Gov. Martin O’Malley Uses GIS to Transform Maryland
Here’s a story that’s based on an interview I did with Gov. O’Malley. Pretty interesting stuff. Story Here
Do You See Spiders? Making Government Data Truly Open
In addition to publishing downloadable data and open interfaces, government needs to learn from successful commercial websites and bring their “Deep Web” data to the surface. I have posted some thoughts on this on my personal blog: Do You See Spiders? Making Government Data Truly Open I’d appreciate feedback, either here or in my blogRead… Read more »
Software as a Service (draft) post
This is some documentation that I am doing for work. Software as a Service(SaaS) is using an outside resource to provide a Software Packages to the city so we do not need to build and maintain every application. History The city of Richmond has been doing this for sometime with web application. Although I doRead… Read more »
Overcoming obstacles in local govt use of Web 2.0
Seeking ideas concerning overcoming liability and time constraint issues in creating and moderating facebook for our city website. We are just beginning to discuss the possibility but are up against the difficulty in managing content and maintaining such a forum. Email ideas if you have suggestions or suggested reading / policies, etc. Thanks.
GPO 2009 Open House (Somewhat) Live
LIVE UPDATES 8:30 am In my efforts to live tweet this event, I had to resort to updating this blog. Government isn’t quite sold on the live tweet/updates argument, but I’ll do my best to keep you updated via blogs over the next few hours. I just got the call to come set up ourRead… Read more »
Wiki about Social Networking Legal Issues: Washington State
This wiki contains some useful information about Social Media and Local Elected Officials. http://citycouncilbloghandbook.wikispaces.com/Legal+Issues+and+Guidance
Federal Gov’t Releases Info How to Apply for Reinvestment Act Grants Today
http://thegrantplant.blogspot.com/2009/08/federal-recovery-act-grants-information.html
I’ve been surfing social media and the general election in the UK
It’s my understanding that next general election must be held by the first week of next June, and might be called sooner. This is a terrific opportunity to observe the voters, parties and government of a highly educated, bandwidth-rich nation as they engage with social media under election pressure. I won’t pretend to provide anythingRead… Read more »
Defense Acquisition Reform Needs Common Sense
From the Acquisition Corner: An interesting piece on defense acquisition reform came out by Scott Reynolds, a professor of program management for the Defense Systems Management College at Defense Acquisition University on how we can come to see poor performance in the defense acquisition process as a matter of fact rather than something that isRead… Read more »
Ask GovLoop on Knowledge – Core Concepts of Knowledge Management
The core concepts of Knowledge Management are: Knowledge Organizational Knowledge Knowledge Management Knowledge is the whole set of insights, experiences and procedures that are considered correct and true and that therefore guide the thoughts, behaviors and communications of people (van der Spk and Spijkevert, 1997) Organizational Knowledge is the collective sum of human-centered assets, intellectualRead… Read more »