Earlier this year, Cook County released “Look at Cook,” a budget visualization tool to help citizens understand how the county spends taxpayer dollars. As the site says, residents “keep asking, ‘Where exactly does our money go?’” Look at Cook attempts to help answer that question with spending breakdowns by area and year, as well asRead… Read more »
Co-Chairs of the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood — and the lead city partners on our Boston project — have been named two of nine “Public Officials of the Year” by Governing! New Urban Mechanics is an agency within Boston’s Mayor’s office tasked with finding new approaches toRead… Read more »
My colleague, Gadi Ben-Yehuda, is deep into a discussion about using hashtags on Twitter and of strategies for broadcasting to certain audiences. His use of certain terms raised a few hackles, and he asked me to share my thoughts. Once I reviewed the conversation, I have to agree with the Tribe of the Raised Hackles.Read… Read more »
In the midst of a meeting with one of our sections yesterday I had an interesting conversation. The meeting consisted of some people who work with service users. I wont tell you which one, it’s not relevant and it’s not fair. But in this meeting there were two very digitally literate people and two notRead… Read more »
Http://LeonardSipes.Com The debate is whether social media is a conversation or a one way form of communication. I argue that it’s a matter of quality versus quantity. Responding to Comments–Three Cases: I did a presentation on social media before leadership of a federal government agency. There was a point where we discussed the logistics ofRead… Read more »
To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, military theorist John Boyd can’t get no respect. The latest attack on the Loopy One, published in Armed Forces Journal, again mischaracterizes the OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide Act) Loop: This notion that there are specific knowable causes that are linked to corresponding effects dominates military thinking and manifests in our drive to gatherRead… Read more »
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted The MetaLex Document Server, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Hoekstra describes the technology of the MetaLex Document Server, a new service that provides free public access toRead… Read more »
Yesterday, I lead a Webinar for GSA’s Web Manager’s University in which I covered the basics of Twitter of Facebook. Alice Lipowicz of Federal Computer Week was in attendance and wrote a synopsis of the session, which itself sparked a conversation between myself, Ari Herzog, Alex Howard, and a few others on Twitter. There wereRead… Read more »
OMB Creates New Grants Policy Council The Office of Management and Budget has just created a new Council on Financial Assistance Reform to ”foster more efficient and effective federal financial management.” Read the full post from Management Concepts Grants Blog
Back in April, President Obama issued an executive order directing agencies to step up their efforts to improve customer service. Whatever happened? The Executive Order gave agencies until the last week of October to provide their plans to the Office of Management and Budget, and last week the plans were delivered and posted on OMB’sRead… Read more »