The 2012-13 Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Awards for Distinguished DC Government Employees Mark your calendar now to nominate an exemplary DC government employee for The 2012-13 Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Awards! As you consider individuals who merit recognition, keep in mind the following criteria: Solving an extraordinary problem Bringing positive recognition to the cityRead… Read more »
Recently for Blog Action Day, the topic revolved around the Power of We and how the continued interaction and connectivity between hundreds and thousands of people can change the world. Not surprisingly, one re-occurring theme that kept surfacing was how Civic Engagement is needed in order to facilitate that change and bring together people toRead… Read more »
By BobGourley This post is sponsored the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The Enterprise CIO Forum (ECF) is a community for CIOs, CTOs and IT leaders in large enterprises. It is a venue for discussing ways to leverage technology to drive mission focused outcomes and the many related factors associated with improved IT support toRead… Read more »
Every now and then, I change around my contracts blog, All Things Sterling. One of those times is approaching. The question is, “What would you like to see changed about it?” Below are ideas I’m considering. I’m also open to more ideas. Contract productivity tips Getting jobs in contracts Contracts jobs board eBook Layout FontRead… Read more »
I just finished reading this article in last month’s Fast Company where the CEO of Pinterest, Ben Silbermann, discusses how Pinterest got started, where it’s at today, and what its future may hold. In it, they highlight some of the ways in which Pinterest defied best practices when they first started – they didn’t includeRead… Read more »
When you tweet something about work that you shouldn’t have, or from the wrong account and it gets picked up, you want the ground to swallow you up. It’s awful, and the chronicles of social media crises are full of heads on pikestaffs. But what feels like a full-on social media crisis at the time,Read… Read more »
The central conceit that drives me these days is that I want everyone who works in the Federal Government to be happy with their jobs. If they’re not, I want to change that. That’s one reason I enjoy working with interns and internship programs, because I get to work towards just that. In his bookRead… Read more »
MindMixer is one of the seven civic startups in the inaugural class of the CfA Accelerator. Government is reeling, politics are gross, and citizenship is suffering. In the backdrop of this decline we are also witnessing a complete technological revolution that has forever changed the way we communicate. It is possible for the first timeRead… Read more »
“Put it on a map.” So often I hear this request when someone encounters an interesting set of civic data. Fortunately, that process has become fairly doable thanks to tools such as Google Fusion Tables, TileMill, and Esri. What about when you don’t have the data? How do you collect it and then map it?Read… Read more »
Open Data advocate Pia Waugh spoke recently on the topic of freeing government data at Ignite Sydney 9 (an event where speakers get five minutes and 20 slides to say their piece). It provides a strong view as to why governments need to open up data to the community and is definitely worth viewing andRead… Read more »