WOOT! NAGW Conference registration is open and now I can share all the great things we have planned for September 24-27 in Louisville KY. I have attended every NAGW conference and I have to say that I am beyond excited about this year’s event. Consider this line-up: Brad Frost, the creator of This is ResponsiveRead… Read more »
Lily Liu, CEO and Founder of PublicStuff has written a very informative piece for The Huffington Post, on how governments should be innovating with Open 311 and has given a series of practical tips to get started: Link to article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lily-liu/practical-tips-for-cities_b_3187535.html In May 2009 the first version of the Open311 API was introduced in Washington,Read… Read more »
Originally posted to cpsrenewal.ca Right now the web is awash with articles about Big Data; it seems like everyone is getting caught up in the rush. I myself even declared that Big Data will become one of the most important policy inputs over the next 10 years (See: Big Data, Social Media, and the LongRead… Read more »
Over 100 of your peers have completed the Gov Meetings Go Virtual online training course to learn about planning and implementing government webinars and hybrid/virtual meetings. Now they have a few things to tell you — http://www.GovMeetingsGoVirtual.com “The course met my learning objectives”: 87.5% “I will recommend this course to my colleagues”: 90% “The instructorRead… Read more »
I don’t think this has been widely noticed in government yet, but Australia achieved an interesting Gov 2.0 first this week on the back of the Myers disability scandal. The backstory: after the Prime Minister announced that DisabilityCare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), would be partially funded through an increase of 0.5% in theRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley The following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being established for dramatic positive change in the federal IT ecosystem including the government contractingRead… Read more »
Our first installment of The Assistant takes a look at the career path of David Donaldson, Lake Oswego assistant city manager. David’s career path is full of public and private sector experience including interning for Roger Jordan in Dallas and serving as a vice president of a major recruiting firm. David’s work ethic and integrityRead… Read more »
For the A Team, as our fellowship team is affectionately known as our names start with A, February was about getting to know Kansas City (Kan. + Mo.). How do you learn about a place? Walk its streets? Meet its people? Attend its events? In early February, the directors of a new play about KansasRead… Read more »
During my career in local government, there were numerous times individuals running for public office would boast that when they get into office they were going to clean house, get rid of waste, and fire unnecessary public employees to reduce the payroll. Man, that rhetoric sure sounded good during the campaign; however from what IRead… Read more »
In principle, if a disagreement is caused by an outside issue that has nothing to do with the group issue at hand, then it must be dealt with outside the group. An outside issue is a disagreement because of, for example, some incident between the parties that happened years ago and was never dealt with,Read… Read more »