Today’s lunch session featured, Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress & Successful Young Entrepreneur and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, White House. Matt kicked of the session by stating, “Do not listen when people say this cannot be done,” using his experience at WordPress. Matt mentioned how powerful the internet age has become,Read… Read more »
The Mongols are an extremely violent motorcycle gang in Los Angeles organized over 30 years ago. John Torres, Deputy Assistant Director, Headquarters, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, discussed leadership lessons learned from two undercover cases involving the gang. In 2001, Billy Queen, an AFT agent infiltrated the Mongols successfully for the first timeRead… Read more »
The first panel for day two of the Next Generation of Government was called, How to Drive Big Change in Government. The session abstract reads, “We all want to make a big impact on hard problems but big change in government is tough. In this session, we will talk to senior leaders about how toRead… Read more »
Think back to you last digital engagement project outside Facebook. What did you ask people for? Chances are, you asked for a ‘comment’. Maybe a ‘reply’. ‘Feedback’, perhaps. A handful of you might have requested a ‘submission’. That’s not necessarily wrong – all of those are valid forms of input and depending on the goalsRead… Read more »
Despite popular belief, English is not the universal language of the Internet. The U.S. Government knows this better than anyone, which is why they look to NAICS code 54193 to acquire the services necessary to translate .gov sites into multiple languages. What form do these services typically take? Direct contract labor of course, which isn’tRead… Read more »
Leveraging Social Media Skills Social media has come a long way within government agencies. Two years ago, 55 percent of agencies blocked social media sites and that is down to 19 percent today with some room for improvement. This session provided an overview of the value of digital media, its uses, trends, tips and aRead… Read more »
Mayor Morse is a 23-year-old Mayor from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Morse was born and raised in Holyoke, which is in Western Massachusetts, just outside of Springfield. Morse stated that the city has about 2,000 employees. Mayor Morse was the first in his family to go to college, and graduated from Brown University in 2011. Mayor MorseRead… Read more »
This is the fourth in a five part series, originally published on the Tri Tuns blog. Start at the beginning here. TIMELESS INSIGHT It’s amazing to consider how the insights and teachings of Mark Twain — a man who died decades before modern information systems were even conceived –may hold some of the greatest lessonsRead… Read more »
The internet is an amazing advancement in our do-it-yourself world. We all love being able to go to Amazon or Google or a government website and get it done ourselves, without human intervention. When we go into a store, we don’t like that salesperson who asks, “Can I help you?” We don’t want anyone toRead… Read more »
Is Greenland melting? Has the ice cap suddenly disappeared from this frosty island? That’s the conclusion I drew after skimming DCist this morning, which had the headline: Nearly All of Greenland Melted in Span of Four Days, NASA Finds And then below was this alarming graphic: And here’s the lede: This is kind of scary.Read… Read more »