03.27.13: Your Morning Buzz

Fight over Pendleton Round-Up costume heading to Oregon Supreme Court The High Five Would Professional City Managers Help Clean Up Rust Belt City Halls? That being the case and given the understanding that there certainly are no silver bullets in the Rust Belt on any front, is it time for some communities to consider proactivelyRead… Read more »

Intelligence and Analysis

Had a chance to attend an industry analysts’ working group. Stars from competing companies met in a special forum to get a better picture of where their profession is going. First symptom is the explosion of casual data. Their customers see it all around them and want to know how it relates to the professionalRead… Read more »

Fragments

Donald Barthelme, in See the Moon?, in 1968: Fragments are the only forms I trust. Italo Calvino, in If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveller, in 1979: …the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediatelyRead… Read more »

Ready or not, software is eating the government contracting world

By Bob Gourley As readers of CTOvision you no doubt track the trends and are as aware as any of how software transforms industries, sometimes in shockingly brutal ways. I take no pleasure in telling any of you that my focus industry, the advanced technology sector around national security missions, is about to see massive,Read… Read more »

Meet Mike Flowers.

Over the weekend, the New York Times came out with a high-flying profile of Michael Flowers, New York City’s director of analytics. It’s an accessible piece that highlights the strides NYC is taking with data and open government. The article also make an anecdotal highlight of Mike’s work mining data to unclog Manhattan pipes filledRead… Read more »

NAGC Names Fillichio Communicator of the Year

201 Park Washington Court, Falls Church, VA 22046-4527 PH 703.538.1787 | FX 703.241.5603 [email protected] | www.nagconline.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Dawn Shiley NAGC Communications Manager [email protected] 571-481-8657 March 26, 2013 (Falls Church, Va.) – The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) has selected Carl A. Fillichio, Senior Advisor for Communications and Public Affairs atRead… Read more »

The Postal Service Is Not a GOP Target

Congressional Republicans Just Want You to Think It Is. Unlike most Americans, many members of Congress have actually read the United States Constitution. They know what it would take to abolish the postal service and they do not intend to do it. The Constitution requires Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”. Thus, closingRead… Read more »

The Transition with Courtney Lords, Office of Multnomah County Attorney

Courtney has taken the leap back to the public sector after spending several years at Beery Elsner. Her individual practice areas at Beery Elsner were municipal law and governance and urban renewal and economic development. We caught up with Courtney to discuss her job transition, her career accomplishments, and of course, her best lawyer joke.Read… Read more »

The power of open data is often in serendipity

I often hear talk from government agencies about their wish to release more of their data openly, but their concern over how they allocate resources to ensure the most useful data is released first. In several conversations I’ve had in different parts of Australia, the agency view was that they only wanted to release usefulRead… Read more »