This week, for the second year in a row, I am volunteering as a contractor and will be joining several hundred youth and adults from my faith-based community to perform home improvement work in the homes of needy people living in an economically depressed area. The 140 or so projects we will complete include painting,Read… Read more »
Hey, everyone! We have a one-hour webinar scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) at 1pm Eastern for the national dialogue initiative Creating Community Solutions. Two NCDD members I just adore — Martha McCoy of Everyday Democracy and Daniel Clark of AmericaSpeaks — are leading the webinar, on the topic “Organizing Multiple Conversations Across Your Community.” If you’reRead… Read more »
This month’s infographic, Improving Healthcare Buildings with BIM, is brought to you by one of my very favorite companies, Autodesk. Just like infographics, BIM makes use of visualization techniques to convey a message in a more interesing way that makes ideas easier to understand. If you have an interesting infographic related to public works orRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff This article was originally published by Gagan Mehra on Terracotta’s Blog, here. Can you improve core banking with faster analytics and back-end processing? We think so! A recent report estimated that between 2009 and 2014, the total number of U.S. online banking households will increase from 54 million to 66 million. ThisRead… Read more »
Continuing the development of my thinking around the Framework for Digital Local Public Services and following quickly on from my previous posts on Connectivity and Education. This post focuses on Hardware and Software and some of the opportunities to think differently around this area. The framework outlines the following: Hardware : every citizen requires theRead… Read more »
This morning in Boston, the Knight Foundation announced that OpenCounter was one of the eight winners of this year’s Knight News Challenge. Knight’s investment in our idea, to make business permitting easier and more intuitive for entrepreneurs, is not only humbling, but a validation of the approach that Code for America and the City ofRead… Read more »
Hello all, My name is Angie Eybel, I am a conference producer at The Advanced Learning Institute and am currently producing a Big Data Conference to take place in Washington, D.C. this coming fall of 2013. After 30 plus successful government forums and extensive research we have decided Big Data is the newest and hottestRead… Read more »
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If you’re like me, you enjoy meeting new people and learning new things. My thirst for knowledge was one of the reasons I decided to attend grad school, and the people I have met during my two-plus years at Georgetown have been great. But, as a social media community manager, I know that partaking inRead… Read more »
Ever wanted to start blogging but just didn’t have the confidence in the technology or your ability to write lots of juicy content? Our new online course is here to help! Blogging bootcamp runs over the summer and is a six week course that you can dip in and out of, so no worries ifRead… Read more »