Yesterday I saw this academic journal article and was reminded about how an individuals behaviour can negatively impact and groups productivity. In his article “Overlooked but not untouched: How incivility reduces onlookers’ performance on routine and creative tasks.” in the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (109: 29-44) Amir Erez describes how even just witnessing [...]
Entries from August 2009
SXSWi Panel: Fostering Collaborative Open Source Communities
How to Engage Citizens on a Municipal Website…
Sometimes, it’s nice to be small, the City of Nanaimo has been pushing the envelop on open data and open government for a number of years now. Recently, I was directed to their new Council Agendas and Minutes webpage. I recommend you check it out. Here’s why. At first blush the site seems normal. There [...]
How bad design led to a lost decade
First, I’m away on vacation (hence the scarce number of posts) and am consumed writing a few chapters for a couple of books that I’m contributing to – more on those in the near future I hope. In the interim, I became profoundly depressed this morning after reading the passage below. I’m certain that history [...]
Opendata & Opencities: Proposed panel for SXSWi
Over the past year I’ve been inspired by the fact that an increasing number of cities are thinking about how to more effectively share the data they generate with their citizens. As most readers of this blog are probably aware, I’ve been engrossed advising the Mayor’s Office here in Vancouver on the subject and am [...]
Neo-Progressive Alert: The NDP as risk-averse conservatives
As some of my readers know, I’m always interested in articles that highlight how all the political parties in Canada (and the US?) have become conservative. Not necessarily in the sense that they want to roll back government, but in the sense that they cannot not imagine some new future. I think the classic example [...]
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