By Kord Davis Cloud computing and data center infrastructure providers are realizing more and more what Dion Hinchcliffe pointed out to me months ago during an interview for Ethics of Big Data. Namely that the physical manifestation and configuration of their architecture can be viewed as a direct, real-world expression of their organizational values. WhatRead… Read more »
The confetti has fallen, the balloons have been released and the adoring crowds are gone. The moment that every candidate hopes to face is here—victory. Yet, this the point at which successful candidates must pivot from election year warrior to genteel statesman or woman. The challenge for so many elected officials is that they rarelyRead… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by one of the city’s near me to sit on an advisory board around the creation of their Digital Government strategy. For me the meeting was good since I felt that a cohort of us on the advisory board were really pushing the city into a placeRead… Read more »
Hoorah. For the third time in three years there will be an unconference for those in and around local government in the West Midlands. Called Hyper WM this half day event has grown from being a half germ of an idea to something a bit big a bit splendid and I’m proud to be involvedRead… Read more »
Jason Fried on “Why work doesn’t happen at work.” Audience and Theme Mr. Fried is speaking mostly towards the non-managerial working professional crowd. Structure and Style Mr. Fried’s structure is a straight-forward Attention-Problem-Solution format. Mr. Fried primarily uses colloquialisms, rhetorical questions, and casual analogies. Best Practices I like Mr. Fried’s use of analogy, such asRead… Read more »
Following up on yesterday’s election, a member of our team asked me to write up some thoughts around the meaning of citizenship and democracy. We talk often not only how our work is about government and not politics and how we’re trying just as hard to reinvent citizenship as much as bureaucracy. But what doesRead… Read more »
We like campaigns at Code for America. Campaigns provide us motivation, inspiration, and support for reaching shared objectives and goals. Each of our Brigade campaigns is designed to direct energy in support one of our five activities. Each of those activities advances our strategic outcomes. Our summer campaign, Open Impact, was about advocating for changesRead… Read more »
It’s an interesting time to be at Code for America right now. November marks the formal beginning of the “transition” phase for the 2012 Fellowship Program. Fellows are hard at work transitioning their applications, transitioning the relationships they’ve established in City Hall and in their communities – and transitioning themselves into exciting new chapters inRead… Read more »
by Marisa Ellison, Competitions Director for the National Association of Government Communicators and Customer Relations Manager for the Missouri Department of Transportation (Northeast District) If you’re like me, when you sign up for something, you’re in it for the long haul. You don’t give 50% or 75%…you give 110%. As communicators and public relations professionals,Read… Read more »
For Actions There are three conditions an action has to satisfy to be considered valuable. You have to get it right the first time, The thing you are working on has to change physically (work added), and The customer has to care. One out of three or two out of three do not qualify asRead… Read more »