Originally posted on Not So Random Thoughts on March 18, 2010: Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting and receiving a personal tour of the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress (LoC). I was overwhelmed by the impeccable detail and amazing beauty everywhere I turned. The Jefferson Building has to be one ofRead… Read more »
Calls for more government efficiency come not just from the public, but also from the public servants who make government’s day-to-day operations possible. Some of the best ideas come from the people who intimately know the processes that could be improved. However, implementing those ideas often requires jumping several, tall hurdles. In an unfortunate caseRead… Read more »
Live blogging at Sunlight Foundation event. Public = Online Public Square project Google Public Works LabCato Institute Jose Antonio Vargas Jake Brewer of Sunlight doing kick-off… Brian – Pittsburg. Citizen platform Google Research – started as 20% effort. How hard to find voting locations. So they worked on it. -School comparisons – hard to doRead… Read more »
Today I am conducting a tutorial on the “Basecamp” web application from 37 Signals. On the surface, Basecamp is a web-based project management application that is insanely easy to use, straightforward, and truly geared to making you and your team more productive (rather than to packing as many features as possible into a single product,Read… Read more »
Blogger Bob Curtis was a recent guest speaker at the Society for Technical Communications awards luncheon in Washington DC. Bob manages the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) social media strategy and content. And he is the lead author of The TSA Blog. Bob told stories and offered tips to bloggers—especially for those who handle sensitiveRead… Read more »
In government, where change is recurring and often stressful to the employees affected, Web 2.0 can be a tough sell. One of the biggest hurdles in implementing technology in the workplace is not resistance to technology per se, but the cultural shift that the new software represents. But when a technology is introduced which replicatesRead… Read more »
Post by Jennifer Leggio, ZDNet How Cirque du Soleil is using a mix of blogger relations and social network outreach to help grow attendance for all of its home and traveling shows. http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=2551&tag=nl.e539
Martha Coakley continues to look for ways to innovate, to find better ways of achieving the goals associated with her role as Attorney General of Massachusetts. I was fortunate enough to get her insights on a number of questions, I hope you learn as much as I have. Q. What are your thoughts on governmentRead… Read more »
A month ago, I had the opportunity to attend a standing-room-only business meeting with members and supporters of Minorities in Technology Sales (MiTS), a non-profit organization led by Mark Hill, Executive Director. This meeting was exceptionally hosted in first-class facilities by Gary Newgaard, SVP of Corporate Development at ASRC Management Systems in Greenbelt, Maryland. TheRead… Read more »
The Government Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, came out with a report, discussed on Informationweek, which finds several faults with the USASpending.gov web site. The GAO nails the site in terms of both data quality and quantity. While the report is dead on in terms of those issues, lets take a minuteRead… Read more »