The National Journal just featured Department of Health and Human Services CTO Todd Park and the work he and his department have been doing with technology. In our opinion, they are one of the best — if not the best — examples of open government and Gov 2.0 at the federal level: not only usingRead… Read more »
One of the greatest challenges and opportunities in being a truly effective leader is to integrate all of who we are into all our activities. I am constantly amazed when clients describe their background only to leave out major pieces of their life because they didn’t think it was important. Everything that happens in yourRead… Read more »
One of the important aspects of preparing for your PMP Certification is going through a process of answering a series of sample questions that are purposely meant to test your readiness for the big day. As you may already have realized, studying for the exam requires a lot of work, including taking numerous sample testsRead… Read more »
Most people are probably vaguely aware that last year’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires each state to set up a “health benefit exchange,” where residents can go to compare options and purchase health insurance, by 2014. What people might not realize is that, according to an article in Government Technology, it’s Chief InformationRead… Read more »
Best Practices for Government Libraries 2011: e-Initiatives and e-Efforts: Expanding Our Horizons is scheduled to be released shortly. I want to share the list of articles that will be included in the 2011 edition in a series of quick posts prior to its availability as a PDF here on the Government Info Pro. The submissionsRead… Read more »
Readers of this blog know I like to play the electric guitar (I turn it up to 11), and I like Arlington Fretworks. http://arlingtonfretworks.com/home Proprietor and craftsman Daniel Carbone repairs and builds guitars there. I have written previously about his standards of excellence being off the charts. (One client wrote that he would trust himRead… Read more »
This is an excerpt from my regular morning post on BeltWiki Blog from WhoRunsGov.com. Read the full post here. Intern Incoming Summer in Washington brings thousands of interns who make the District home for a few months. With them comes the requisite how-to-live-here (without annoying the living heck out of the natives) posts and articles.Read… Read more »
Last week I facilitated a short workshop for Councillors here in Devon on Social Media – It was pre-introductory, in that if I tried to provide any less detail I wouldn’t have actually said anything Out of the 62 councillors we have 20 attended which I was very pleased with, I’m not sure if itRead… Read more »
Yesterday I was talking with Edd Dumbill, who runs the O’Reilly Strata conference, about big data. Edd said, “I think we’re moving out of the phase of data as pretty pictures and into a phase of data as something actionable…. We (at Strata) want to enable companies to become data-driven companies.” That was an interestingRead… Read more »
“Planning 2.0 about open government” How GIS can be interactive with the public. “Chicago’s chief technology officer has vision of Digital Second City” “[New Data] How can governments better engage the Hispanic population?” The U.S. Census Bureau “released a 2010 Census brief on the nation’s Hispanic population”. It’s got some newly compiled data in it.Read… Read more »