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 »
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 »
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 »
Daimler car-sharing subsidiary car2go may expand to Washington (DC). According to Greater Greater Washington, the program may bring 300 cars to the nation’s capital as early as this fall. Car2go’s dynamic model differs from conventional car-sharing programs like Zipcar in several ways. Zipcar (and other programs) have dedicated spaces for each car in the fleet;Read… Read more »
This post is a discussion about making bug tracking in Bugzilla for the Mozilla project more efficient. However, I believe it is applicable to any open source project or even companies or governments running service desks (think 311). Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog post titled: Some thoughts on improving Bugzilla inRead… Read more »
OpenCongress — the free, open source, U.S. federal legislative current awareness and eparticipation service, sponsored by the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation — has launched two new tools for enabling citizen engagement and political communication. David Moore of the Participatory Politics Foundation — and a member of our community — is one ofRead… Read more »
There is a growing amount of discussion about the use of “badges” in education. I’ve been following a few strands of discussion on the topic and this morning something clicked for me and I began tweeting a little about the stream of thought I had on the subject. Some people on Twitter thought it mightRead… Read more »
Today I had the chance to go to the Department of Defense All Service Social Media Conference (DODASSMC) at Georgetown University’s Clarendon Campus. If you are a community manager or interested in connecting with people running social media programs, you should for sure check out the group. Today there were four speakers, everyone did aRead… Read more »
IT’s HERE!!!!! This is it guys…Next Generation of Government #2 is upon us. This is your community, your conference, and your awesomeness. I’ve been giddy all week with the epicness on the horizon. That said, sometimes it helps to take a breather and step back before 2 days of nonstop synapse firing to get yourRead… Read more »
Quick thoughts on tonight’s discussion: There are the politicians and there is the government. There is a distinct separation. Government social media accounts should promote and support services. The politician accounts should be used to support the special initiatives and agendas. Government and services are continuous. Initiatives and agendas have (or should have) a clearRead… Read more »