Interesting Commentary from the ACM Blog which brings to the discussion table several issues: Are we too connected?How often do you turn off tune out (disconnect) and is there a cost?Is there a practical solution to the almost 24/7 connectivity, or does there need to be? Title: A Connected Life Author: Carlos Brewer Never beforeRead… Read more »
Note – this is crossposted from cpsrenewal.ca. Also note that the visualizations don’t show up for some reason, if you want to see them click here. Full disclosure: I was recently sent advance copies of two reports (canada@150 c/o the PRI and Road to Retention c/o the Public Policy Forum) and asked to blog aboutRead… Read more »
In order to do a good job, achieving true success over a long time, you must always start with a clear understanding of your goals. Yes, I will continue saying that until everyone I talk to repeats “start with the goal in mind”. Please repeat after me…. Start with the goal in mind. Jess Weiss,Read… Read more »
Microsoft Research came out with some very interesting research looking specifically at the act of retweeting on Twitter. If you’d like to read the full paper it is available for download in PDF format. Note that the following Twitter pros were behind the research: Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research, @zephoria Scott Golder, Cornell / Microsoft Research,Read… Read more »
Hi there Govloop colleagues The CeBIT Gov 2.0 Conference is being held in Canberra this November. Lot’s of speakers. Yours truly will be speaking at the conference from the perspective of Public Servant and Founder, OZloop. I hope I can do it justice. What I intend to do is tell a bit of a storyRead… Read more »
Get your gov on! Candi Harrison: Customers Know Best – It’s Their Results that Count Andrea DiMaio: Open Government … To Whom? Sen. Kate Lundy: The Declaration of Open Government Kevin Merritt: Why Do We Need an Open Data Benchmark Study? Mike Loukides: App Inventor and the culture wars Andrew P. Wilson: The President’s SAVERead… Read more »
On 16 July Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation issued the Declaration of Open Government on behalf of the Australian Government. A fantastic job by many people with talent, foresight, courage and passion. Absolutely fantastic and a breath of fresh air for public servants and the community. Now the hard work begins to createRead… Read more »
I had the pleasure of chatting with Amita Paul, CEO of ObjectiveMarketer. She started the company in August of 2009 and has focused on delivering a solid tool for Enterprise users. While the company has focused on the tool first, and not marketing and sales, they have been able to work with customers like Answers.comRead… Read more »
Joe Carmel, formerly of the U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Computer Systems Unit, has posted LegisLink.Org: Simplified Human-Readable URLs for Legislative Citations, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Mr. Carmel describes LegisLink.org, an innovative, collaboratively developed URL redirection service for legislative documents. LegisLinkRead… Read more »
Today, I attended Everything Channel’s 2010 State of the Market presentation, a great annual scorecard on the state of technology solutions provider channels. The typical survey respondent books about $3.5 million in annual revenues, in b-2-b transactions (no retail data here) so it’s a real-world look at issues facing technology solutions providers across many verticalRead… Read more »