Local Government Blogs
Can anyone direct me to some local government blogs? I am familiar with the federal government blogs but I’d like to see what’s happening at the local level. Thanks.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Social Security’s Open Government Video Contest
SPREAD THE WORD!!!! The Social Security Administration has announced a very exciting video contest. Entry information is available online at www.socialsecurity.gov/open/contest.
CB2: Can This Guy Keep Us Interested In Haiti?
Le Président Jean? I, like many of you, read this morning that former-Fugee Wyclef Jean may announce a run for president of Haiti. Jean was born in Port-au-Prince, raised in Brooklyn, and went on to become a famous hip-hop artist and industry entrepreneur. After the earthquake he helped raised over $9 million for Haiti andRead… Read more »
How Others Are Helping Service Members & Their Families
Through effective collaboration there is the opportunity and power to serve, to help others, to do more good as a result of our collective network. Please feel free to share how others maybe helping our service members and their families. Here is one such story taking place: Today Advanced Auto Parts donated $25k to @Op_HomefrontRead… Read more »
GovLoop Launching Series on Huffington Post
So I’m pretty excited that we are writing a regular series on government at the Huffington Post. It’ll be a mix of some of the regular blogs I write here spruced up for a larger audience, some new original content, and any other suggestions from others. If you are interested at all in getting featured,Read… Read more »
How Would Employees Evaluate You?
Are you someone who wants to get better at developing yourself or other employees? Are you a supervisor who wants to improve your supervisory skills? Perhaps you are a worker-bee who just thinks your supervisor needs to get a clue? No matter where your position is found in the chain-of-command, when managers do the rightRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – August 4, 2010
Spreading our wings: Lovisa Williams: Failure is Not an Option Patrick Wintour: Coalition’s first crowdsourcing attempt fails to alter Whitehall line Andrea DiMaio: A Developer Corps Is a Brilliant Idea for Open Government Gautham Nagesh: Devaney – Stimulus tracking technology the model for government transparency Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula (on FedNewsRadio): Why the Air ForceRead… Read more »
NENfm: Is the Bridge to Government Made of Data?
City of San Francisco has a great capacity building project called the “Neighborhood Empowerment Network.” They have a new podcast and today interviewed me about Open Data in San Francisco and around the world. Check it out here.
Looking For A Tool To Help Your Agency’s Data Make Sense – Come to this FREE webinar
Have you registered for the next Web Manager University New Media Talk? This event is interesting to me personally because – I hate data. I mean – I actually love using data to make decisions, prove theories, and discover patterns. What I don’t like is inputting data into tables, creating graphs, and making it usable,Read… Read more »
GovLaunch: The New RECAP Archive – Better Public Access to U.S. Federal Court Records
Stephen Schultze and Harlan Yu, both of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy, today announced (here and here) the launching of The RECAP Archive, a new Web interface to RECAP, the free database of U.S. federal court documents. The RECAP Archive enables searching and browsing by court, case name, docket number, PACER caseRead… Read more »