Happy Birthday Steve!
Well it has been quite a few weeks for Steve – first a new job, then the Fiscal New Year’s party, and now his birthday! Many happy returns Steve!
New CTO at DC Government Bryan Sivak
Earlier today, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced the appointment of Bryan Sivak as Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia.
The LMX Theory
Have you noticed that managers often act differently toward their different employees? Do you sometimes see managers who have favorites? Well, if so, you are witnessing the workings of the LMX theory of leadership. The leader-member exchange (LMX) theory holds that leaders have two different types of relationships among their followers. In essence, leaders establishRead… Read more »
RSS: A Really Simple Option for Communicating with Citizens
by Sophicity While many cities have embraced the web as a way to communicate with their citizens, many are still trying to figure out the best way to leverage the vast number of tools and programs available to them. Most have websites up, but other technologies such as RSS, Twitter, and Blogs, are just nowRead… Read more »
Dow 10,000? Yawn
Good morning! It’s your govloop weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. Stocks were flat to modestly higher yesterday during the light volume holiday trading. The Dow closed up about 21-points, while the Nasdaq was down slightly. The TSP did not post new share prices because of the holidayRead… Read more »
Integration in a fragmented media world, 3 tools to help streamline external communication
A New Blog & Post: Let me know what you think. Alice
At last! An Economics Nobel Laureate for collaborators
Elinor Ostrom, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics, wins the prize for her work studying the ways that people successfully organize themselves to manage “Common Pool Resources” (CPRs) such as fisheries, water, forest, air quality, etc. I hope she’ll make it to the prize-winners’ podium in time to amplify her voice and giveRead… Read more »
Here Comes Everybody
At the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC this past September, I had the opportunity to hear Clay Shirky speak about the way social media is changing societal behaviors. I was so enamored with his talk that I went out and bought his book: Here Comes Everybody, and wrote a blog post about it onRead… Read more »
Transparency – what’s the end?
In an October 9th article in the New Republic, Lawrence Lessig authored an important critique of the transparency movement. Primarily asking the questions – transparency is all fine and good, but what is the end? Lessig’s article and a related article by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker point out that the rush to transparencyRead… Read more »
Spook.gov? Contest ends Wednesday! Re-branding web urls for Gov’t agencies
Al Kamen, Washington Post “In the Loop” columnist, is running a fun and thought-provoking Gov 2.0 contest via his WaPo column. He’s asking readers to submit memorable, succinct, humorous-yet-accurate alternate web urls for Gov’t agencies, such as www.Spook.gov for the CIA. Here are Al’s comments and instructions: What-Dot-Gov? Don’t forget to enter the Loop rebrandingRead… Read more »