Many IT projects suffer from a lack of clear understanding of how to best motive desired user behavior. People often use terms like “carrots and sticks”, “ensure compliance”, moving people along the “commitment curve”, and “What’s In It For Me (WIIFM)”, but they typically do not understand the fundamental nature of these terms and theirRead… Read more »
As we’ve launched the AwesomeGov fund, I’ve started thinking the best way GovLoop could give back. There are some clear options where one way is to give money… The other is to give time. Usually pick one or the other..I think we should do both. What do you think? How do you give back? Favorite
Gina Trapani, founder of Lifehacker, who wrote the book on Google Wave has a post of case studies about how people are Waving. Real user studies provide many things we can use. http://smarterware.org/5079/google-wave-in-action-real-world-use-case-studies
Port directors from across the nation talked face-to-face with United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday, February 5, 2010, at the San Diego Convention Center. LaHood attended a special town hall morning session of the first-ever National Port Summit. The event was organized by the Department of Transportation and the Maritime Administration (commonly calledRead… Read more »
Cool video how-tos on “How To – Run a CityCamp” from Steve Clift of e-democracy that is relevant to running any barcamp Favorite
The White House required all agencies to establish websites for sharing ideas using the free IdeaShare system. They are all now up and listed at http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/open/tool_agency_poc.shtml. Now is the time to share your ideas with your agency officials. Don’t be shy!
If you’ve been a member of one of Andrea Schneider’s groups, you know why Andrea hosts some of the most fascinating conversations on GovLoop. The titles alone may entice you to join: – Evaluation: The Data and The Story – Social Networking, Leadership and Innovation in the Applied Setting – Who’s Running the Show? ARead… Read more »
It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk from www.tsptalk.com. It was an interesting week for the stock market. The losses were not overly extreme, but the action sure was. For the week, the C-fund was down 0.68%, the S-fund lost 1.29%, and the continued strength in the dollar pushed the I-fund down 3.11%. The F-fundRead… Read more »
So the Census Bureau decided to spend $2.5 million to run an ad last night during SuperBowl XLIV, which caused some on Capitol Hill to finger wag about the investment and poor reviews from ad experts. Fair enough, we should be questioning how our government agencies spend taxpayer money as they strive to meet theirRead… Read more »
Note: I’m live-blogging today’s sessions at the Gov2.0 L.A. City Camp. Our twitter hashtag is #gov20la, and since I’m live-blogging this post is incomplete. Please check back next week for the edited version with more links, plus video, audio, etc. This post references the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government 2.0 Research Survey. If you haven’t takenRead… Read more »