Alex Pentland of MIT Laboratory is showing us a map of San Francisco that has different colored dots representing people categorized by behavior. The “green dot people” go to place “x” and then typically frequent place “y” and “z” whereas the “blue dot people” and “red dot people” have different behavior patterns. He imagines aRead… Read more »
Jack Dangermond believes today’s challenge is geospatially enabling Gov 2.0. Geospatial data uses integrated applications to show information from multiple sources. It allows for improved planning, management, and increased efficiency. Unfortunately, the government hasn’t yet brought the data together into one map. Yet, many agencies see data sharing as part of their mission. For example,Read… Read more »
Andrew Turner – Fortius One Geograph is a common pivot point Geotag a lot of data is necessary GIS is moving from map-centric to engaging with stakeholders and ctiziens Serve citizen needs Examples such as TwitterVoteReport Elction monitoring in Afghanistan Open data, open formats Bob Greenberg – Virtual USA – DHS S&T with a numberRead… Read more »
Sponsored by The George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and The School of Media and Public Affairs Friday- September 18, 2009 805 21st Street NW Media and Public Affairs Building First Floor 8:00am to 5:30pm with Reception to Follow Please RSVP by September 14th to [email protected] Featuring Doug Holtz-Eakin, FormerRead… Read more »
Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com: Let’s build an open source car. Let’s jump out of a perfectly good plane. Lets connect small business owners to each other on a local level. Let’s meet up! When can people can do when they are self-organized? TONS! Participation means lending hands not just voices. Meet-up.com’s background. Successful meet-up groups:Read… Read more »
Telling story about LA Times, Apps for Democracy, and Fines…. LA Times had no space to adapt. Apps for Democracy. Understood motive of hackers. Encourage and support motives. Didn’t take credit until after apps were done. Contract to users has to be complete but not too complete. Users are motivated to do things you willRead… Read more »
Crossposted from The Design State When I get involved in a new project, whether it is a completely new site or a redesign, the first thing I do is analyze the content & content expectations of the client and try to figure out the best way to organize things so that the correct information isRead… Read more »
Join Lee Vann for Web Managers University’s Best Practices of Multilingual Websites: http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/wmu/fall2009/bestpracticesofmultilingualwebsites.shtml Do you need to build a multilingual online presence and don’t know where to start? This webinar will provide strategies for building a business case for multilingual websites and for effectively building, maintaining and marketing foreign language sites. Using the exploding U.S.Read… Read more »
Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. Stocks rallied nicely on Friday after a mixed jobs report. The Dow jumped 97-points and the TSP stock funds were up 1.3% to 1.8%. The bond fund was down 0.3%. The number of jobs lost in August wasRead… Read more »
Being a conference or retreat speaker and “Motivational Humorist” sounds like a lot of fun; and it usually is. However, sometimes you are asked to intervene with a group that’s under siege. At these times, the tension and acting out of frustration between management and employees or mistrust within the diverse employee ranks is palpableRead… Read more »