On January 30, President Obama will answer your top-voted questions in a special post-State of the Union interview from the White House. To participate, visit www.youtube.com/whitehouse and submit your question. YouTube videos you submit will drive the interview and will be used to select a few lucky people to join a live Google+ Hangout withRead… Read more »
As we enter 2012, the pace of change in mobile technologies is on hyper-speed, while government is still moving at the pace of, well, government. Here are some thoughts on how government can catch up with what I call Mobile Development Life Cycle (“MDLC”) 1.0, when MDLC 2.0 is already in full swing: • PhaseRead… Read more »
Just a quick heads up for you public health folks on Twitter – our Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, has joined the platform. You can find her as @SGRegina Did I mention that I am pretty excited about this and looking forward to seeing her updates? I wonder if she is actually behind the tweetsRead… Read more »
Evolution is the beacon of culture, says Bough of Pepsi Co., and it only gets quicker with time, as exemplified by the iPad and other new forms of technology. Children today are being raised on the Internet, iPads, laptops, and X-Boxes. As a matter of fact, children try to swipe magazines and don’t understand whyRead… Read more »
A week or so ago, GovLoop started a discussion on what a government innovation lab would look like. Some great comments on how to build collaborative workspaces but I felt that the discussion missed the greater point of how to make government agencies more innovative. The major problem with innovation labs is that they mayRead… Read more »
As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. “We’ll have our own Wikipedia!” Or Facebook…or Twitter – you name it. Unfortunately, as many have already discovered and many more will continue toRead… Read more »
Maryland is trying to give local business owners more incentive to grow the economy with a series of measures. They’ve launched an online database of all financial incentives available for job creation, and economic development. The database will support a variety of other online tools for business owners, designed to help them while also increasingRead… Read more »
“Just as the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so too do the manifestations of man find nourishment in the visions of our solitary dreamers.” – Wayne Dyer, author of The Power of Intention Today’s aspiring government leaders find themselves too often facing impossible challenges with few resources available to help them. More thanRead… Read more »
Saturday was my first time at TransportationCamp, the unconference that explores the intersection of urban transportation and technology. Original post
I have had a great deal of respect for the Australian Policy Online (APO), produced by the Australian National University and University of Swinburne. For several years the site has been a fantastic venue for serious discussions of public policy options, and a very useful source for policy resources and research. The site also, withoutRead… Read more »