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Weekly Round-up – July 30, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Hopefully, the former. On Mashable, Zachery Sniderman lists four ways various governments are using social media “for better or worse“ I bet they’re still not working remotely. Ethan Klapper reports on White House staff holding “Twitter office hours.” And was this thier mouse? Marine General James Cartwright said that “A long-standing reliance onRead… Read more »

1.USA.gov Hack Day Cheat Sheet

We’re really excited about tomorrow’s 1.USA.gov hack day events. We’re expecting over 50 people to attend the event here in San Diego and I know our partners in DC, NYC, and San Francisco are expecting big turnouts as well. If you’re going to the event in San Diego, go meet our Lindsay who will beRead… Read more »

Columbus, Ohio Advances Policy-Making with Legislative Automation

by Shezronne Zaccardi, IT Specialist, City of Columbus, OH In 2002, the City of Columbus, Ohio, knew it was time for a change. We needed to move our workflows into the digital age to eliminate bottlenecks and speed up the delivery of information across our organization and to our citizens. Since implementing Granicus’ Legislative ManagementRead… Read more »

A manifesto for liberating data

My book, “Data Dynamite: how liberating information will transform our world,” is in print! Because I argue in the book that liberating data can have the same transformative effect that Martin Luther had translating the Bible into vernacular German and printing it instead of copying it, I ended the book with my variation on Luther’sRead… Read more »

Research and Best Practices eNewsletter

Research Investment decision-making (12/2010) –The Investment Management Standard is theVictorian Government’scommon-sense approach to shaping investments and making investment decisions. The underlying principles of the Standard include: a focus on the investment benefits (as opposed to finding solutions to a problem), use of plain language, simple concepts and transparency. Transforming Government (07/2011) – Governments across EuropeRead… Read more »

Facilitation and Collaboration

I watched a “professional facilitator” absolutely waste 16 person-hours. The opportunity made me so mad, it took a while to figure out what I think. Here’s what I think: Unless you are working by yourself, you need enthusiastic buy-in from your team to get superior performance. Taking time to get everyone on board is usuallyRead… Read more »

Gig.U to expand high-speed broadband in university towns

A group of 30 research universities nationwide are partnering together to help spread broadband to the areas around their campuses. The project is called Gig.U and will bring 1Gbps access to localities around each school. The group hopes that by providing this access they’ll be able to increase economic development and attract start-ups to theirRead… Read more »

What is RSS?

Yup, they’re still coming. This one tries to explain the mystery that is RSS. Enjoy! If you can’t see it embedded below, you can download the PDF version from the Kind of Digital website. What is RSS? View more documents from Kind of Digital Possibly related posts: What is Flickr? What is LinkedIn? What isRead… Read more »