Amir Capriles is the CRM/ERP Strategic Alliances Manager for Microsoft, focusing on the US Public Sector. Amir has been around the public sector for years, nearly 10 years at KPMG and a few years on his own prior to joining Microsoft just over four years ago. Amir is the type of person you need, ifRead… Read more »
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Invitation to Govloop Members : Survey Australian Gov 2.0 Open Declaration
Hi Govloop Colleagues and Friends – I’d like to invite you to take part in our survey on open government. As we ar all active in this space I think doing a survey like this makes sense. Read on. I posted some thoughts around advocacy on OZloop. Probably because while we are all advocates ofRead… Read more »
Four Big Myths of Profile Pictures
The OKCupid blog measures the response rates of different types of photos on their site. Cool data! http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
Local Gov Session at #citycamp – Best Practices/Success Stories
Room for sharing and working together Place to share ideas and move beyond ideas Edmonton – several thousands followers -not just retweet news -actually answer people back City of Tacoma – answer peole back Twitter- Austin – only allow followers…not responses…part of policy -Comm actually tweets…but from department to comm… -Comm team – YouTube andRead… Read more »
Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy [PDF]
The following guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we’ve run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year+ and is structured in such a way that you’ll be able to start your own when the time comes. If you needRead… Read more »
Interview – SF CIO and Tim O’Reilly
Empowering citizens to get stuff done -datasf.com Exec orders – require agencies to get out there. require dep’t heads to do it. 50 peers in big meeting. mayor can call them out. Need someone who gets it. Find pockets of innovation…in city government…and nurture those….so valuable in govt. build and support them. Grassroots army….build andRead… Read more »
Recap from CityCamp Ignite Sessions
Completing the 5 Ignite Session Jen from Code for America – kicked us off…how do we get people to connect, collaborate, vote…Code for America – cool hackers, cool cities…better cities. Teach for America for you New Orleans Data – awesome story of how worked with local govs to get data out around Katrina working withRead… Read more »
Pa.-based Web site aids municipal sales
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/82479722.html Pa.-based Web site aids municipal sales By Kristin E. Holmes Inquirer Staff Writer The sale of a government fire truck in Montgomery County used to be a process teeming with paperwork. The required mailings, bid applications, and newspaper advertising cost money, and often resulted in selling government property on the cheap. The Pottstown-based municibid.comRead… Read more »
I’m Live at CityCamp – You?
I’ll be blogging and taking some videos from the great sessions at CityCamp this weekend in Chicago. Had a great happy hour kick-off today talking to lots of really cool smart people including Kevin from Socrata. If you are here, would love to hear your blog posts, thoughts, and more. For those not here, checkRead… Read more »
Modern Communities – No Longer Exclusive Clubs
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of community and how this applies to the digital world. It is something that a lot of people talk about, but I fear it is from learning the buzz words instead of from real understanding. The concept of a community is not new. In fact it isRead… Read more »