This morning Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the winners of the Mayors Challenge. The press release can be found below, and I am excited to see how the projects shape up. I’ll dive into the projects a little more later this week, but wanted to share quickly some resources and information on the 5 winners: Providence, RIRead… Read more »
Good Morning GovLoop!! This next in the series of blog posts by Deloitte’s Immigration Community of Interest (iCOIN) makes the case for why going social would make immigration and citizen services more effective. A key point is the need for Federal agencies going social to interact with citizens, immigrants, and visitors: not just broadcast toRead… Read more »
This week March 11th is Sunshine Week, a national initiative which promotes the importance of open government and freedom of information. Communities across the country are adopting open government policiesthat commit to putting more government data and information on-line. Information such as building permits, restaurant health inspections, and crime statistics are readily available in manyRead… Read more »
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) came onto the scene with a force and soon cropped up fans across the private and public sectors. It was a no brainer to think that employees didn’t want to use clunky, out-of-date, company-owned devices when there was an option to use their own sleek, new gadgets. In today’s workRead… Read more »
“Facebook announced a redesigned News Feed–a radical makeover of their core product at the heart of their homepage. The big changes are easy to spot. The feed is now a unified design between desktops and mobiles, its images are bigger, and every bit of information is more personalized at the user’s end,” said Mark Wilson.Read… Read more »
We have come a long was from the first pages built and shared on the internet. Remember when you had to type in “Click Here” to guide users to clicking on a link if they wanted to open and read a report? Now everyone knows what underlined text means on a website. Design for theRead… Read more »
Yesterday the MongoDB Days tour made a stop in Washington, DC at the Newseum for a full day event around their NoSQL database. While the entire day was jam packed with valuable content and information, here are the main takeaways… JP Prochazka, of RadiantBlue, summarized the main features of MongoDB in relation to GeoSpacial uses.Read… Read more »
By ChrisScott Consolidating data centers has always made sense. Having the data securely tucked away into well-managed data centers has got to improve performance and even cyber security. It will also require fewer of those really smart, well-trained (expensive) system administrators to keep things straight. And if done right, it should save on energy costsRead… Read more »
Last week we told you about TopCoder. (You can access the entire interview here). But basically TopCoder is member based group of more than 460,000 coders from around the world, that harnesses the power of crowd-sourcing to achieve goals. It seems fairly straightforward right? But, Mike Lydon, the Chief Technology Officer, told Chris Dorobek onRead… Read more »
Driving that final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad. I had a great conversation last week with one of my direct reports and our CEO. As those of you who know me well, you understand that I am a traditional capitalist. I understand the depths of industrial risk and expansion that helped build the US economyRead… Read more »