Ride On adds real-time info
Montgomery County’s Ride On (MD) is testing a system that lets riders track the location of their bus on an online map. Original post
Taking care of ourselves, other people and our world
We’ve invited James Togut from The Good Life For All to guest blog for us as the winner of the best idea for the “Help People Help Each Other” Challenge in our Competition (if you were thinking the competition is over, think again, we’ve now launched the second half which is for designers and developersRead… Read more »
DC/SLA Chapter and Military Libraries Group Event: Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Floods – Who Knew? Disaster Planning & Information Facilities
As seen on the DC/SL listserv: Join the DC/SLA Chapter and Military Libraries Group for an interesting evening of expert information and advice on Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011 Register now! The way things are going, you just never know when you will need your Disaster Plan. Members cost (includes DC/SLA, DCLA, LLSDC, ASIST) – $15;Read… Read more »
A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer – Day 64
Day 64 Culvert Lining Project Today was somewhat of a continuation of the issues that started yesterday with our culvert project. Tomorrow I am meeting with the contractor and giving him the detailed structural design that we received today from our consultant. The contractor will have to determine if the work shown was what heRead… Read more »
Signing up for our Newsletters and Tech Reports
Our premier publication is our monthly technology review. Every month we send this to over 6000 technology thought leaders. This monthly summarizes reporting from the CTOvision.com blog as well as tech trends from the IT industry. The monthly also provide links to our technology assessments. Other products include our Daily CTOvision.com summary, the Daily Fedcyber.comRead… Read more »
Montana starts Medicaid pilot
Six clinics in Montana will be the subject of a new, federal coordinated care pilot. The clinics are located in Helena, Missoula, Bozeman, Livingston, Great Falls and Libby and will get extra money for every Medicare patient they see. The money will go to create coordinated care programs for these patients. The coordinated care programRead… Read more »
Budget Transparency & Visualization Tool, Look at Cook, Open Sourced
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 »
Boston’s “Mechanics” Named Public Officials of the Year
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 »
Organizing the Commons
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 »
A girl walks into a shop….
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 »