Susan Clark says the idea of comparing local democracy to the Slow Food movement came to her while working in her garden. And, why not? Just as many cooks and food lovers have become more intimately involved in local food production, Susan and co-author Woden Teachout saw an opportunity to help citizens sow and growRead… Read more »
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Applying The Crowd Mentality to Tweeting Your Congressman – Plus Your Weekend Reads
If a tree falls in the forest and no one notices does it make a sound? The same same concept is true in the Twitterverse. If you tweet your Congressman and they don’t notice, does your tweet even make a difference? David Moore is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Participatory Politics Foundation. Moore andRead… Read more »
On the other hand. . . . CBG Round-up, 02.21.2014
Gadi Ben-Yehuda On the other hand. . . FCW reports that “U.S. ranks sixth in use of digital government” while FedTech takes “A Look at NASA’s Innovative, Secure Mobility Strategy.” These two themes are reconciled, kind of, in a second FCW article, “Time to raise networking expectations in government“ The power of social media isRead… Read more »
Sponsorship Opportunities for NCDD 2014
Plans are underway for NCDD’s 6th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, to be held October 17-19, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in the DC Metro Area. NCDD conferences bring together 400+ of the most active, thoughtful, and influential people involved in public engagement and group process work across the U.S. and Canada (plusRead… Read more »
Okay to Make Mistakes: Leadership in Innovation
This past Wednesday, GovLoop’s Chris Dorobek hosting another special live edition of the DorobekInsider. In it, Dorobek and his guests discussed the necessity of more innovation in government (For the full recap, click here). Lined up, we had Lena Trudeau, Associate Commissioner of the GSA’s Office of Strategic Innovation and who also runs the PresidentialRead… Read more »
Open Source Isn’t Just for Cost Savings
This is the second installment in a two-part series on open source software (OSS) for enterprise IT. The first installment discussed common myths about the use of open source technologies. “I think the biggest benefit to open source is the ability to move fast and to be agile.” – Andrew Hoppin Last week I hadRead… Read more »
Making Gov Innovations Matter – Plus the 7 gov stories you need to know
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Workforce = mission. If you don’t have the right people it is a recipe for disaster. But getting the recipe right is a huge challenge. So how do you make it work? Insights from the Government Accountability Office. You can find all of our programs online: DorobekINSIDER.com and GovLoop Insights atRead… Read more »
Open Source Myths and Software as a Renewable Resource
This is the first installment in a two-part series on open source software (OSS) for enterprise IT. The second installment features an open source success story in the New York Senate. “The leading innovation in software development today is actually happening in the open source community.” – Adam Clater, Red Hat, Inc. Last week IRead… Read more »
Can Online Comment Sections Be Dialogue Spaces?
Whether we participate in them or not, online comments sections of news and opinion websites are a venue for great dialogue to take place, but too often, they are vitriolic and unproductive. That’s why we wanted to share a great article from the Illuminations blog run by Journalism That Matters featuring thoughts from a numberRead… Read more »
Using the C-Suite to Manage your Risky Business
This article was originally posted by John Lainhart and Dan Chenok on the IBM Center for the Business of Government blog. As the world becomes more digitized and interconnected, the door to emerging threats and proprietary data leaks has opened wider. The number of security breaches affecting enterprises across numerous industries continues to grow, seeminglyRead… Read more »