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Monthly Archives August 2009

SXSWi Panel: Fostering Collaborative Open Source Communities

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 [...]

Posted 31 August 2009 | David Eaves § negotiation § open source § technology ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , , , , ,

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 is the standard [...]

Posted 28 August 2009 | David Eaves § open source § public policy § technology ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

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 will [...]

Posted 25 August 2009 | David Eaves § book review § cool links § united states ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,

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 excited [...]

Posted 19 August 2009 | David Eaves § cool links § interesting people § open source § public policy § technology § vancouver ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

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 of [...]

Posted 18 August 2009 | David Eaves § canadian politics ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , , ,

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