Fare evasion apparently pays for New York City subway riders, according to a report from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY). The New York Daily News reports that passengers entered the subway 18.5 million times without paying in 2009 — and police issued just 120,000 tickets. This means that scofflaws can expect to get caught onceRead… Read more »
Once again, the quality commentary on the latest reports into government IT spending is coming from blogs. Simon Dickson: The real story, such as it is, is the Committee’s apparent recognition that the current process – reliant on a small number of large suppliers being given over-spec’ed, over-detailed, over-sized and over-priced projects – is theRead… Read more »
This post is a discussion about making bug tracking in Bugzilla for the Mozilla project more efficient. However, I believe it is applicable to any open source project or even companies or governments running service desks (think 311). Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog post titled: Some thoughts on improving Bugzilla inRead… Read more »
OpenCongress — the free, open source, U.S. federal legislative current awareness and eparticipation service, sponsored by the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation — has launched two new tools for enabling citizen engagement and political communication. David Moore of the Participatory Politics Foundation — and a member of our community — is one ofRead… Read more »
There is a growing amount of discussion about the use of “badges” in education. I’ve been following a few strands of discussion on the topic and this morning something clicked for me and I began tweeting a little about the stream of thought I had on the subject. Some people on Twitter thought it mightRead… Read more »
Today I had the chance to go to the Department of Defense All Service Social Media Conference (DODASSMC) at Georgetown University’s Clarendon Campus. If you are a community manager or interested in connecting with people running social media programs, you should for sure check out the group. Today there were four speakers, everyone did aRead… Read more »
IT’s HERE!!!!! This is it guys…Next Generation of Government #2 is upon us. This is your community, your conference, and your awesomeness. I’ve been giddy all week with the epicness on the horizon. That said, sometimes it helps to take a breather and step back before 2 days of nonstop synapse firing to get yourRead… Read more »
Quick thoughts on tonight’s discussion: There are the politicians and there is the government. There is a distinct separation. Government social media accounts should promote and support services. The politician accounts should be used to support the special initiatives and agendas. Government and services are continuous. Initiatives and agendas have (or should have) a clearRead… Read more »
Yes it could be shutdown-land all over again… We aren’t hearing a thing and figure there must be some planning going on… mustnt there??? Any thoughts?? Answer here or try me at [email protected]
Savvy GovLoopers may have noticed a few changes to the GovLoop homepage as of this morning. We wanted to let you know that we’ve been listening to your feedback and critiques and are continually working to make GovLoop as awesome as it can possibly be. On the eve of Next Gen 2011, we decided toRead… Read more »