This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In this premium episode of The PM Podcast we you get to hear more of Wayne Turmel’s wisdom on improving your presentations. But not just any kind of presentations… Remember that Wayne is the president of www.greatwebmeetings.com, which means, that the one thing he knows more aboutRead… Read more »
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How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet – creating the right incentives
This week at the Mesh conference in Toronto (where I’ll be talking Open Data) the always thoughtful Jesse Brown, of TVO’s Search Engine will be running a session title How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet. As part of the lead up to the session he asked me if I could write him a sentence or twoRead… Read more »
IBM report: Using Wikis in Government: A Guide for Public Managers
IBM The Center for Business in Government has just published my first research report on “Using Wikis in Government: A Guide for Public Managers” in their Using Technology section. You can download a pdf version of the report here. Here is a short description of the report from the IBM website: Public leaders face theRead… Read more »
WVU to upgrade personal rapid transit system
West Virginia University is upgrading its personal rapid transit system to improve reliability and performance. The first step is to upgrade the communications system from analog to digital; 10 cars have already received new digital computers and the rest of the fleet will be outfitted over the next year. “The next project that we haveRead… Read more »
Why Implementing the Plain Writing Act Will Take Decades
“In just a few more years, the current homogenized voice of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.” – The Cluetrain Manifesto “In just a few more years” – if only that were true. Unfortunately, this quote was written more thanRead… Read more »
A Shout Out to Arkansas…
… or what I SHOULD say is a TEXT Out to Arkansas. The state announced last Thursday that they have rolled out their mobile-ready website, and they are the first state to launch geolocation widgets. Check out their fully mobile-optimized Arkansas.gov website which is it is the first state website to use Text4help, a newRead… Read more »
When the Tin Standard is Enough: Social Media Engagement vs. Broadcast
As I’ve said before, there are very few absolutes when it comes to social media. Trust me, I’m well aware that the first word in “social media” is “social.” And there’s no question that the gold standard is to fully engage in any platform like Twitter, and that means retweeting, following others, etc. In Facebook,Read… Read more »
On track to nowhere
There has been a lot of work in recent years on ways of improving the process of public consultation. It’s not something about which I have any great expertise or direct involvement, but I am conscious of great efforts to produce consultation material in forms which are not just useful and accessible themselves, but whichRead… Read more »
Complexity Leadership Theory: Can it help 21st Century Decision-Makers?
This is a presentation that I gave on 5/19/2011 to a group of Ph D. students at Walden University. It is on-going research leading up to my dissertation in 2012. It was a 20-25 min. presentation and a 5-10 min. Q & A session. I have included the audio from the presentation here as well.Read… Read more »
Defining a Model of Open Innovation: MPA Capstone
This week was the first week of my MPA Capstone Project. I am in a group of six working on a project called Defining an Open Innovation Model for Government. The first week went well, it’s a really exciting project to be working on and I am excited to see the final product the groupRead… Read more »