by Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. http://www.ddmcd.com The following is another section from Part 3 of my series “Toward a Definition of Enterprise Mobility.” I’m reposting this here from Google+ at the suggestion of Peter Tuttle, who recently made me aware of how GovLoop has been reorganized. This discusses the second of ten possible requirements forRead… Read more »
As we’ve seen, social media is an amazing tool for any organization, but sometimes it’s difficult to know what to do with it. When thinking about social media, ask yourself these three questions: Do I know what my peers in local government are doing to streamline communications? Am I utilizing social media to reach moreRead… Read more »
It’s Friday, and the Oscars are coming up. Normally that doesn’t mean much for a blog that focuses on green, but today that’s different. That’s because today we’re sharing an Academy Award-Nominated (2011) documentary about a heavily polluted area of China called Quigang. The Warriors of Qiugang “tells the story of how the villagers foughtRead… Read more »
Are you the kind of D&Der who sometimes finds yourself at conferences and meetings suggesting NCDD’s resource center or events (or NCDD in general) to people you meet? Well first of all, THANK YOU! Nothing is more powerful than word-of-mouth for getting people to dip their toes into this funny-named network of ours — andRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda On Twitter and NPR: The State Department’s use of social media was featured in an extended piece broadcast on NPR. Is that kind of coverage a metric of social media impact? From the Cloud to Your Pocket. This week, Gov.AOL published two pieces on the federal government’s movement toward mobile. The first, aboutRead… Read more »
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While you may be able to download an application that turns even your crappy cell phone pics into something hipsters will rave about on Facebook, or transform your worst karaoke showing into a pop song that would make Bieber proud, there isn’t an app on earth that can make you a better critical thinker, orRead… Read more »
NCDD blogger Susanna Haas Lyons posted this to the NCDD Community blog a couple of months ago, and it needs indexed here in the Resource Center as well… In December 2012, Alberta Climate Dialogue released a series of short videos exploring the benefits of deliberative democracy, featuring well known practitioners such as Matt Leighninger (DDC),Read… Read more »
The way we do business has changed and continues to evolve. The change and evolution, however, is not evenly distributed and is confusing about what the ‘right’ path is. When I learned to drive, the car had a ‘stick shift’ (manual transmission). As I was perfecting the skill of keeping my heel on the brake,Read… Read more »
This announcement from the rom the eRulemaking Program Management Office comes from NCDD sustaining member Alexander Moll, Communication Specialist at the Environmental Protection Agency – eRulemaking Branch… WASHINGTON – In recent months, the eRulemaking Program, a Fed-wide E-Gov and Open Gov initiative, which manages Regulations.gov has met with various groups and organizations to discuss waysRead… Read more »