For those outside of Chicago, you may not be familiar with the Mayor’s new transition website. It’s pretty awesome. You can submit your resume if you’re interested in being part of the new administration. More importantly, the site is also letting citizens submit proposals and features and interactive page that lets citizens comment on suggestions.Read… Read more »
In the wake of the recent disasters in Japan, many organizations used Twitter to raise donations for the relief effort overseas. However, Microsoft’s Bing pledged $100,000 and received a lot of criticism for their generous pledge. On March 12, Bing tweeted “How can you #SupportJapan? For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan quakeRead… Read more »
Steve Ressler, Founder and President of GovLoop, presented an interesting perspective recently in his monthly Government Technology column. Quoting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who defines “hacking” as “an approach to find a shortcut to solve a complex problem,” Ressler noted that he “encourages city and state officials to think about how to hack their cityRead… Read more »
From a small local business to a government agency with international reach, to succeed online, every organization needs a solid plan to create, deliver, and govern its content. Government agencies are some of the largest and highest-profile organizations out there, and have a wealth of content—so having a strategy for getting the most out ofRead… Read more »
One week ago, I had the opportunity to deliver a 4-hour workshop for the Greater Los Angeles Federal Executive Board (FEB). Over the past couple years, I have delivered a variation of this “101” workshop for: Boston, Chicago and Honolulu FEBs California and Texas Certified Public Managers programs (mostly city and county employees) Federal agenciesRead… Read more »
I can’t believe it – we’ve finished our series of four regional Local by Social events. They were a blast. Really good fun. Super innovative and productive. We did two with a neighbourhood focus, one with data and app focus and the final one in Blackburn with a transparency and engagement focus. But they wereRead… Read more »
As a follow on to the CKO/CHCO and KM discussions the other day that lamented some of the technical and policy gaps in implementing enterprise knowledge and learning solutions, just captured the following from Twitter which may be of interest to folks here to make connections on #opengov projects. See also: http://geeksforwonks.org/
PNNL has really been on our radar lately. We recently did a podcast interview with Graham Parker, Manager of the High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program at PNNL, and now we’d like to share another one of their energy-saving technologies – the Grid Friendly Charger Controller. One of the challenges to the widespread adoption ofRead… Read more »
Every so often, Recruitment 411 will feature a guest blogger. Today’s guest blogger is Shawn, who manages the IRS Careers website. We designed the IRS Careers website so visitors can easily find information about IRS jobs. The site includes four focus areas: pre-college, current students & recent grads, and experienced professionals, as well as peopleRead… Read more »
On March 24, 2PM, Eastern, FICM will be hosting a presentation on a variety of intranet topics and voted upon by the greater FICM community. Check out all of the ideas, comments and votes on the FICM IdeaScale site (http://ficm.ideascale.com). Using a “lightning round” format, FICM Steering Committee and other group members will present forRead… Read more »