Aphorism 54
Nudge is not enough to change behaviour on its own. Sometimes you need to bribe and threaten people too. Flip Chart Fairy Tales (introducing his blog post, Nudge is not enough on its own) Original post
How using a marketing approach can help open data
One of the biggest barriers to the growth of the open data movement in my opinion is that nearly every open data related meeting/event is still comprised primarily of data geeks and app developers. The language that is used by this community (e.g. machine readable data, open access, genomes, geo-spatial, etc…) confuses the typical non-geekRead… Read more »
Go Away and Other Advice for Graduates
A little known fact about GovLoop Founder Steve Ressler is that his sister (moi) is an English teacher, and that I too have my own website (it’s just not nearly as popular) called VocabGal about teaching vocabulary. However, I mentioned to Steve that I could write occasionally for his website about different crossover issues likeRead… Read more »
GovBytes: Midtown in Motion Helps Ease NYC Traffic Congestion
Most cities get clogged up with traffic during rush hour, but New York City is one of the worst as a multitude of cars, buses, and people converge at the end of the day. In order to combat congestion, the city has rolled out a real-time traffic monitoring system that allows workers to remotely adjustRead… Read more »
Wisconsin budget measure to increase transparency
Tweet Print PDF Wisconsin is working to increase its budget transparency with a new measure passed along with the budget. Under the terms of the bill state agencies will be required to post information online anytime they spend over $100. However, government watchdogs are skeptical that the measure will actually result in increased transparency. Currently,Read… Read more »
Measuring Performance in Networks
Two of the stumbling blocks to expanding the use of collaborative networks in government are: how do you figure out what works? And, how do you create accountability? The IBM Center has sponsored a series of reports in different policy arenas over the past decade that look at the creation and use of collaborative networksRead… Read more »
EIA Charts Wind Energy Growth
Last week, the EIA released two great charts that display the expansion of the country’s wind energy capacity in the years after 2005. In the chart above, 2009 stands out as a particularly great year for wind. But 2010 did not build on the momentum from 2009; why? According to the EIA’s brief text thatRead… Read more »
Help us, help you – what are your training needs?
Web Manager University is looking for your feedback! As we gear up for the 2011-2012 WMU Training Schedule, we’d like to hear from you! What are your training and learning needs? How can we better partner with you and your agency? In what ways can we provide our services to meet your digital government andRead… Read more »
Social Security for the Twenty First Century
Please visit my blog at http://ephraimfeig.wordpress.com What do you do when things are deteriorating, service delivery costs are increasing, workers are getting more pressured and frustrated, an avalanche of retirements is looming, workloads are increasing, budgets are getting squeezed, and the more you try to fix things the worse they get? What if you alsoRead… Read more »
Trends on Tuesday: How People Use Their Phones
ABI Research reports Almost three quarters (73%) of mobile phone users (both smartphones and other types) in the United States use their phones to visit social networking sites daily, sometimes more than once each day. Other popular activities on mobile phones include Checking email (80%) Checking weather and reading news (63% each) Playing music (53%)Read… Read more »