Image courtesy of Flickr user davitydave This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins,Read… Read more »
This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins, chats, and texts. He realized hisRead… Read more »
1) I’ve posted presentation videos and slide decks from the 2013 Sentiment Analysis Symposium. They’re publicly available, no registration required. My goal is simply to give back to the community. 2) I’m planning two conferences for the first half of 2014, the first in New York in late February or early March, the second inRead… Read more »
Is your agency’s mission at risk because critical meetings and conferences are being cancelled or drastically reduced due to travel budget cuts and conference approval restrictions? Don’t give up on your important meetings and conferences. Take this 6-week Government Virtual Events Producer (GVEP) certificate program and you’ll quickly build the skills your agency needs toRead… Read more »
(Author’s Note! My comments are a bit tongue-in-cheek, although with a lot of underlying truths based on my career experiences. Please consider it fun stuff. I loved my career!) During a recent trip to Canada I noticed that each time I received change it was rounded to the nearest nickel. At first I thought itRead… Read more »
I want to share what may be the core innovation technique, Paper Prototyping. This is a low-cost secret, appropriate when ideas hit, in bed, working flat out, sitting in boring meetings, traveling in a crowded Metro. Ideas are slippery suckers. Take it from me, if you don’t write ’em down, they tend to get away,Read… Read more »
NAGC President Elect John Verrico is featured in our next installment of the NAGC Webinar Series, Lightning Talks with Subject Matter Experts. This installment, entitled “Get Out From Behind the Table and Meet Your Public: How to Excel in Face-to-Face Community Relations,” is scheduled for Sept. 18, from 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. Even asRead… Read more »
Quote: “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” – Anonymous I’m sure most of your co-workers only do the work that is asked of them, nothing more, and nothing less. What about you? Well, if you want toRead… Read more »
“I think I just spent 1½hrs playing this.”—Mick Thompson, private correspondence Earlier in the year, we built a game called Click That ’Hood for two simple reasons: to learn the neighborhoods of Louisville (my fellowship city), and to learn some geovisualization techniques. Half a year later, with 98 cities across 12 countries, I am lookingRead… Read more »
One of the interesting aspects about open data is how creatively it can be used to generate new insights, identify patterns and make information easier to absorb. Yesterday I encountered two separate visualisations, designed on opposite sides of the world, which illustrated this creativity in very different ways. First was the animated visualisation of 250Read… Read more »