On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Inauguration is a week away. Are you ready for the transition? When it comes to managing during the transition a couple think instantly pop: avoid gossip and do your homework. Click here for the full recap. The City of Santa Cruz is the smallest community to ever partner with Code forRead… Read more »
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The Northern Gateway Brief: Unhappy Political Options & Geo-Political Assessment
I spent much of last week in Alberta which, as anyone who has traveled across Canada knows, is a very different place from BC. While there, it became increasingly clear that talking about the oil sands in general, and the northern gateway pipeline in particular, was verboten. I spent my week in a Fawlty TowersRead… Read more »
A New Year’s Look at Government Communications
A message from NAGC President-Elect John Verrico As we begin 2013, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all members of the National Association of Government Communicators – and those government communicators who are still pondering about joining us – a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Government communicators faced some significant challenges inRead… Read more »
Next steps on NCDD’s response to Newtown shooting
On December 17th (three days after the Newtown tragedy), NCDD launched a collaborative workspace on Hackpad to help the dialogue and deliberation community think through how we might respond — both individually and collectively — to the shooting and all it surfaced. There has been a lot of activity on the Hackpad site at www.bit.ly/natdial,Read… Read more »
Inauguration is coming are you ready?: Plus the DorobekINSIDER 7 Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: As the world has become dependent on IT, so has the federal government. Leveraged effectively, technical tools can engage the public, create cost savings, and improve outcomes. These benefits are obscured by regular reminders that federal IT is fundamentally flawed. It is too big to succeed,” said Zachary Bastian. Find outRead… Read more »
The link between in-memory computing and Big Data success
By RyanKamauff Terracotta offers novel solutions to speed enterprise software Note: excerpted from Terracotta’s blog (here). In the last few posts, we have outlined how in-memory solutions are being adopted in industries such as financial services, travel & logistics, and big pharma to overcome many kinds of Big Data challenges. Here I’d like to shareRead… Read more »
Federal IT is poised to take a huge step into the future
A couple of developments in federal IT have me excited. The Federal IT Shared Services Strategy spells out a way that helps federal agencies to innovate without raising cost by adopting a shared approach to IT service delivery. Then came the Digital Government Strategy, which seeks to build a 21st-century digital government, creating an information-drivenRead… Read more »
RFP from the National Institute for Civil Discourse
Here’s an important Request for Proposals from the National Institute for Civil Discourse (an NCDD organizational member, directed by Carolyn Lukensmeyer). The Institute is looking to create a collection of essays that they will make available that decide to convene discussions around gun violence, and we encourage NCDD members to think about what kinds ofRead… Read more »
Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design issues RFP for rural communities facing design challenges
Here’s an announcement from CommunityMatters, a partnership that NCDD is involved in… The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) is issuing a request for proposals to rural communities facing design challenges to host local workshops in 2013. Successful applicants will receive a $7,000 grant and in-kind design expertise and technical assistance valued at $35,000. TheRead… Read more »
Information Week Review of our Social Media Field Guide
This week, David Carr from Information Week wrote a very comprehensive and thoughtful review of the Field Guide that he titled The Government Leader’s Guide To Social Media. He did a great job of pulling out some of the core elements that we hope to get across to readers with regards to culture change, policyRead… Read more »