In case you haven’t seen, there’s a very interesting event coming up this week. The Deliberative Democracy Workshop “Connecting Research and Practice” will take place February 3-5, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. An invited workshop, it will bring together some of the leading researchers and practitioners in this field from around the world. The expected keyRead… Read more »
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“This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers…”
Yes, we have all come through hard times at least once before. Troubles come and go, but we do go on. Carl Sandburg said it more eloquently than that (see the title above), but we all know what he means – and more importantly – what it means to us personally. We remember how itRead… Read more »
The Federal Coach: Spurring Innovation in Your Government Agency
As I listened to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week, my ears perked up on a number of fronts, not the least of which was his call for the government to spur American innovation through promising new federal investments in education, biomedical research, information technology and clean energy. Also causing me toRead… Read more »
How Yelp Could Help Save Millions in Health Care Costs
Okay, before I dive in, a few things. 1) Sorry for the lack of posts last week. Life’s been hectic. Between Code for America, a number of projects and a few articles I’m trying to get through, the blogging slipped. Sorry. 2) I’m presenting on Open Data and Open Government to the Canadian Parliament AccessRead… Read more »
Defining Collaborgagement
As I wrote in a earlier posting, I coined the term collaborgagement while attending a session at Content.gov. John Newton (Alfresco’s CTO) commented that the next generation of enterprise IT tools need to serve the middle of the enterprise – the domain of the knowledge workers. These tools need to support collaboration, knowledge management, andRead… Read more »
HR=Humans Represent: Federal IT Employee (or aspiring to be)? Jobs & Money – Are They Yours?
January definitely seems to be the month for the Federal Government as it relates to IT jobs is in the news. A couple of weeks ago I read about the upswing in Federal hiring as it relates to IT workers. Two examples: U.S. Customs & Border Protection’s Office of Information Technology will expand from 1,500Read… Read more »
Five Big Questions About Government Social Media In 2011
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – The Federal government has made a good deal of progress toward being more transparent, collaborative, and participatory during the two years since President Obama took office. However, despite great strides, government practitioners’ use of social media is not very sophisticated, does not take advantage of the latest tactics and tools,Read… Read more »
Democratic Principles
We’re face-to-face again with our love-hate relationship with democratic principles. While politicians, pundits and everyday citizens love to extol the value of participatory governance in the United States and around the world, our foreign policy has focused on American ‘interests’ rather than democratic principles. It’s not surprising this week that Egyptian President Mubarak’s administration isRead… Read more »
Next Recent Changes Camp in New Zealand
Greetings from the last day of of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. The last topic of conversation was were the next event would be and what would be the theme. Suggested was the topic of “research” in New Zealand in mid 2011. One possible area which will be interested isRead… Read more »
Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas Video Review
I am currently a student at The Maxwell School at Syracuse University working towards my Masters in Public Administration. I use this blog to write about my experiences at Maxwell, especially related to social media use in the public sector. You can follow me on Twitter: @pjfiorenza and please feel free to leave some comments!Read… Read more »