Having recently registered for the ‘Open Government & Innovations’ conference, I decided to finally read “Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation”, a book I purchased after an exciting introductory meeting with the firm IDEO last year. Written by Tim Brown, CEO & President of IDEO, a global design and innovationRead… Read more »
Yes. We got an app for that. Today, we release the GovLoop iPhone app. It’s pretty cool – you can read the latest blogs and discussions on GovLoop, get the top gov’t news via GovZine from all your favorite sites, and also pulls in the top govt Twitter tags. Plus more goodies like key events,Read… Read more »
Those who follow the “Web 2.0” hype know that the hype has moved on. People are talking now about “Web 3.0” or the “Semantic Web”. However, in government, we are behind the times. We’re still talking about “Gov 2.0”. The time has come for us to move on, too. Here in Canada (and in manyRead… Read more »
It’s the heart of the GovLoop philosophy that there are smarter people than the GovLoop team who have great ideas on how to make GovLoop awesome. That’s why we ask questions like “what do you want to see on govloop” and have groups like the GovLoop Community Leaders. As part of this push, I’ve beenRead… Read more »
Online Surveys & Market Research Has anyone not received their Census form yet? How do you feel about having to send in the Census form? To see poll results for week ending 03/28/10, click here.
With Transparency Camp and OpenGovWest there is a lot of excitement brewing about an effort to establish an “open data set” on all government websites in the United States. This is in particularly targeted to making local government, including all those obscure special districts out there, far more accessible to the people online. The publicRead… Read more »
Am I the only one thinking this when seeing Steve’s new avatar over at Twitter? 😀
Inspired by the excellent Joanne Jacobs at the recent Likeminds event in Exeter to think more about the role of games and game play in solving problems and creating solutions. I started to think about how Government in general could be seen as a game so that we could not only engage people in theRead… Read more »
1. What do you do as Program Manager for NIST, and how does that fit into government sector? I run a program called “Complex Systems” within the Information Technology Lab. It’s really a pretty basic research type of program looking at issues such as how to make the Internet run better and trying to understandRead… Read more »
Some folks were meant to take the oath of office. Some were meant to say: “Do you want fries with that?” They are NOT interchangeable. Do you have new hires at your agency come in trying to take charge? With all the focus in colleges on “leadership” we have been getting a few twenty-somethings comingRead… Read more »