Last week, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez invited the public to submit ideas on how to cut waste and reduce the size of government. Gov. Martinez’s office set up a dedicated email account, [email protected], for residents to make budget suggestions. In what the governor hopes will be a call to action, [email protected] will allow NewRead… Read more »
by Jay Allen (ADL). Jay serves as the Instructional Design Team Lead for the ADL Initiative. Jay retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after flying helicopters for over 16 years and serving as the Coast Guard’s ADL Program Manager. He joined the ADL Initiative after three years as the Department of Homeland Security’s Enterprise LearningRead… Read more »
If there’s a word that’s getting thrown around A LOT lately, it’s “cloud.” Seriously, it had to be one of the most over-used words in 2010 and it’s looking to be an even more prevalent part of government talk in 2011. In fact, last week an article in Government Technology article entitled “Top 10 PredictionsRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. #UKGC11: Flickr, Wikipedia and Open Streetmap for local authorities – Great write up of an interesting session from @abeeken Reworking the public sector | Public sector pm – Notes on a great topic at #ukgc11 Uk GovCamp 2011 | Partridgej’s Blog – Nice summary ofRead… Read more »
Since moving house back in October, my local government district is South Holland, in south Lincolnshire. I’m no stranger to it – this is where I grew up, before leaving to go to University. It’s good to see the local council is engaging in some online engagement activity in the near future. Firstly, they areRead… Read more »
So I’m trying to take our official Amver blog and make it Section 508 accessible, not just compliant. The challenge is finding a cheap or free video closed captioning solution. I’ve tried the YouTube cc function, but can’t seem to find a “keep it turned on all the time” default setting. I’m also looking forRead… Read more »
Web Analytics rock star Avinash Kaushik writes: Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I suffer from OOD. Outcomes Obsession Disorder. I am seeing a therapist for it. The way OOD manifests itself is that in every website and web business I work with I am obnoxiously persistent in helping identify the desired outcomesRead… Read more »
Its estimated 2010 saw 107,000,000,000,000 or (10.7 x 10^13) email messages sent world wide. Not text messages, nor tweets, nor blogs or web posts. Just email. Source: http://blogs.sacbee.com/ticket/archives/2011/01/294-billion-mes.html Now can we talk? Are we becoming a generation of readers or writers? How many emails are read, how many are spam or The ratio of emailsRead… Read more »
GovCamp this Saturday was a delight, thanks to the wonderful people who attended, those that helped out, and the good folk at Microsoft who looked after us all so well. This year there has been so much written online that I don’t know what else I can add! The easiest place to go for contentRead… Read more »
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city will be launching its own internal collaboration community last week. The community will run on Spigit’s crowdsourcing software and represents the largest city project of its type. The Mayor announced the project as part of his State of the City Address. CivSource spoke with SpigitRead… Read more »