Daniel Honker

I’m not sure I would call these my “favorites”, but here are some that stick in my craw 🙂
“Best practice” — Can we really know that something is a BEST practice? This seems to hearken back to the days of Taylorism and time and motion studies, when managers would look for the “one best way” to accomplish a task (usually in manual labor). How…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Faye, Josh, and Alycia. It seems like limiting the number of custom questions to a minimum and making them optional is a safe route.

Thanks, Faye. A whole year for a 5-question survey– Yikes!

Thanks, Christopher. A DMV is definitely a gov office that could use a social media presence — not only because it’s one of the more public-facing gov services, but also because social media can often be a good platform for gov showing its sense of humor.

SR to the rescue yet again… Thanks!

Right on, Dannielle. That’s the larger process I’m thinking about right now, in addition to the strategy document itself too. Luckily, the buy-in is already pretty high within the organization.

Thanks, Hal. I actually grew up in north Dallas right around Plano…

There seems to be a common thread here that the opengov movement is a network, not a hierarchy with a head. Thus, Kundra’s resignation doesn’t necessarily mean all that much. I’d agree — opengov is essentially about changing the way government works, and this change is most profound at the cultural level. So it depends on managers‘ adoption of…[Read more]

I’m about to start a new post on this, but I’ll also mention it here: http://www.good.is/post/redrawca-lets-citizens-draw-new-representative-districts-that-are-actually-representative/

A new project, ReDrawCA, gives the power back to the people by letting citizens all over the state redraw their ideal representative districts and submit them to…

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Huge story. And I agree with Ken that the gov’s website makes it sound more like a public comment period than a collaborative drafting/editing process. It also seems like the constitution is pretty well baked by their Council at this point, which limits the public’s impact. Nonetheless, allowing this degree of public participation in the process…[Read more]

The Eagles have some good tunes: “The Last Resort,” and several off their newest album: “No More Walks in the Woods” (impeccable harmonies), “It’s your World Now”
Likewise, Don Henley’s penned a number of them: “Goodbye to a River”
I’ve found it tough to find good enviro songs that aren’t too depressing…