Veronica Ludwig, Chicago IdeaHack organizer and Brigade leader, reveals her five tips for executing an effective civic hackathon. For the past six years I’ve been organizing fundraisers, networking events, unconferences and hackathons. We started the IdeaHack with the Chicago CfA Fellows for Code Across America. The Chicago IdeaHack is an event that brings together leadersRead… Read more »
Today is my last day as a GovLoop fellow; it’s been awesome, and I’m hoping to stay active in the GovLoop community. I’ve learned much about marketing analytics during my time here and have significantly improved my writing skills. The opportunity to help write the social media section of the Communications Guide and writing theRead… Read more »
I just came across an excellent new research report from PWC. It has a rather long name “Next Generation of eservices – CitizenCompass – Enhancing service delivery in the Canadian public sector“, however it’s quite informative nonetheless. Essentially its purpose was to ask Canadians how they are interacting with government now, and how they wouldRead… Read more »
What separates outstanding proposal managers from mediocre ones is the ability to lead their teams in developing winning content on top of running a smooth process. No matter how compliant and attractive the document may be, most often it is the substance that will distinguish a winning proposal from the rest. Many proposal managers relyRead… Read more »
This post was originally published in AOL Gov. To read the entire article by Wyatt Kash, click here. Federal agencies and regional data center operators, including one operated by Amazon Web Services, are still taking stock of the impact of widespread power outages that began Friday night and continue to leave large swaths of greaterRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut off the temporary servers it set up to help victims of the DNSChanger malware on July 9, leading to hundreds of thousands of Internet blackouts. More here. The hacker behind the 1998 penetration of Department of Defense networks inRead… Read more »
Bobby Caudill of Cleversafe is an institution in the federal IT ecosystem. He has a reputation as a great translator between the different languages of technology, mission and policy and his knack in that regard means when he speaks everyone can learn something. We have another chance to hear him discuss the relevance of aRead… Read more »
That nice Mr Briggs has been encouraging me to post some stuff about hardware. As it happens I’ve been trying out a new piece of ultra-modern hi-tech digital equipment. No it’s not a MacBook Air, ChromeBook or even one of them new Google tablets. It is… drum roll… The PowerMonkey Extreme. Which is basically aRead… Read more »
I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the adage ”go where the people go” if you want to connect with customers and service users. I believe it applies equally – if not more – in the virtual world, than the physical world. I don’t pretend to be an expert – far from it – but because IRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Good Things Come in Pairs: One blog post called “Two Reasons Why Municipalities Need a Citizen Engagement Program,” and two sites with social media tools for federal agencies: HHS’s Center for New Media, and a Digital Engagement Guide. But you can break them into thirds. Actually, here’s a third: How to Write theRead… Read more »