This post originally appeared on the Intellitics blog: Looking for Participatory Politicians We know there are a lot of (online) tools for participation available today, and we find out about more examples of how they are being used almost every day. About three weeks ago, someone asked me if I knew of any politicians stronglyRead… Read more »
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Citizen 2.0 or Client 2.0: The Street-Level Bureaucrat and Engagement 2.0
I started my government career as a street-level bureaucrat. In the summer of 1990 I was a paralegal intern for the Richmond, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy. This was a public defenders office that covered four counties and my job was to interview the clients that had been arrested and jailed. I would spend theRead… Read more »
Week 2 of CON 090
Week 2 is over. I’m passing the class now. The first test was a doozy, but the second was much easier. Here are a few notes about week 2. Your research skills you learned the first week are rock solid by this point. This makes week 2 much easier. Your social life doesn’t die, butRead… Read more »
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The TV show, Cheers, ran for eleven seasons during the 80s and early 90s with a tagline that made everyone feel good…‘where everybody knows your name.’ A group of unlikely friends went through some good times and some bad times while making us laugh…and these characters became part of our lives, because we knew theirRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Roundup: Week of January 14
Drupal comes to Capitol Hill, on the lookout for civic innovation, and rulemaking 2.0, all in this week’s edition of the Gov 2.0 Roundup. –If you thought the White House and Congress couldn’t agree on anything, think again. The U.S. House of Representatives announced this week that Drupal, the platform on which whitehouse.gov is built,Read… Read more »
Weekly Round-up January 14, 2011
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The New York Times reports that our current privacy laws are being obsolesced by the web. Along those lines, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a site that details administration’s plans for trusted online identities. Everyone loves talking about the weather. Now NOAA helps us visualize it. And ifRead… Read more »
Thoughts on my MPA Degree
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 »
Open Source for America Publishes Federal Open Technology Report Card; Rates Agencies on Open Government and Use of Open Technologies
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4969554.htm Open Source for America (OSFA), an organization of technology industry leaders, non-government associations, and academic and research institutions promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. federal government, today published the results of a study measuring openness in government. The Federal Open Technology Report Card evaluated key indicators of open government andRead… Read more »
A Response to a Ottawa Gov 2.0 Skeptic
So many, many months ago a Peter R. posted this comment (segments copied below) under a post I’d written titled: Prediction, The Digital Economy Strategy Will Fail if it Isn’t Drafted Collaboratively on GCPEDIA. At first blush Peter’s response felt aggressive. I flipped him an email to say hi and he responded in a veryRead… Read more »
The Status Report Puzzle
(Project Performance Management Baseline Reporting) By Randy Tangco, PMP, CSM Abstract When I gave my first project status report, I had a shock. I proudly reported that my project is all green. However, the project sponsor responded by saying, “All green? Are you selling Christmas trees or running a project?” ”What does ‘all green’ mean?”Read… Read more »