Beyond MetroCard: MTA unveils vision for new farecards
The MTA (NY) is outlining goals for a new fare collection system in a meeting with more than 70 technology, telecommunications and financial companies. Original post
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Mobile Health 2011 – Mapping the Uncharted
Susannah Fox provided a powerful analogy for mobile health at the start of the Mobile Health 2011 conference last week at Stanford. She spoke of individuals moving between the kingdom of the healthy and the kingdom of the ill and when we find ourselves (or our loved ones) in that unfortunate second kingdom, we graspRead… Read more »
Democracy Implemented in XML
All 110 years of transcripts of parliamentary proceedings are now available for the Australian Parliament as search-able web content. Hansard, as the record of the Senate and House of Representatives, is known, display by default in HTML, but can be downloaded as XML (under a Creative Commons licence) for analysis.Here is an example. Starting atRead… Read more »
Geospatial & place-based public management – Forum on May 20th
The National Academy of Public Administration will be hosting a Forum on Place-Based Public Management on Friday, May 20, 2011. The centerpiece of this forum will be a Panel of federal and private-sector leaders that will (1) discuss lessons learned in developing and implementing place-based approaches to public management; and (2) identify the key challengesRead… Read more »
We’re Here To Sell Fish
Several years ago I worked for a small software company. My job wastech support. People would have questions, call a number, and my jobwas supposed to have answers for them. This company offered thissupport at no extra charge, setting itself aside from the rest of theindustry. But if it cost nothing for them, would theyRead… Read more »
VA Officials Detail Acquisition Efforts
Authored by Sean Tucker “The metrics say we’re the best large-scale health care organization in the world.” “But if you look at Facebook posts, it turns out we’re not universally popular for the services we provide.” That, Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told a crowd of IT industry leaders, is theRead… Read more »
Twitter tools for you to use…
We are very fortunate to have a very clever developer on hand who created some incredibly useful Twitter tools for us. Even better, we put them out as open source code on GitHub for you to use. But what do these tools do and why should you be interested in them? Backup your tweets onRead… Read more »
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Cross-posted from Wired to Share In case you missed my excessive tweets and Facebook posts over the past few days, it’s now public that I’m leaving City of San Francisco to join Jim Gilliam and Jesse Haff’s 3dna, the company behind Act.ly and NationBuilder. I will be the “chief organizer” for NationBuilder, evangelizing the tool,Read… Read more »
5 minute post – when is an app needed?
I’m going to start a new experiment with this blog. 5 minute posts. 5 minutes to write them, hopefully only 5 minutes to read them. I’ve been talking about apps a lot recently. I’ve just read Digital by Default by SOCITM in which it states that it’s little flash up survey dialogue box responses sayRead… Read more »
Open Government TV (OGTV) Seeking Assistant Social Media Director
Head of Social Media Communities 4 OGTV.pdf Civil servants. Non-profits, utilities, Authorities, corporations, and government agencies. All need to navigate the new media. In addition to effectively promoting cause campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and public engagement drives with persuasive Facebook and Twitter campaigns, our government social media team, led by digital communications specialist Stephanie Noble ofRead… Read more »