Here’s an announcement from CommunityMatters, a partnership that NCDD is involved in… The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) is issuing a request for proposals to rural communities facing design challenges to host local workshops in 2013. Successful applicants will receive a $7,000 grant and in-kind design expertise and technical assistance valued at $35,000. TheRead… Read more »
After a huge first week in 2013, stocks followed through with some modest gains last week. Buyers stepped up each time the stock indices saw any kind of a dip and that might keep stocks buoyant for a while longer. Here are the TSP fund returns for the week of January 7 through January 11.Read… Read more »
The new workforce in the new economy is telework/telecommuting. The new workforce requires a different organizational structure and different management and leadership mindset and skills. I see the economy of the future will be more community based than currently. Are organizations ready for this transformation? I am prepared and really look forward to becoming aRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff With this post we dive deeper into technology trends associated with consumer IT, especially mobility in 2013. These flow from our earlier overview of the seven shapers of technology in 2013, but have a bit more fidelity. We offer some predictions on how we see the mobile and technology world over the nextRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff This presentation at the recent Tableau conference was so popular, we just had to repeat it! Fernando Mesa, Chief Technologist, Enterprise, will reprise the presentation in this special webcast. Join Fernando in a discussion on how to combine the power of Tableau against a NoSQL Database that is able to perform analytics againstRead… Read more »
This week, David Carr from Information Week wrote a very comprehensive and thoughtful review of the Field Guide that he titled The Government Leader’s Guide To Social Media. He did a great job of pulling out some of the core elements that we hope to get across to readers with regards to culture change, policyRead… Read more »
This post is from Ben Roberts of The Conversation Collaborative, who is leading a group of NCDD members to develop a proposal for the Catalyst Awards – and is looking for more collaborators. If you’re interested in getting involved in this project now or down the road, add a comment to this blog post, withRead… Read more »
Dear colleagues, We are Canadians who have been actively involved with the Open Government Partnership (OGP) process, including by participating in the OGP meeting in Brasilia in April 2012. The OGP is a joint government – civil society initiative to promote greater openness, participation and accountability in countries which have already attained a minimum standardRead… Read more »
Someone asked me to try and explain why this week was so awesome, cos I’d said it would be impossible. So here is my try. Some of this is very vague as I’m working on a project that’s in alpha and very not ready quite yet for the world to descend on it but I’llRead… Read more »
Blindly leading conversation can create awkward and sometimes painful blunders There is nobody that loves to hear me talk more than me. I’d love to say it is the effect of years of working as a consultant, but the fact is that even as a kid I was a talker. In fact, one time IRead… Read more »