Project Management

Change by Us Seattle User No. 1

Jonathan Chen, manager of Danny Woo Garden is our user No. 1. Today the Code for America Seattle team has two big announcements. The first is that this morning we launched a beta version of Change by Us Seattle, a new application to support volunteerism. Change by Us is an online marketplace for community projects.Read… Read more »

Detroit, Macon & Philly Selected for CfA 2012

(Crossposted from the Knight Foundation Blog) As we are nearing the end of Code for America’s inaugural fellowship year, we’re excited to announce the forward-thinking city governments we will be partnering with in 2012. Today we’re honored to share that the cities of Detroit, Macon and Philadelphia have been selected as partners for the CodeRead… Read more »

CFC Live Blogging: Success Stories, Maura Harty from Make-A-Wish Foundation

Maura Harty, President and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Make-A-Wish Foundation of America Maura Harty served for 27 years as a foreign service offer, mentioned the privelage of being a public servant and is thrilled to be speaking today. She was extremely grateful and asked the audience to give themselves a round of applauseRead… Read more »

The Future of ECM: The Elephant in the Room

Here’s an excellent post from my colleague Glenn Gibson, thinking about the size of enterprise projects and how we might tackle those given this new era of reduced staff and budget… Question: How do you eat an elephant?Answer: One bite at a time I first heard this amusing question six years ago from an ECMRead… Read more »

Pew Study – 28% of American adults use mobile & social location-based services

Pretty cool new survey from Pew Internet. 28% of American adults use mobile and social location-based services More than a quarter (28%) of all American adults use mobile or social location-based services of some kind. This includes anyone who takes part in one or more of the following activities: 28% of cell owners use phonesRead… Read more »

Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicles to Go Electric

America’s armed forces are certainly taking renewable energy seriously. From the development of new fuels to the integration of solar photovoltaics into units serving in war zones, the various branches of the military are embracing renewable energy technology, often while simultaneously testing its limits. Recently, we read about another green government project going on withinRead… Read more »

Cleaning up the user interface

My dishwasher has a bit of whatever the white goods equivalent is of bling. It has a display panel on the front conveying mostly irrelevant information fairly inefficiently. I assume it is intended to communicate whizzy modernity; it certainly doesn’t communicate much useful information. It cycles through three screens in, only one of which tellsRead… Read more »