The Chicago Law.gov Workshop will be held 21 May 2010 at The Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The workshop is co-sponsored by CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction and The Oyez Project. Click here for the conference program. The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #lawgov. Click here for information aboutRead… Read more »
Collaboration has come a long and I do mean a LONG way in the last 30 years. So with all the advances out there what is the single most important one? You can vote here: http://ideas.govloop.com/forums/56138-moc-30-years-of-collaboration I mean there are several to chose from: E-mail, Internet, Cell Phone and Shared Drives, and if we haven’tRead… Read more »
This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com I noticed this morning that someone reached my blog by searching on the terms “leadership and disappointment.” No doubt they found my page onLessons from a CIA Manager, where Lesson 12 quotes Ron Heifetz on his insight that leadership is disappointing your followers at a rate theyRead… Read more »
About 3-4 years ago I used to think that the requirements of a Local Authority or Public Sector Agencies around content management system (CMS) were pretty complex and could only really be supported by purchasing one of the many high end products out there in the market. I must stress at this point that iRead… Read more »
Amid a disastrous oil spill, a Supreme Court nomination and the ongoing financial regulatory reform debate, some lawmakers will spend a few hours on Wednesday worrying about restrooms. Specifically, restrooms in federal buildings. Crack all the jokes you want, but advocates think it’s a big deal. Most federal buildings are about 40 years old andRead… Read more »
Great article on why Harvard kids go to work to Wall Street and not public service jobs. http://baselinescenario.com/2010/05/04/why-do-harvard-kids-head-to-wall-street/ Short story..not money or work. It’s – the process is straight-forward and easy. Here’s a quote “it is simply easier to get a corporate firm job than any other job. By contrast, it’s hard to get aRead… Read more »
As described in an earlier blog post the BetterBuy Project was launched to bring collaboration, transparency and participation into the federal acquisition process through the use of collaborative processes and technology. Since last October, people from industry, federal, state, local government and private citizens have submitted over 130 ideas on the BetterBuy Project platform. OurRead… Read more »
I propose that all Gov 2.0 people consider the following pilot program: Imagine an online community of all registered U.S. voters. The community would be distributed across county clerk offices. There are about 150 million registered voters, and about 3,100 U.S. counties. Such a national community can be easily piloted: Establish pilot communities in sixRead… Read more »
The Berkeley/SOMA Law.gov Workshop will be held 12 May 2010 at The Mitchell Kapor Foundation in San Francisco, California, USA. Click here for the conference program. The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawgov. Click here for information about the Law.gov legal open government data project.
[Originally published here on cpsrenewal.ca] Last week I volunteered in my daughter’s junior kindergarten class. Afterward I realized that building online communities is not all that different than building trust with a large group of children. In the column below I will speak directly about my experience in the classroom; while in many cases theRead… Read more »