It turns out that Santa, with the help of some terribly two clever elves over at Montreal Ouvert has created an Open Data inspired present for Montrealers. What, you must ask could it be? It’s PatinerMontreal.ca It’s a genius little website created by two Montreal developers – James McKinney and Dan Mireault – that scrapesRead… Read more »
FedinsiderTrying to change the government is like running up a hill that gradually gets steeper. The going gets more difficult and eventually you tire out. Two years since President Obama was inaugurated, his team managing the government itself has been stable. And it enters 2011 still having pretty good momentum. The one big change wasRead… Read more »
Prizes and competitions provide one way to stimulate innovation and tap “solver communities” that may not have been leveraged previously when considering some of our nation’s grand challenges. As I wrote this past summer, both on my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, thereRead… Read more »
San Francisco’s always been a special place for movie buffs. And now the City’s Film Commission is opening up its treasure trove of historical information to application developers. As part of the City’s signature “open data” initiative, the commission this week posted information on more than 800 San Francisco locations used in movie shoots fromRead… Read more »
Hola and Feliz Navidad from 35,000 feet as I blog on my return flight from Bogota, Colombia where I return with sunburn, coffee and new perspectives after working with the government of Barranquilla to combat devastating floods in the country. Exactly one week after witnessing the Army Corp of Engineers’ giant levee plug in Vicksburg,Read… Read more »
Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, joins leaders like Microsoft, IBM and Netflix in Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing environment. 2010 has been a banner year for Newton. We’ve added over 120 new customers and our revenue has grown by over 1000%. We’ve anticipated moving Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, to the cloud for aRead… Read more »
This morning, the White House new media team tried something a bit different: live questions and answers on Twitter, with Roberts Gibbs (@PressSec) replying to users with their @ handles. I was happy to be one of them. I wrote up a quick story using Storify, the online media curatio tool, but I can’t embedRead… Read more »
No real blog this week from the Government Man. It is time to wish all of my friends, followers (and critics) a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (as politically incorrect as that wording might be today). No blogs, no comments and no postings today. No biting political satire, no outlandish stories or sports analogies,Read… Read more »
Dear Santa, I’ve been pretty good this year. I completed a year of public service through AmeriCorps, I started Graduate School at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, and I moved out of my parents house. So, this year I am not asking for much, just that the City of Syracuse become a beta city. “Beta City”Read… Read more »
Entrepreneurs, investors, dreamers, and others spend a lot of time trying to figure out the next new businesses. Will Rogers said investing was simple. Buy low, sell high. If it doesn’t go up, don’t buy it. This week I’ve seen several indicators of where profitable businesses are growing, in a stagnant economy with uncertain capitalRead… Read more »