[This cross-posted from Communities and Collaboration blog] I have developed a number of Knowledge Management (KM) strategies for various clients over the past 11 or so years, and was recently asked to revamp and update the KM strategy for a large UK public sector organization that had undergone a fairly radical restructure. Previous experience ofRead… Read more »
At GovDelivery’s October 19th event in Washington, DC, 300 attendees received some valuable tips on Facebook usage by government agencies from Adam Conner, Associate Manager of Public Policy at Facebook. His engaging, fast-paced and helpful presentation included his top 10 “musts” for governments using Facebook to get their message out. Here’s a summary of thoseRead… Read more »
Water Works: Rebuilding Infrastructure, Creating Jobs, Greening the Environment, a report released last week by the organization Green For All, has caught our eye. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and produced in collaboration with American Rivers, Pacific Institute, and the Economic Policy Institute, Water Works makes some assertions worth repeating. Not only do they makeRead… Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rF3Q2ewa4E In an interview at the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011. Bob Gourley and Tom Reilly, Vice President and General Manger of Enterprise Security at HP, discussed two studies on cyber crime from the Ponemon Institute and Coleman Parks. The median cost to an organization due to cyber attack was $5.9Read… Read more »
Today’s guest blogger is Eric Erickson, a communications specialist with the IRS Recruitment Office. They say life is full of important lessons. I’m not sure who ‘they’ is, but I found out recently that they are correct. I spent about two months as the acting manager of the branch where my usual duties revolve aroundRead… Read more »
A confidential report from Transport for London (UK) says that tech improvements can allow the agency to reducing staffing by 15% and save £1.8 billion. Original post
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a Monday afternoon at a stakeholder event hosted by the Cabinet Office’s Transparency team on their Making Open Data Real consultation, with an interesting crowd of developers and users of public data products. We spent three hours pondering our thoughts on how greater use of open data mightRead… Read more »
In Greater Greater Washington, Matt Johnson summarizes some of the conversations about transit and social media from the Rail~Volution conference. Original post
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission is using backseat monitors to survey taxi passengers about their trip and their driver. Original post
As we now start the next phase of our competition asking you to suggest and put forward high level specifications of visual or software prototypes that you can develop at our event, we wonder what would happen if all these data-driven prototypes were implemented. Is this what our cities would look like? the data-citizen drivenRead… Read more »