Job That Matters follow up opportunity ? I have received an email invite to an event on October 14 where i identified your topic as relavance to my expertise and knoweldge relating to ‘technology innovation & entrepreneurship’ utilzing the Stimulous Package (SP) grants requirement of PPP (private public partnership) for job creatiion tasks that alsoRead… Read more »
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How Do Rocket Scientists Learn? (aka, knowledge management lessons learned at Goddard, NASA)
Originally posted at my blog: http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Rocket scientists, software developers, systems engineers, and all the other people that work at Goddard helping us better understand the earth and space are smart. That’s a given. But how do they improve their practice, learn from each other, and continue to improve on overwhelmingly complex tasks? In aRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Guide To A City Makeover
Originally Posted On GovFresh My name is Dustin Haisler and I’m the Assistant City Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Manor, Texas. Manor is a small community, located just east of Austin, of approximately 6,500 citizens. More recently, Manor has received a lot press for some of our innovative projects; suchRead… Read more »
CB2: Social Alerting With Influence
I’ve been going about alerting all wrong. I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert in the crisis alerting space, having built or deployed SMS, FM and satellite text and video notification systems in the past. I’ve also been fairly vocal on how their inherent limitations of cost, public adoption rate, and lack ofRead… Read more »
Weekly Research and Best Practices
ResearchSocial networks are most popular Gov 2.0 tool (09/2010) – Hewlett-Packard surveyed 103 executives from federal, state and local government agencies about their use of Web 2.0 Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they used social networking tools, followed by blogs, video, government-specific networks, podcasts, wikis, syndicated feeds, and virtual worlds. http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/hp-government-it-survey-report-government-20 A community of fans,Read… Read more »
The Wicked Problem of Gov 2.0
What exactly is the nature of the Gov 2.0 challenge? This question was inspired by Andrew Krzmarzick’s post (“What Gov 2.0 Needs Now: Managers, Money and Models”) and Christina Morrison’s post (“What is Gov 2.0? A survey of Government IT pros”) on the recent GovLoop survey about Gov 2.0. As Andrew and Christina argued, theRead… Read more »
Public Servants That The Web Built
There is no way to speak about this without sounding completely self-absorbed so I apologize in advance, but during times of self-reflection one can’t help but speak about themselves a little bit. I have had the good fortune of speaking to public servants across the country, to share my story with them, to inspire themRead… Read more »
Denver GovUp RoundUp – Just Do It & The Pound
Lovely ColoradoHad a blast at our Denver GovUp last week. It was a great mix of folks from local counties, City of Denver, MPA programs nearby, federal agencies like Interior, GAO, and GSA, and State of Colorado government. The awesome pound below says it all… A couple interesting observations from the night: 1. Help EachRead… Read more »
HHS CTO Park announces HealthData.gov, talks about new VA Blue Button
Have you met Todd Park? He’s the first CTO of Health and Human Services Department of the United States. Earlier this week, he announced the upcoming launch of HealthData.gov, a new website that will publish open government health data. If you’re unfamiliar with Park, I interviewed him at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo: Park andRead… Read more »
Becoming Citizen 2.0: Step Four, Co-ordinator
If most of government, and Gov 2.0, is about ordinary people doing ordinary (though necessary, ennobling, and underappreciated) things, Coordinators are the people who are doing extraordinary things. Both within government and beyond it, coordinators are the ones who are looking at the big picture and creating the tools that co-deliverers and creators use. WhatRead… Read more »