San Francisco CIO Chris Vein and Allison Hornery of CivicTec join us for a wrap of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments, held early September in Seoul.
Been a while since I’ve blogged but it was quite fruitful absence. I spent the time catching up on the latest developments in management including a fascinating book on Process Intelligence. What I like about process intelligence is that it is blending of business process management and business analytics that aids in designing an optimumRead… Read more »
Notes From NAGWTHE BEST conference of the year is just around the corner: the NAGW National Conference. Held at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis, webmasters will gather from September 22 through September 24. I’ve been at every conference since that first one in Kansas City nine years ago and they just keep getting betterRead… Read more »
If the right 20% effort gets you 80% of the result, what does 80% effort get you? If it’s a piece of metal twisted back and forth, you can get two pieces, disassembled. If you are navigating a big enough ship into a wharf, you can get a mobile wharf…just before beachfront parking. I amRead… Read more »
New CDC Reports Provide “Vital” Information About Smoking CDC Vital Signs materials released on September 7 focus on adult smoking rates and trends as well as secondhand smoke exposure in the United States. Learn more about what percentage of U.S. nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke and which states have the highest smoking rates.
I am a big fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes and with the pre-season college football rankings just released – and OSU ranked number two in the nation – my hopes for the season are sky-high. Unfortunately, I’ve been burned so many times over the years that I try not to put too much weightRead… Read more »
You’ve done your resume, connected through networking, submitted the application, made it through the phone screening, through the security scan and are finally in the interview! In “Princess Bride” terms, you have crossed the ocean, climbed the really, really long rope up the cliff, bested the giant, overcome Inigo Montoya’s swordsmanship (and conversation!), and areRead… Read more »
Tim O’Reilly brought two folks to the Gov 2.0 Summit stage this morning: Randi Levin, CTO for the city of Los Angeles, CA and Dave Girouard of Google. L.A. is halfway through a migration for their city-wide email system, moving from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps and Randi estimates an eventual savings of $5M overRead… Read more »
As promised, Department of State is hosting a conference on Civil Society 2.0 in November… see announcement below and save the date! –an earthquake in Haiti –African fishermen needing cash for their catch –disrupted elections in Iran –overseas families in need of support In all these difficult circumstances, technology has made a dramatic difference inRead… Read more »
Whoe schedule of 10-minute speakers. No one has yet showed us anything real that is actually happening in Gov 2.0/Open Gov. Seems to me we are building it, but no one’s coming other than the interest groups themselves–where’re Citizens?