Does this sound like you? • You have almost no experience with planning and implementing virtual meetings, but you’re considering offering one in the next 12 months. • You’re not particularly concerned about security issues for virtual meetings. • You know you want your training scheduled between 2-4pm Eastern. Based on the first responses toRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — A few years ago, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, a bar called The Taj opened. What was unusual about it was not so much the fact that it was the only bar in the eastern part of Afghanistan, but the method of payment: data. In brief, if Taj visitors had useful dataRead… Read more »
In my previous blog, I layed out the proverbial “six” pitfalls. Today we’ll go into Pitfall No.1: Expecting HR to own Workforce Planning. Workforce planning is a strategic business effort so let’s put what that means into context. When a company is developing its business plan, where is HR in the process? When an organizationRead… Read more »
Last week’s @GovLoop round table conversation on Reimagining Customer Service in Government highlighted all of the unique and [in some cases] extreme things President Obama’s Executive Order mandated our government agencies to do in the name of customer service. The catch? No $$. So Moderator and INSIDER Chris Dorobek asked: how did the @GovLoop groupRead… Read more »
As our team of three Philadelphia fellows met with city officials and local organizations across the city, we heard the number 42 over and over. No, we weren’t hitchiking across the galaxy. Forty-two is the percentage of Philadelphians without home internet access according to a 2010 poll by the Pew Internet & American Life ProjectRead… Read more »
On 16 May 2012 I attended, with Alex Olesker and defense contractor Robert Caruso the Atlantic Council/Cyber Conflict Studies Association’s event “Lessons From Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops.” Jason Healey of ACUS/CCSA moderated a discussion between the ODNI’s Steven R. Chabinsky, Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry, the State Department’s Christopher Painter. Alex has alreadyRead… Read more »
Associate Professor Axel Bruns, who has previously done marvelous work mapping Australian blogs and tracking social media activity around the Queensland bushfires, has released his team’s latest research on mapping the Australian Twittersphere. Drawing (slightly paraphrased) from the joint CCI and Queensland University of Technology media release: With as many as two million Australians nowRead… Read more »
Sometimes simply talking about a concept doesn’t do it justice. Often it takes seeing something tangible to drive the point home. While we talk about agile development and more effective use of technology in addressing civic issues, when we see it in practice we begin to see what is actually possible, and understand the powerRead… Read more »
When we started working on Brigade we were really excited and we got a lot of other people excited, too. We burst onto the scene with a bunch of activity and a web site. Meaningful, sustainable outcomes emerged from our initial sprint. Open San Diego deployed Azavea’s Open Data Catalog and now there are 413Read… Read more »
Paul Mellor Quick, what did you have for lunch last Tuesday? To whom did you send your last e-mail yesterday? What did you get from the in-laws last Christmas? OK, granted, you may NOT want to remember that, but you get my point. Now more than ever, we live in an information overload type ofRead… Read more »