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This week took a bit longer to finish, here is the tail end of the review. I won't get too detailed but I thought I would share what is by far one of the most appropriate quotations from a the book I came across. [read more]
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Congratulations to Joe Anderson, Liverpool's new Mayor. Having a directly elected civic leader - almost regardless of which party holds the post - will be good news for the city. But there's no getting away from it. Yesterday, voters in Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham and Bradford rejected the idea of directly elected mayors. Birmingham... [read more]
While the US is in delicate negotiations over what to do about blind Chinese dissident lawyer Chen Guangchenq, Mitt Romney has jammed his thumbs into the eyes of his own country in its dealings with a foreign power. [read more]
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I had an enjoyable time on Saturday at the Talk About Local unconference, where lots of people involved in hyperlocal websites get together to share stories and experiences and to figure out answers to tricky questions. There tends to be two angles with hyperlocal – the future of local journalism stuff which I tend to find rather dull... [read more]
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A healthy society is composed of people with healthy minds as well as healthy bodies. And that includes the ability to talk about what's bothering us. [read more]
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The Atlantic published a great piece last week by Eric Garland entitled Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber, here's a particularly powerful excerpt: "Hierarchical organizations have a very different logic than smaller firms. In less consolidated industries, success and failure are largely the... [read more]
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Information wants to be free may be a slogan that is en vogue with technology activists but it is also a slogan that diametrically opposed to how bureaucracy actually works. [read more]
What is especially beneficial about cultural diplomacy programs like the ones in which these women participated is that they provide a high return on a low investment. [read more]
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States are moving toward health care reform but not without significant challenges. Nearly every aspect of federal health care reform legislation has been politicized and yet federal deadlines loom large. Federal health care reform legislation created new and significant requirements for states to comply with leading many states to... [read more]
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Congress may be moving forward on the public safety broadband network, but some Governors say that there isn’t enough involvement from state officials – the primary users of the proposed network. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Wyoming Gov. Matthew Mead (R), co-chairmen of the homeland security committee of the National Governors... [read more]
An announcement earlier this month that the federal government will not establish a national health benefits standard to go along with requirements in the new health care reform law is already impacting some state insurance exchanges. Oregon exchange director Howard “Rocky” King, called the decision “a grenade.” The Obama administration... [read more]
On Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called on its members to defend Internet freedoms. “It’s really a milestone in terms of making a statement about openness,” said Karen Kornbluh, the U.S. ambassador to the O.E.C.D., quoted by Eric Pfanner in the New York Times. “You can’t really get the innovation... [read more]
Given our propensity for micromanagement I suspect many will look at the idea of micro-tasking with come skepticism, but I think the idea is worth exploring (as do others). A primer For the uninitiated, micro-tasking is simply the breaking-down of more complex tasks into smaller, more manageable chunks. The most widely talked about... [read more]
Policy Informatics Book Chapter: Knowledge Incubation in the Public Sector – Ines Mergel. I am participating in book project that is featured over on the “Policy Informatics” blog. Here is the abstract for my chapter to be published in 2012: The use of social media applications has become acceptable practice and is adopted by many... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...