Day 17 Alley reconstruction project Well I waited until later tonight to post because we had a public meeting tonight at city hall for an alley reconstruction project. The city has over the last several years replaced their alleys with concrete pavement, and this one is the last in this particular neighborhood. We completed theRead… Read more »
The following is a guest post from Jayme Hummer, associate at The Path of the Blue Eye Project, an innovative health marketing/communications initiative. In 2009, we launched a very special initiative designed to aid collaboration and knowledge sharing/acquisition in health marketing communications called the Path of the Blue Eye Project. Since then, we have beenRead… Read more »
Cities and states are increasingly turning to the internet to allow citizens to participate in government. While it’s often easier for people to send in a comment online rather than attend a public meeting, local governments are still trying to figure out the best way to engage in crowdsourcing. According to a recent article inRead… Read more »
Downtown DC, including GovLoop’s office, was evacuated this afternoon after a 5.9 earthquake hit near Richmond, VA. Did you feel it where you live? Our building was definitely shaking, and there were some cracks in the stairwell. According to Twitter, people reported shaking as far away as Toronto and Muncie, IN. USGS has a coolRead… Read more »
Yesterday I posted David Shumaker’s article: The Value Proposition of Embedded Librarianship. Today, I want to continue on that theme with this article by Mary Talley, co-author of the SLA Funded Research Project: Models of Embedded Librarianship, 2009 for this article: Rethinking Value: How Embedded Roles Makes Us Valuable. This article was originally published inRead… Read more »
by Dani Fitts, San Francisco ’11 As I approach the final stretch of this year-long Fellowship, I have been confronted with the reality of the public sector job market. Although I will spend the next two to three years sequestered away in the academic world, I fear that when I am re-released into the realRead… Read more »
Last month, Encore.org and She Writes ran a story competition. The challenge: in 250-words-or-less, answer these questions: “Did you reinvent yourself in midlife? Have you had an “encore” career, as a writer or in some other form? What is your story of rebirth?” The inspiration: a new book by Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman titledRead… Read more »
By Abigail Omojola, 2011 Baton Rouge Fellow Unlike Alexander Aldrich, the Executive Director of the Vermont Arts Council, I have not been following the debate which resulted in Kansas becoming the first state to eliminate state appropriations for arts programs. Nonetheless, I am angry. I am angry that for some reason you truly believe thatRead… Read more »
by Megan Degeneffe, SF2011 Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are the sort of people who are important to making government work. Brooke and Caitlyn run Little City Gardens, a for-profit experiment to find out if growing food in the city can be profitable. The problem came when Little City Gardens attempted to expand and discoveredRead… Read more »
by Luke Fuller (SF2011) I visited Sacramento four months ago with my Fellowship cohort to meet with policy makers and political specialists, and to ask some uncomfortable questions about the state of the State. A $26B budget deficit, political gridlock, a frumpy economy, a mess of jurisdictional mishaps and dozens of uncoordinated populist initiatives seeminglyRead… Read more »