Dustin Haisler

I’ve used Basecamp (http://basecamp.com/), Bettermeans (http://www.bettermeans.com), OpenAtrium (http://openatrium.com/) and Manymoon (http://www.manymoon.com) in various projects.

Employees should be able to submit ideas and suggestions from their mobile phones as well, since most ideas don’t hit us when we’re in front of computer logged into the Employee Intranet.

Sometimes it’s easier to convince management to start small, with something easy- like paperless statements. Use that to prove value of digital documents and let the fun begin!

Robert, great point! From my own experience, I’ve seen time and time again that listening is one of the most important skills to have with getting buy-in.

The open government movement is very much like an organism. It will change and adapt to new challenges, and continue to progress forward as a collective movement for the greater good.

While in Manor, I launched an open innovation portal to first collect ideas from employees (and enable inter-departmental collaboration), and then expanded the project scope to collect ideas from the general public to cut costs and increase efficiency and process transparency.

Hey Laura,

Thanks. Great to hear you’re headed down that path. It’s not easy, but I’m confident that you’ll achieve great things!

Dustin

We used http://zxing.appspot.com/generator for the Manor campaign.
Dusitn

Me too. Chris would be great!