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Converting the Dissenter; Part Three

As a follow-up to last week’s blog https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1l6nclusxlq6q, this week’s entry concludes our discussion of the tactics that the Change Management Champion (CMC) can utilize to mitigate change resistors, also known as dissenters. As mentioned in my previous two blogs on this topic, frequently a combination of mitigation approaches may need to be utilized togetherRead… Read more »

Alpha conversation

This is how conversations work, or rather how one conversation played out on twitter this morning. Tricky subject, no right answer, constructive discussion.* But perhaps most important of all, those issues are being discussed in public for a government proof of concept which hasn’t yet even been launched. It is that which is more radicalRead… Read more »

Reinventing Professional Education in the Internet Age

Greetings from the Faculty Board Meeting of ACS Education, the part of the Australian Computer Society which provides education to computer professionals. There are about 30 people around a table in the ACS South Australia Branch office. Each person has a laptop connected to the Internet to get the “papers” for the meeting from aRead… Read more »

Data.gov in the classroom: Government 2.0 syllabus

Data.gov in the classroom features resources for K-12, Universities, and Education in the World. Among them is Karim Lakhani’s Data.gov case study developed at Harvard Business School, Beth Noveck’s Democracy Design Workshop Do Tank, and now also my Government 2.0 syllabus. I have been teaching this class for the last three years and the onlineRead… Read more »

Reinventing Professional Education in the Internet Age

Greetings from the Faculty Board Meeting of ACS Education, the part of the Austrlaian Computer Society which provides education to computer professionals. There are about 30 people around a table in the ACS South Australia Branch office. Each person has a laptop connected to the Internet to get the “papers” for the meeting from aRead… Read more »

What if the public could watch and hear you work?

A recent article in Government Technology reported that a Florida mayor, concerned about someone stealing items from his office, installed $8,000 worth of surveillance cameras in his office – at taxpayer expense. Leaving the details of this case (and the related investigation) aside, the story brings up an intriguing question. How would any of usRead… Read more »

A Sampling of Principles for Public Engagement

Here are some sets of principles we collected to help inform the creation of the Core Principles for Public Engagement (2009)… Effective Deliberative Public Engagement: Nine Principles (from the National Consumer Council & Involve.org) Nine Principles: The process makes a difference. The process is transparent. The process has integrity. The process is tailored to theRead… Read more »

Who to know – Mother’s Day edition

From BeltWiki Blog on WhoRunsGov by The Washington Post If you have not sent your a Mother’s Day gift, there is still time (barely). But you deserve to get hit with those Saturday shipping fees. Didn’t mom always warn you about procrastinating? Because WhoRunsGov profiles are reserved for the most powerful policy makers in theRead… Read more »

Measuring social media influence on Capitol Hill

Here’s a snippet from my new post at WhoRunsGov at the Washington Post. Click on the link below to read the entire thing. In the not-so-distant past, a big concern for a PR firm or pollster was “is their client’s message getting across?” In the social media world, the new question is “Are they influential?”Read… Read more »