The work we are doing on the content strategy is very much about actually doing a bunch of work whilst I write the strategy down. One area where is has been the case is with the councils news and press stories – this week we launched a new News Centre (see below) which was builtRead… Read more »
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Requests for Endorsements: My Application to Attend The Open Government Partnership
Dear friends, Below (first in english then in a rough french translation – my spoken is much better than my written so I’ve relied on Google translate) is my application letter to attend the April 16-18 Annual Open Government Partnership meeting in Brasilia as a Civil Society Representative. The first reason I’m posting this isRead… Read more »
Interesting elsewhere – 3 February 2012
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Top Ten Tips from Mobile Web Experts – Forbes Don’t just scale down your desktop site and try to squeeze as much as you can into the little screen. Use the mobile development process to prune your offerings to the most essential. The next step |Read… Read more »
How should agencies moderate their online channels?
While government agencies often have limited options in the approaches they choose to use for moderating third-party social media channels, there’s a number of ways they can choose to moderate channels under their control, including blogs, forums and wikis. There’s limited official guidance, and no real mandates or instructions for particular moderation approaches available acrossRead… Read more »
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch
As you watch the video below you can form your own conclusions about this natural evolution of robotics. But I’ll give you some of my opinions below the video: http://youtu.be/YQIMGV5vtd4 Now some context: As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use case for incredibly capable systems like this willRead… Read more »
Use The Economist’s Data to Find the Best City in the World
Yesterday The Economist Intelligence Unit and Buzzdata launched a $10,000 contest to help enhance The Economist’s “Best city in the world” index. Yes. It’s a data and visualization competition to identify the best city in the world to live. As part of the contest, The Economist Intelligence Unit has shared two data sets, its “liveability”Read… Read more »
Data.gov launches business community, adds more open data
Just after midnight last night, here on the East Coast, a new part of Data.gov went live. http://www.data.gov/business Politico’s @MorningTech reported this morning that around 200 new datasets were released to the public. At present, I’m seeing 120 datasets, most of which relate to the agricultural industry, census data or import/exports:http://www.data.gov/communities/node/244/data_tools?itemcount=100&tid=&keys=&field_categorization_value= US CIO +Steven VanRoekelRead… Read more »
Adapting KUALI financials for cities: Marin County is looking for Partners
Readers of my blog will be familiar Kuali – the coalition of universities that co-create a suite software core to their operations – as I’ve blogged about several times and argued that it is a powerful model for local governments interested in rethinking how they procure (or really, co-create) their software. For some time nowRead… Read more »
Key Strategies for Successful Online Deliberation and Collaboration
In the United States we have witnessed in recent years a growing interest among leaders at all levels of government in employing online tools for deliberation and collaboration. These tools certainly do not offer all the benefits of face to face dialogue, and substantial sectors of any given community face significant obstacles to interacting online.Read… Read more »
Like me, Canadians prefer Patriots over Giants this sunday (or so says Google data)
After a rough bought of food poisoning… I’m back. For some random reasons I got a PR notice from the people at APEX communications in Toronto who Google insights to see which of the two Superbowl NFL teams Canadians were searching for more. So… okay, just Canadians searched more for the Patriots doesn’t mean thatRead… Read more »