When you get a thank you card at the end of a program signed by participants during the event either it’s a less than captivating workshop or the group was really motivated to give you feedback. Fortunately, it was the latter and the words inscribed were very positive and poignant – people felt “enlightened,” “inspired”Read… Read more »
Open government cannot succeed through technology only. Open data, ideation platforms, cloud solutions, and social media are great tools but when they are used to deliver government services using existing models they can only deliver partial value, value which can not be measured and value that is unclear to anyone but the technology practitioners thatRead… Read more »
This month, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released their 2011 Internship & Co-op Survey. And the survey says… There’s going to be a 7% increase in internships for 2011, and this increase is expected in every region and in almost all industry sectors for which they had data. The two exceptions? GovernmentRead… Read more »
Every month I have the honor of presenting, How to Use the Internet and Social Media in Your Job Search, to a group of very dedicated government professionals who are transitioning. While we present this class to many groups each month, this group is the most challenging due to their resistance to being on theRead… Read more »
A Detroit Free Press editorial asks whether an elevated magnetic levitation system, currently pitched by SkyTran, can revitalize Detroit (MI). Original post
In “Connecting a Samsung TV to the Internet” I had decided to reconfigure a low cost wireless router, to be a repeater bridge using the open source DD-WRT software. This was so I could plug a TV into the Internet. DD-WRT turned out to be very easy to install. I downloaded the appropriate software andRead… Read more »
TriMet (OR) launched an online performance dashboard that tracks ridership, cost per ride, on-time performance, revenues, and collisions. Original post
Not everyone is concerned that iPhones track and store information about user locations, but Wired explains why the feature creates a security risk. Original post
https://www.govloop.com/group/customerserviceingovernment/forum/topics/how-can-an-agency-improve-if Please check at this post from the Customer Service in Government Group. How would you solve this problem?
I grew up in quite a remote village. The nearest record shop was Andy’s Records and was in Taunton, a 20 mile round trip on a shuttle bus which went about as much the long way around as it was possible to do so. I never felt very comfortable in there, and when I didRead… Read more »