These are draft notes – please excuse typos. Plenary Dan Kasun, Microsoft Public Sector Key Points: Leveraging technology to make government better and more efficient is to advance ideals of freedom and democracy Time has never been better for mobile computing – we have reached a state in the business where the network is almostRead… Read more »
To Federal HR and hiring managers: The Federal Labor Affinity Group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2026660) at the Professional Outplacement Assistance Center (http://www.dllr.state.md.us/poac/) is looking for speakers in Columbia, MD, on alternate Wednesdays at 9:30 AM. Please let me know who is willing to consider this. Lauren Modine gave a great presentation in February. Thanks!
Yesterday, talk turned to the AV vote – as obviously I am about to get my first taste of local democracy/national democracy in action in our local government elections. As a result of this, we’re all also in Purdah, which means we can’t say or do or retweet anything at all even remotely political. WellRead… Read more »
There was an interesting response to my post on micro-participation, in a number of spaces – which goes to show the value in seeding your content on sites other than your own! The most active conversation was on GovLoop where the concept of micro-participation seemed to strike a chord with many people. Even better, itRead… Read more »
Daniel Martin Katz, of the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems and Computational Legal Studies, has posted Quantitative Legal Prediction, slides from his presentation at NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at Boalt Hall, Berkeley, California, USA. The presentation describes a model for theRead… Read more »
I still remember where I was 4 years ago when this tragedy happened… I was working right across the hall from Govloop. Here’s the video of the speech from Nikki Giovanni. The transcript is below, courtesy of Virginia Tech. I think I cried during this speech… several times. And we did prevail. Go Hokies!! WeRead… Read more »
LexPop.org is a new wiki-based website that invites participants to collaboratively craft public policy. LexPop’s About page points out that, despite sea-changes in how we communicate with one another, how we seek information and how we are entertained (all due to constant innovation), we make public policy in essentially the same way we always have.Read… Read more »
Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight five members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. 5. The Most Commented Blog goes to Paid vacation. So how many you were secretly hoping the shutdown happened because you needed a couple daysRead… Read more »
Another event-pimping guest post, this time from Sharon O’Dea. Contrary to popular belief, webbies aren’t always glued to their screens and hidden away in dank basements. They love to get out and about and network with their peers. It all began with UKGovCamp, a one-day event for public sector digital types. These events – nowRead… Read more »
Or not… Road warriors and the impulsive beware! While buying on credit here and there might seem like a harmless activity, you might want to think twice about whose card you pull out of your wallet next time. It could soon cost you your job! There’s nothing like a credit card to give one theRead… Read more »