By Sam Williford, Associate Consultant Recently, Governor Brown and the California legislature approved a bill that would allow local governments the option not to send out advance notice of public meetings, or provide minutes from closed sessions (known as the Brown Act, not related to the current governor), in an effort to stem the tideRead… Read more »
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Optimal performance, gamification and government
The point of this post:By incorporating some of the characteristics of successful games into our work, we can improve our performance. I’ve been reading a book called Flow: the psychology of optimal experience recently. Reading the book, I was reminded of “gamification”, a concept that you wouldn’t think would have much to do with theRead… Read more »
Voting is a Sacred Trust, Coveted By Billions Who Cannot
Politics are terrible… Voting doesn’t matter… It’s only the primary… I’m too busy… These are commonly heard sentiments of people who don’t vote. Unfortunately, those who choose not to vote are putting their rights, business, property, community and even freedom at risk! Politics can be terrible. But to quote Winston Churchill, who led England toRead… Read more »
Meet the new Cyber Czar (a Putin pal who fights to limit US Cyber interests)
Friend and writer Noah Shachtman has produced a nice piece for Wired Magazine titled “Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals” Most all in the cyber security and national security communities have heard about Kaspersky and I imagine you have familiarity with his software and company and connections to Russian intelligence services.Read… Read more »
Book Club Week 7: Sustaining Public Engagement
For this week’s NCDD book club discussion on Democratizing Deliberation, Jan Inglis offers a summary of the chapter Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities by authors Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung. Jan has a background in applying research in adult development and complexity science to designing public deliberation and decision making processes inRead… Read more »
How to Sharpen Your Job Search
Been hunting for a new job for awhile? Or thinking of starting a job search? Summer is a great time to ‘sharpen your saw’to quote an old proverb. Too many people just update an old resume, tell all their friends that they need a new job, and look at ads online. Not the best methods!Read… Read more »
The local government CIO – We serve the people who serve the people
In my continuing quest to ensure that local governments are recognized for the services they provide to the public, I bring you the first of several profiles of local government CIOs. With limited budgets, constraints from the county and state and under the unending watch of citizens, local technology departments are tasked with providing consistentlyRead… Read more »
DorobekINSIDER: Issue of the week: Making cyber-security work
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek… where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »
Checking In w/ 2011 Fellow Jeremy Canfield
I caught up with 2011 Fellow Jeremy Canfield to see what’s he’s up to and find out what it was like to wear one of those blue track jackets. He’s what he had to say: In 50 words or less describe your Code for America fellowship experience. Unforgettable. What’s it like taking a year offRead… Read more »
Best Practices for Excellent Customer Service in Government
GovLoop Research Report: Re-Imagining Customer Service In Government GovLoop is proud to announce our latest resource, The GovLoop Research Report: Re-Imagining Customer Service in Government. In this report, experts in the field provide insights and best practices to improve customer service in government. This is our fifth and final post, but be sure to checkRead… Read more »