Gadi Ben-Yehuda Using the Internet to Raise Money for Cities. A few weeks ago, I wrote about “kickstarter for civic projects.” One site that’s doing that, Citizinvestor, is off the ground, with five entries from three cities, including four petitions and only one project. Will it gain momentum? Using Data to Earn Money for Entrepreneurs.Read… Read more »
This week I spoke on a panel at MicroPact’s 462 10th Annual Conference: The Changing Landscape on EEO in the Federal Workplace. Be sure to check out some of the follow up posts from MicroPact by checking out their blog. As I mentioned in a previous post, speaking at events like this are typically oneRead… Read more »
I’ve often argued that a little levity in the office goes a long way. It’s why I made a web comic a while back on the Kubler Ross Model of internet blocking, why I sometimes advocate guerilla tactics in the workplace, and why I launched Gov + Memes. you! by dhammza It’s also why I’mRead… Read more »
One of the perils of the digital age, as traditional media goes digital or goes downhill and more and more people rely on the internet for their daily news, is that countries such as Australia are losing ‘editorial’ control over what news is promoted as the ‘top stories’ each day or what links appear atRead… Read more »
J.J. Colao, Forbes Staff 9/14/2012 @ 10:32AM |339 views With Facebook, Your Recruitment Pool Is One Billion People When Hard Rock Café opened a restaurant in Florence, Italy in the spring of 2011, the company needed to hire 120 people in four weeks. They did it all through Facebook. Using the services of a companyRead… Read more »
I’ve joined e.Republic as its New Media Director! We’re going to expand and continue GovGirl and keep posting videos showing the fun side of government. Keep an eye on http://GovTech.com and http://YouTube.com/GovGirlBlog for more! Original post
The slick new iPod Touch is a needed re-vamp on a (formerly) best selling product…and everyone is raving about the re-designed headphones as well Yesterday, the whole tech world took a little break to listen in on what Apple had to say. Apple released details on three key products, the iPhone 5, the 5th generationRead… Read more »
With this post I would like to introduce two videos I recommend any enterprise technologist watch. Both are from the website at Cloudera.com The first is actually very NON-technical. It is a short, cute (with rainbows and butterflies) cartoon that talks in small words about some key use cases most businesses are experiencing today, andRead… Read more »
Government Open Source Software Policy Training Seminar conducted as part of the Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) program Date: Monday, September 24, 2012 Time: 0800 – 1200 Location: SRI Conference Center 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2800 (28th floor) Arlington, VA 22209 (Map – http://goo.gl/F9pp7) Purpose: The purpose of the HOST Government Open Source Software PolicyRead… Read more »
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Innovation Team is taking new steps to make it easier for people to connect and find information on our innovation activities. As an example, we have used Twitter to promote the first time public voting for selecting input on the HHSinnovates Program. Here are some of theRead… Read more »