The steps necessary to making government more transparent are often not that expensive or cumbersome. What is needed more than anything is a change of mindset among government officials. Several civic organizations including Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public Interest Research GroupRead… Read more »
Hi Everyone, I have a small favour to ask you. I’ve started to work informally with a small Startup based in Waterloo. We are developing a product that helps people turn their digital social media footprint into a weekly mail out to family, friends, and/or stakeholders. We’ve reached the point where we need some betaRead… Read more »
Last week, we moderated a session on what the research shows on mobile use–and our regular discussion about whether people prefer mobile web over native apps. Our speakers, Aaron Smith from Pew Internet and David Metcalf from Univ. of Central Florida, had pros and cons for both approaches, but ultimately agreed that, It Depends. eMarketerRead… Read more »
Chris Seper (Cleveland, OH) — What is TEDMED? That’s an odd question, if you’re coming from the perspective the event has been around for years. But this is not last year’s TEDMED (it’s not as heavily associated with the thought-leadership series TED as you may think). Last year, Priceline.com founder Jay Walker bought TEDMED forRead… Read more »
I’m really excited about a book that’s about to be published by the Kettering Foundation, called Democratizing Deliberation. We’re going to be working with Kettering to engage NCDDers around the book’s content, because we feel the book covers topics of great import to our field. It’s always challenging for practitioners to find the time toRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – At the University of Florida – perhaps best known for its championship Gators football teams – innovation isn’t the first thing on people’s minds. But that football team famously invented what you now know as Gatorade. And now they’re building Innovation Square, which they hope spearheads their town of GainesvilleRead… Read more »
Please visit http://govstories.tumblr.com to post your story and share your knowledge with fellow public servants! I’m sure you’ve heard this time and time again but the baby boomers are retiring and several problems are going to be created because of that. One of the biggest problems we face in government is the loss of knowledgeRead… Read more »
Social Connect via: When I started writing this blog, I wanted to get people thinking about the public service in different ways. If you read about a good idea, I encourage you to take it back to your office and try to implement it. As an innovator, you will face challenges. Some ideas will flopRead… Read more »
Datameer provides a big data solution that focuses on perhaps the most important niche in this growing domain, the end-user. Here is an introduction from their website: Datameer leverages the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop to deliver an end-user focused analytics platform for big data. Datameer overcomes Hadoop’s complexity and lack of toolsRead… Read more »
UNDER-ESTIMATED COSTS = UNDER-ESTIMATED RISK This was originally published on the Tri Tuns blog. It’s fairly well-known that we weigh many different factors when making a buying decision – some logical, some emotional. When purchasing cloud computing, it is easy to fixate on the most obvious factor – the monthly fee – while developing aRead… Read more »