textandshout I recently had the pleasure of attending theRead… Read more »
Dr. Francis S. Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), overseeing an institution that is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. A physician-geneticist, Collins is noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 withRead… Read more »
The vehicle is interesting, but we’re not sure how we feel about the intersections at the 2:10-minute mark. Original post
Today we are launching my new eBook The Short Guide to Becoming a PMP. As part of this launch we are offering the following discount coupons to all new customers Product Coupon Code Discount Price PM PrepCast FreeGuide1 $15 $89.97 PM Exam Simulator FreeGuide2 $15 $74.99 PM Formulas FreeGuide3 $9 $20.97 PM FlashCards FreeGuide4 $9Read… Read more »