Had a great Xmas discussion tonight with my mother, who is of a generation that remembers better times, when the gap was not quite so wide, when Americans truly had the Gov 2.0 “Do It Ourselves” mentality, rather than the “I’m in it for myself” attitude we see so often today. She asked, and IRead… Read more »
It turns out that Santa, with the help of some terribly two clever elves over at Montreal Ouvert has created an Open Data inspired present for Montrealers. What, you must ask could it be? It’s PatinerMontreal.ca It’s a genius little website created by two Montreal developers – James McKinney and Dan Mireault – that scrapesRead… Read more »
FedinsiderTrying to change the government is like running up a hill that gradually gets steeper. The going gets more difficult and eventually you tire out. Two years since President Obama was inaugurated, his team managing the government itself has been stable. And it enters 2011 still having pretty good momentum. The one big change wasRead… Read more »
Prizes and competitions provide one way to stimulate innovation and tap “solver communities” that may not have been leveraged previously when considering some of our nation’s grand challenges. As I wrote this past summer, both on my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, thereRead… Read more »
San Francisco’s always been a special place for movie buffs. And now the City’s Film Commission is opening up its treasure trove of historical information to application developers. As part of the City’s signature “open data” initiative, the commission this week posted information on more than 800 San Francisco locations used in movie shoots fromRead… Read more »
Hola and Feliz Navidad from 35,000 feet as I blog on my return flight from Bogota, Colombia where I return with sunburn, coffee and new perspectives after working with the government of Barranquilla to combat devastating floods in the country. Exactly one week after witnessing the Army Corp of Engineers’ giant levee plug in Vicksburg,Read… Read more »
Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, joins leaders like Microsoft, IBM and Netflix in Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing environment. 2010 has been a banner year for Newton. We’ve added over 120 new customers and our revenue has grown by over 1000%. We’ve anticipated moving Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, to the cloud for aRead… Read more »
This morning, the White House new media team tried something a bit different: live questions and answers on Twitter, with Roberts Gibbs (@PressSec) replying to users with their @ handles. I was happy to be one of them. I wrote up a quick story using Storify, the online media curatio tool, but I can’t embedRead… Read more »
No real blog this week from the Government Man. It is time to wish all of my friends, followers (and critics) a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (as politically incorrect as that wording might be today). No blogs, no comments and no postings today. No biting political satire, no outlandish stories or sports analogies,Read… Read more »
In the never ending search to know “what works,” we have a few choices. We can look to theories, i.e., this ‘should’ work; or we can look to data. Often the latter choice is considered backward looking, or stripped of context. Data autopsies are conducted with the results analyzed and presented as a ‘case study.’Read… Read more »