Calling all citizen developers who may be interested in some pro bono geektastic work. The Council of the District of Columbia is looking for a few good geeks and geekets to do a pilot citizen engagement app to use within the council member’s office. The idea is to leverage open source hosted platforms or cloudRead… Read more »
For people who are on the cutting edge of the Gov 2.0 movement, we often forget that a majority of government employees are still not enthusiastic about the potential of the new social networking technologies in their workplace. Now many of these folks are using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. to keep up with their familyRead… Read more »
I’m sure many of you will agree with me when I say that Google Docs is an incredible resource. It’s one of the best on-line editing engines available. Google has recently taken Google Docs a step further and has launched a mobile version of the program for Android Devices. According to Technology Punch, this mobileRead… Read more »
I’ve been reflecting lately on my brief sojourn into education reform prior to returning to “the world.” Several things I learned there, including the idea that how brains work and how people interact represent new fields of study to the Field of Education. (With apologies to any of my new Ed friends, please correct meRead… Read more »
“In this world nothing is certain except death and taxes” – Benjamin Franklin Old Ben was pretty close, but he forgot one crucial element: meetings. We all attend them, we often loath them, we often wonder in hindsight if they were actually worth the time. I’m not trying to say that meetings can’t be useful,Read… Read more »
GovLoop’s latest Huffington Post column is live. Here’s an excerpt: Earlier this week, we posed the following challenge to members of GovLoop, a group of nearly 40,000 people who work in and around government: Help TSA Out of This Mess! Share Your Ideas to Improve Travel Right Now! As you might suspect with all theRead… Read more »
Research Digital Divide in Internet Searching (11/2010) – Study examines the digital divide in Internet information searching. Data from 476 Vermont households surveyed in 2009 found socioeconomic and demographic factors such as education level, income, and age. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3118/2649 News Morgan Stanley on the “State of the Internet” (11/16/2010) – Presentation by Mary Meeker calls attentionRead… Read more »
This is a cross post from ryanerickson.com. This is an update to my “how-to” for using a short URL (or any URL) with your favorite blogging platform and a multitude of social networks. In my last post on the subject I was making use of a the plugin ‘Shorten2Ping’ by Samuel Aguilera; well, I’m sorryRead… Read more »
Trezza Media Group released the latest installment of it’s “On The Frontlines” series of government technology reports. The “On The Frontlines” Publications are dedicated to showcasing the positive progress and best practices of the Federal Government Agencies and their strategic partners in meeting the goals of their Mission Programs and supporting the men and womenRead… Read more »
I’ve been organizing this amazing group of government open source practitioners. Mostly, it’s Drupal, but we do have some plone and joomla folks as well. We have gotten together for show and tells and in September, we held our first coding sprint. At the end of the sprint, we built an open atrium site weRead… Read more »