25 most and least liked City Web Sites in no real order. Yet?

Most liked 1 New York City http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true 5 2 Philadelphia http://www.phila.gov/ 5 3 San Francisco http://www.sfgov.org/ 5 4 Austin http://www.austintexas.org/ 5 5 Nashville http://www.nashville.gov/ 5 6 Oklahoma City http://www.okc.gov/ 5 low 7 Fresno http://www.fresno.gov/default.htm 5 8 Long Beach http://www.longbeach.gov/default.asp 5 9 Cleveland http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home 5 10 Virginia Beach http://www.vbgov.com/ 5 11 Miami http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/cms/ 5 12 ArlingtonRead… Read more »

Top 5 Leadership Characteristics for Process Improvement Success

Recently during a visit to the GSA conference held in San Antonio, I had the opportunity to speak with several people in the federal government about Lean Six Sigma. In most cases they shared with me that they had “tried” Lean Six Sigma and it did not work or “we did that and are nowRead… Read more »

Open Gov Is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue

Republished from O’Reilly Radar. Blog post by John Geraci of DIYcity.org Original post can be found here At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum I had a conversation with someone working for a city (I won’t say which city), who was tasked with opening up that city’s data. We were talking about the Apps for DemocracyRead… Read more »

Social media – the new way to stick it to the man?

Author’s note: I’m reproducing this blog from our internal City of Toronto staff webbook blog on social media. Would you agree we face a great deal of bureaucracy in our work in government? It’s generally not one person who may impede the progress of a task but more often a chain of sometimes old andRead… Read more »

Web Writing 1.0 = 2.0

Author’s note: I’m reproducing this blog from our internal City of Toronto staff webbook blog on web writing. With all the buzz around Web 2.0 technology, it’s easy to forget social media tools allow everyone to “write for the web”. It’s no longer a one way street. User comments are often more significant than theRead… Read more »

The agency and Facebook

There are around two dozen state Departments of Transportation on Facebook. Facebook’s newsfeed-style user homepage is apparently still somewhat contentious among the site’s users (I wasn’t around before the switch), but it’s the standard presentation template for most online communities, and it’s ideally suited to the kind of public outreach required of most DOTs. AnRead… Read more »

HOV 3

When I first started working some 32 years ago, I took the bus from my apartment on Beacon Hill south of Alexandria, VA to downtown DC. Sometime after the Blue Line on Metro opened up, I took Metro to my downtown DC job. And after my husband took a job where I work, we wouldRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: When to Quit Government Work

“The Dean” David Broder wrote earlier this week about the recent death of former defense secretary Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation. He uses both departures to discuss when public officials should hang it up and leave, concluding that neither McNamara or Palin serve as good examples. Writes David: It was not until 1995,Read… Read more »

Wall maps

I’m doing a personal project which requires wall maps to provide people information on services for their area. I’m looking for wall maps that have street level details for Northern Virginia communities. What is the best place to purchase local area street maps that may be laminated and posted on bulletin boards? I’m looking forRead… Read more »

Web 2.0 Can Recruit New Workforce

From Federal Computer Week As the discussion about acquisition reform continues in Congress and throughout the federal government, a new emphasis is emerging on workforce development as critical to successful acquisitions. Concern about the nearing wave of large-scale retirements has grown for the past several years, yet no good solution has emerged. Recent press coverageRead… Read more »

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