Funny Auto-Correct Mishaps
Be very careful when using auto-correct around the office. Original post
Rainmaker 16 – LinkedIn: Your Personal Publicist
Do you show up at your best for other 175 million LinkedIn members?Many posts have been written about developing your profile and contact information for the ‘yellow pages’ of the professional community – the top part of your LinkedIn page. While this is important and you must build a strong profile and history, it isRead… Read more »
Energy Visions Prize – Nominations Accepted Until December 14th
The American Clean Skies will be awarding $250K in these 3 categories: Feature Films and Documentaries Short Videos and Advertising Mobile Phone and Web Applications See http://energyvisionsprize.org/how-to-enter/ – is this speaking to you, or someone you know?
LocalData, the Law, and User Research
Sometimes people ask what it’s like to be a Code for America Fellow and work on things like LocalData. By my expression, they quickly garner that it’s hard work. But as demonstrated by the tale of LocalData user research, it’s also exciting times. LocalData is a toolkit that helps groups collect place-based data. For example,Read… Read more »
A Civic Stack Thought Experiment
It is well known that the Internet protocol suite consists of a stack of layers: the application layer sitting on top of the transport layer, the internet layer, and the link layer. Detailed analysis of the interaction of these layers has yielded insight into the rapid information innovation we’re experiencing as a matter of practiceRead… Read more »
CfA Peer Network
We’re are gathered the Code for America tribe in San Francisco. Our city partners in the fellowship, the leaders of the Brigades in 16 cities, fellows past, present, and future, the companies in our civic accelerator, our funders and supporters, and others who care about reinventing the citizen-government relationship for the 21st century. Two hundredRead… Read more »
Summit Week: Anatomy of A Civic Startup
It’s Summit Week! We at Code for America are pumped to showcase the amazing projects and apps created by the Code for America fellows, their respective partner cities, and, most recently, the Accelerator teams. As the newest additions of the Code for America family, the civic startups in the Accelerator program will be demoing forRead… Read more »
Government tops the list of effective email marketers
For all the claims of government communication being expensive or ineffective compared to the private sector, government has topped the Vision 6 Email Marketing Metrics Report for January – June 2012. Vision 6, an email marketing company based in Queensland, has reported on the email marketing effectiveness of Australian companies and agencies for the lastRead… Read more »
Wisdom of the Clouds at DHS Open Cybersecurity Summit Oct 18 in DC
In 2009 I received a phone call from the Policy Office at the Department of Homeland Security. At the time, I personally did not know a soul at DHS and have never envisioned I would be called upon to share best practices for government open source software projects with the federal government. But there itRead… Read more »
Government Reform: Inspirations from Developing Countries (Part 5)
Several developing countries are making seemingly breathtaking progress in developing performance management frameworks from scratch. What can we learn from them? Today’s focus is on the commonalities in the performance management approaches used across four developing countries. The World Bank seminars this past Spring continue to have me mulling about the progress of the performanceRead… Read more »