Gadi Ben-Yehuda Vines, Spreading like Kudzu. Joseph Marks reports that US Embassies are sending out Vines. (Bonus: he also writes about how agencies are filling out their Facebook Timelines.) You’d be surprised. Ryan Holmes, the CEO of HootSuite, write about “7 Unexpected (but Great) Ways the Government is Using Social Media“ And You Might LearnRead… Read more »
Updated: This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok at the IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on June 18 entitled “Reinventing Government”. Several leaders with great experience in Federal government leadership and management issues presented testimony and engaged in an extensive discussionRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Nationals. On Her Majesty’s [Digital] Service. The BBC takes readers “Inside the UK Government Digital Service“ Crowdsourcing Canada. There’s still time to join a meetup to help “connect and build the open data community in Canada.” Excel-lent Aussies. The Financial Review reports that the Australian Treasury “will release budget papers inRead… Read more »
This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok on the IBM Center for the Business of Government blog. Last week, the Obama Administration released its latest set of reports on government performance toward achieving many high-priority goals, within and across agencies. As the Center has written previously, public presentation on this topic focuses on outcomesRead… Read more »
A new report explores the topic of data visualization and its use by the federal government. Appropriately titled “The Use of Data Visualization in Government,” the report details how agencies are turning data into infographics and how government managers can use a slew of tools to help tell their agencies’ stories in a way thatRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The future is not what you think it is. In some ways, it’s like the past. “E-Mail: Not Dead, Evolving“ In others, it’s a break from the past. @CJoh, in Q&A: “RFPEZ ≠ FOB 2.0, SAM, FedBizOpps” Philadelphia’s Chief Data Officer is trying to “change the game on civic tech” Related: HowTo.gov asks:Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Portals. From Governing: “New Portal Boosts Energy Research“ A new site, CrowdCrafting, seeks to be a portal for organizations and people who want to start or participate in crowdsourcing projects that “require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more.” A portal to real-time health data?Read… Read more »
The FOSE convention was held this month, and I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the future of the workforce—specifically how technology is changing the work environment and will enable people to succeed within it. There were four technologies that I saw as coalescing to transform the workplace: Mobility, meaning both the end-devicesRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Superlatives! Big ideas! Great Quotes! Newest releases! The USDA has released an API for developers to access information from its National Farmer’s Market Directory. Alex Howard writes on Slate.com about “The Best Thing” the president has done “this month” (bonus: infographic of “every big idea ever“) On GovLoop, Steve Ressler sharesRead… Read more »
This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok’s contribution. Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week has seen a lot of stories about Data–Big, Open, and Social. Ordering Open: Steven VanRoekel and Todd Park discuss the executive order “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Interesting data on social media for civic leaders.Read… Read more »