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Steve Ressler (@govloop)
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- Founder of http://www.govloop.com - knowledge network for 60k+ public servants. Passionate about public service innovation
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By 2030, it’s estimated that more than 5 billion people will live in urban settings. Therefore, it’s imperative for cities to integrate technology into their infrastructure so that metropolian areas can sustain this rapid growth in population. With hackathons and app challanges, we’ve seen the emergence of civic startups, like SeeClickFix, and we’re now seeing the rise of “civic accelerators.” We all know Y Combinator and 500 Startups — those are stellar accelerators, and they’ve given rise to game-changing startups like Dropbox, Airbnb and Wildfire Interactive, which was acquired by Google earlier this year. Civic accelerators, on the other
By Jeff Blagdon on January 22, 2013 08:47 pm @jeffblagdon 7Comments Publicly-available Census or Department of Energy data can be a powerful tool in the right hands, and the White House wants to help get it there. The inaugural National Day of Hacking from June 1st to June 2nd is inviting everyone, regardless of experience to come together and help "liberate open data," building software that puts the government’s meticulously-compiled facts and figures to good use. Developers could visualize data in new and interesting ways, or build frameworks that
Some would cite 2008 as the year when social media was introduced to government as a viable partner for increased transparency and engagement with citizens and collaboration with each other. You could almost pin the date of their meeting and hitting it off to the Open Government memorandum in January 2008.So that means we've had 5 years for the social media relationship in government to blossom - and it has to a large degree. But not all social media connections have been created equal.In some instances, leadership was on board and drove beautiful, innovative agency-wide initiatives (Retro love song: "I'm so into you.").In other situations, there
As reported by NextGov, yesterday there was a column in Wall Street Journal stating that .gov websites should accept advertisements.In the column, he suggested that IRS could make between $50-100 million in advertising alone from their website.In an interesting pilot study, WA Department of Transportation is working on a pilot of including advertising in their 410 million annual page views - really fascinating study and use case-TSA bins - have Zappos ads in about 10 major airportsBudgets are tight at all levels and may be a way to increase revenue. So what do you think, should we allow advertising on .gov websites? Are their cases where you
Cyberspace has fundamentally transformed the global economy. It's transformed our way of life, providing two billion people across the world with instant access to information to communication, to economic opportunities. And yet, with these possibilities, also come new perils and new dangers. The Internet is open. It's highly accessible, as it should be. But that also presents a new terrain for warfare. It is a battlefield of the future where adversaries can seek to do harm to our country, to our economy, and to our citizens," said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. And it's not just talk about potential dangers. Just last week Iran launched
Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about the big decisions I’ve made in my life. Some choices have changed the course of my career and my life. While others, which felt so grave at the moment, have ultimately turned into minor blips on my radar. When you are deeply invested in the operations of an organization, the challenge becomes that you need be sensitive and realize implications across your team. If you are completely dismissive or unaware of the impact of your actions and decisions, you run the risk of de-motivating your team, and failing to meet organizational goals or objectives. With our decisions and actions, we want to move
One of the questions that my team members and potential employees have asked me a lot over the last few years is "what are you looking for in an ideal employee?" We just finished a performance review cycle here where I worked with a few members of my team on their development plans for the next year. I've also been spending some time identifying and interviewing potential new team members and holding regular mentoring meetings with the members of my team.
There are many resources available for veterans to help them transition back into civilian life. The Department of Defense Office of Warrior Care Policy has dozens of resources designed to help veterans returning from war. One post in particular, Wounded warriors and families encouraged to keep minds and bodies s... states:
“With the serious medical
I had lunch today with Bill Greeves, CIO of Wake County, North Carolina, and author of "Social Media in the Public Sector Field Guide." As we were talking about the use of social media in government, we could not think of any really clear examples where a public sector organization has cited specific, demonstrable results from the use of social media (other than maybe CDC, who puts their metrics out there for all to see). For instance, do you know of any organizations that have:- Run a strategic social media campaign that aimed at hitting a specific number of pageviews, document downloads, or some other clear metric that would indicate successful
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