Recently, good friend and social marketing thought leader Craig LeFebvre wrote a post on the 10 “What Ifs” for Social Marketing. In the post he discusses his review of the revised version of Nedra Weinreich’s Hands-On Social Marketing book and what he got out of it. After marinating on the book’s content and lamenting theRead… Read more »
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CON 090 Week 3
I’m happy with passing…as is everyone else. That’s because this class is ridiculously hard and its pass/fail. There is no honors program for CON 90, only those that pass and fail at the 80% line. That’s good because it makes us work hard. Hard standards bring good work. That’s the case here. Oh and I’veRead… Read more »
HR=Humans Represent: Public Sector Employment Isn’t So Pretty
This past Tuesday, I read a headline that the United States Postal Service was cutting 10 districts, and 7,500 administrative positions. I thought to myself here we go with Federal layoffs – I’m happy to report this isn’t so! If you research further, these position reductions will take place through attrition as eligible workers retireRead… Read more »
Government In The Trenches (New Blog)
Theodore Roosevelt once made a speech in which he said the following: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose faceRead… Read more »
New Pew survey emphasizes the Internet’s importance in civil society
The role of the Internet as a platform for collective action grows. A survey released this week by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and Life Project shed light on the social side of the Internet. The results offered insight into the differences between the connected and the disconnected, revealing that Internet users are more likelyRead… Read more »
iPhone Users: Rate the State of the Union in Real Time
I’m sure you’ve seen the slider bars and dynamic graphs that TV news organizations use to provide real-time audience and focus group feedback during major speeches and debates. Well, Gov 2.0 Radio is partnering with IdeaScale to promote a new app that allows iPhone users to rate President Obama’s State of the Union address inRead… Read more »
Civic Hackers Invade San Francisco
On the way in to Civic Center this morning, I stopped by the new SoMa offices of Code for America, a non-profit startup that deploys top web professionals in one-year fellowships building Web 2.0 applications for cities across the U.S. The fellows, recruited from around the country, are here for January before heading off forRead… Read more »
The Dilemma of Job Dissatisfaction in the Government
Good Morning Gov Employees If I asked you to describe the person (s) in your office who acts out, complains, performs marginally, causes others to pick up the slack, use leave excessively (particularly, when assignments are due), never feel that the task belongs to them, and on and on, does a particular face come toRead… Read more »
Which students succeed at online learning
Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “Identifying Factors That Predict Student Success in a Community College Online Distance Learning Course” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and OriginalRead… Read more »
Participation, and participating
Recently I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the ‘participation deficit’ – the fact that too few people are contributing too much to society. It’s what informed my post about my view that we need more councillors. No even half baked views or ideas yet, I’m afraid, though I’m mulling over whether to have aRead… Read more »