Today, we celebrate the strands of our history that made us red, white, and blue, Betsy Ross’s iconic work: Old Glory. Today is Flag Day. As it abundantly obvious, we at Code for America are big fans. (Just look at the logo.) Our flag was designed to illustrate how we came together as different statesRead… Read more »
Last week, Andrew McLaughlin presented at the Personal Democracy Forum — a conference exploring and analyzing technology’s impact on politics and government — why and how we’re building a Civic Commons. Video from Andrew’s talk was posted online; check it out below: Original post
For a long time I’ve been thinking about just how much Github has revolutionized open source. Yes, it has made managing the code base significantly easier but its real impact has likely been on the social aspects of managing open source. Github has rebooted how the innovation cycle in open source while simultaneously raising theRead… Read more »
As I ponder topics for my blog, I often look to issues that are coming up with my clients, family, friends, or those with whom I have recently interacted. I enjoy looking at shared stories and themes, and just like Twitter, my experience has taught me that there are trending topics in life. The oneRead… Read more »
We had a lot of fun working with the team from I Wear Your Shirt. We have great t-shirts and this team of t-shirt wearers do some wacky things in their promotion of the companies they work with. We thought this was a clever way of highlighting some of the “mistakes” job seekers make inRead… Read more »
Difficult budget times produce changes in government. One trend that I have been watching with interest is the drive to use IT to help government be more transparent. Before computers were found in government, a “paper trail” was considered good government because transactions and government decisions could be reviewed and reconstructed using files for theRead… Read more »
Staff turnover is as inevitable as death and taxes, and for government it looms on the horizon. According to the Office of Personnel Management projections, by the end of 2015 more than 50 percent of the 7,746 senior executives in place at the beginning of 2011 will have left government. As these executives leave theirRead… Read more »
The writing is on the wall and it’s on the Facebook wall if Sky News are to be believed as they analyse a second successive slump of Facebook usage. People are not just wandering off to some other network either – 100,000 Britons actively deleted their accounts in their entirety last year. It seems, asRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, co-authored with Dan Chenok. The newest business term making the rounds is “social business.” Of course, we hesitate to say “newest,” as there may be a new term by the time this blog is posted (this morning, in fact, we saw a reference to somethingRead… Read more »
“Know Thy Communication Style” Using Smart Conversations® to speak your truth and enhance all of your relationships A PublicForum Webinar Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 12:00 Eastern (New York) / 16:00 GMT (60 minute webinar with optional 30 minute Q&A) Free for Circle Club members $20 USD for nonmembers Registrants receive access to the session recordingRead… Read more »