Mark Drapeau (New York, NY) — Publicyte readers are probably familiar with Microsoft’s collaboration with Bloomingdale’s on Geek 2 Chic, a series of charity fashion shows we produce across the U.S. So far, our events in Washington DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles have raised awareness of the importance of risk-taking and entrepreneurship in today’s world,Read… Read more »
At the Verisign Distinguished Speaker, Vint Cerf, one of the founders of internet technology, told us that privacy is impossible on the internet. It is a huge copy machine with multiple copies of everything ingested, and a quest for increasingly more information. There is a strange paradox about privacy. One the one hand, there areRead… Read more »
With a New Year upon us, many people will resolve to make improvements in their lives as far as exercise, diet, relationships, and career. Successful people set goals and track their progress in achieving them. Successful organizations also set goals and track their progress in achieving them. As the old saying goes, “What gets measuredRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Pebble smartwatches begin shipping to backers this afternoon, iOS app still pending – The Pebble smartwatch was a huge Kickstarter success story, so much so that they did not know how to deal with the popularity. They are manufacturing 500 units aRead… Read more »
My department is looking (and strongly needing) to do an overhaul of our print materials we use for outreach – be it at conferences, meetings with partners, or a quick briefing for leadership. Our current print materials are outdated and disorganized. We need to develop a template that can work across topics both in designRead… Read more »
Nomination materials for the 2013 Saltmarsh Award are due Monday, April 8, 2013. The award is given in recognition of exemplary early-career leaders who are advancing the wider civic engagement movement through higher education to build a broader public culture of democracy. In an effort to recognize, support and encourage the next generation of leadersRead… Read more »
“If we’re not documenting these experiences and sharing them, then how do we justify all these resources?” ~ Steven Clift (@democracy) speaking with fellows about the need to share learning In November, I wrote to the 2012 Fellows during their final week that it was the fastest year of my life in a long time.Read… Read more »
Community as capacity is one of the founding principles of the Brigade. We believe governments work better when cities and communities collaborate. But organizing a community is hard work. In fact, our most frequent requests at the Brigade throughout 2012 were for advice around best practices for this. Luckily for us, we have an unbeatableRead… Read more »
This post may involve teaching most readers to suck eggs. It doesn’t name a tool because it can’t. I’m a civil servant and we can’t do stuff like that. But it might be useful anyway, we’ll see. (edited to add: as I’ve written this, I’ve realised that this is the way that someone who isRead… Read more »
In December 2012, the Brigade added two new members to staff: Noel Hidalgo and Hannah Young. Noel joins us as the Program Manager for New York City and Hannah as the Program Coordinator across the entire Brigade program. As we kick off 2013, we wanted to introduce Noel and Hannah by the way of aRead… Read more »