ELGL is hosting its inaugural conference on October 4 at the Kennedy School. In the coming weeks, the conference planning committee will begin rolling out the details. For now, we want to acknowledge Cosgrave Vergeer Kestler and Key Bank for being the first two companies to sign on as conference sponsors. ELGL corporate members areRead… Read more »
This is part 1 of 3 of a blog series, Smarter Cities: Building Safer Communities in the Digital Age. This series explores how analytics has empowered the street level bureaucrat, redefining the way public safety officials keep communities safe. Across the country, public safety organizations have leveraged crime analytics to improve efficiencies, connect workers andRead… Read more »
Please check this out for samples of Logic Models from Unversity of Wisconsin: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodelexamples.html
In less than a decade, the world has moved from a time with no Facebook to a time in which mobile phones and tablets are the platforms of choice. In fact, 45% of adults own a smartphone and 30% own a tablet, and many of these people are using these devices for everything- work, social,Read… Read more »
Mahatma Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” We’ve all heard that a thousand times. Yet have you ever stopped to consider the implications of truly BEING the change? For the Conscious Leader, BEING the change is a tall order, and it requires 3 key elements that may not beRead… Read more »
Data is not a service. Service is not data. Knowledge is power, but it’s not always very much power. My default mode of transport in London is the bus. Having information about when the next bus is coming has been exciting and empowering, even if the shine has worn off a little bit. But I’mRead… Read more »
No one doubted that Oprah Winfrey would wow Harvard University in our nation’s springtime tradition of commencement addresses by celebrities of various stripes and vocations. True to any speech that resonates with audiences it is not only the truths with dustings of humor, it is the glimpses of the people delivering them that keeps usRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Alicia Saia, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector at MarkLogic. Alicia and I talked a lot about how MarkLogic is helping to change the way people look at data, how it integrates with their current generation and legacy systems, and how MarkLogic is helping agencies and corporationsRead… Read more »
Great talk by Beth Noveck of NYU’s The Gov Lab at Personal Democracy Forum 2013 on how to fundamentally rethink the process the way government works with citizens and how to solve public sector problems. Great examples from Innocentive to Kaggle to Zara to Challenge.gov to truly reimagine how government works. More GovLoop on SocialRead… Read more »
The Center for Priority Based Budgeting is extending its social media discount to ELGL members! If you register for their conference “A Summit of Leading Practices” by 2pm on Friday, June 14th you’ll receive a 20% discount on the cost of admission. For more information and to register visit their website. Original post