Top 5 Hawaiian shirt-wearing movie characters Welcome New Member: Madilynn Bishop, Portland State University, Committee Assistant Join ELGL: Students (free), individuals ($20), and organizations ($250) Upcoming Forums: February 21: ELGL Willamette Valley Presents Behind the Curtain: Tour of the Hult Center March 1: ELGL Conference Planning Committee Meeting March 7: Tiffany Couch, Financial Investigation andRead… Read more »
If you don’t know The Children’s Inn at NIH, you should. Nestled in the NIH campus next to the world renowned research hospital, The Inn is a “place like home” to more than 10,000 children who bravely have traveled from all 50 states and 84 countries to find a cure. Children are admitted to theRead… Read more »
As Valentine’s Day approaches, love is in the air, and we at OmniStudio want to express our love for beautiful web design. Open source tools like WordPress, combined with easy sharing plugins for social media posting, make it possible to build a website that you and your visitors will love. Here are some of ourRead… Read more »
The other day Zac Townsend published a piece, “Introducing the idea of an open-source suite for municipal governments,” laying out the case for why cities should collaboratively create open source software that can be shared among them. I think it is a great idea. And I’m thrilled to hear that more people are excited aboutRead… Read more »
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web World building 201: Heuristics – Charlie’s Diary The ratio of the near future is: 90% of it is just like today, 9% is stuff that is on the drawing boards, and 1% is unutterably strange and alien and unexpected. Creativity at the heart of government –Read… Read more »
NetFlix has released its ‘manifesto’ detailing how they operate and why, a document that Facebook’s COO has described as “the most important document to ever come out of Silicon Valley” and that has attracted well over three million views on Slideshare. It is the best document I’ve ever seen on building a smart and innovativeRead… Read more »
Introduction: New ELGL Column: “An MPA From My Apt.” The New York Times published an article recently about the 10K B.A., a news concept inspired by a Bill Gates challenge. Governors in Texas, Florida, and Wisconsin are exploring what it would take to offer the equivalent of a four year college degree for less thanRead… Read more »
Today I tried out Street Bump – a mobile application designed and developed by Connected Bits, LLC and produced by the Mayor’s office of Boston. This application, available for the iPhone, picks up bumps in the road as people drive along a street with their phone. Because smoothness or “the ride” is one component weRead… Read more »
Hello! During the Wyatt’s well deserved vacation to a top-secret beachfront location, Kent has decided to take the questionable risk of letting me be the guest buzzer for February 12th. I currently work as the College Activities and Greek Life intern at Linfield College while applying to MPA programs. Before working for Linfield, I workedRead… Read more »
The future workforce will require managers with higher level of humility and humanity. It is not too much of the technical but the solf skills–how to create a harmony workforce and how to understand and listen to employee concerns and find ways to resolve them a quickly as possible. Managers of the future must notRead… Read more »