One of the greatest freedoms I have experienced is accepting how much I don’t know. In humbly coming to the realization that each person I encounter has a gift or piece of wisdom to offer me, I have opened to the wonder of exploring the world in an entirely new way. Through these experiences IRead… Read more »
Gary Locke is the 36th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He previously was a two-term governor of Washington and is the first Chinese-American in history to serve as governor. Secretary Locke is the presidential nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to China. What leadership lessons did you learn as governor and how are you applyingRead… Read more »
***Part of our month-long series on Creating a Digital City with PDF – Check out all our analysis*** As municipalities across the country are exploring how to use the Internet to make theirs better places to live, some winning combinations of talent, policy and technology are beginning to emerge — as are problems with otherRead… Read more »
The selection of effective and good topics are some of the initial challenges faced by university students who have to write economics essays. However, the selection of good topics for an economics essay would not be difficult if those students knew and performed some basic research about economics. They could do some topic research fromRead… Read more »
I’ve been grateful enough that several student groups have asked the assistance of Orange Husky Productions. OHP is a fictitious (but very real to me!) student group that a friend and I started – we make movies/promos for Maxwell School student groups. It’s a funny story how we founded the “company” and thought of theRead… Read more »
We’re glad to share this announcement from the Power of Innovation program at Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation: “The Power of Social Innovation Series continues this month with practitioner-led webinars on timely on education reform and economic development. As you well know, most valuable lessons about innovation come from practitioners themselves. OurRead… Read more »
(First posted on “Cloud Musings on Forbes“) Today I spent six hours in downtown DC at the first quarterly technology educational seminar and IT Expo to be held by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Information Resource Management. Keeping with the bureau’s mission “to empower diplomacy, consular services, and development, by providing access toRead… Read more »
On March 24, Facebook rolled out the Questions feature to all its users. It’s a new way to ask and get answers from your friends or fans on Facebook. For government, this could be a great opportunity to get direct feedback for Product development How can we improve our current website? How difficult was itRead… Read more »
This is a post about my boyfriend. It’s also a post inspired by Matthew Taylor’s recent blog post on the RSA site about ingenuity. I think differently. But so does my boyfriend. And we are not the same and it’s not just biological or temperamental. It’s literally, a different way of thinking differently. I don’tRead… Read more »
The launch and initial social innovation matchmaking activities hosted by Code for America, at their San Francisco headquarters on April 5th, will be the first public unveiling of the new Simpl platform. This important milestone is the result of a partnership between public sector consultancy FutureGov and government marketing experts Rock Creek Strategic Marketing. FindRead… Read more »