Are you a public insurgent? Today, a generation of young people are arriving into the public service familiar with all sorts of tools – especially online and social media driven tools – that they have become accustomed to using. Tools like wikis, survey monkeys, doodle, instant messaging or websites like wikipedia, or issue specific blogs [...]
Entries from September 2010
From Public Servant to Public Insurgent
My Mozilla Summit 2010 Talk: Making the Army of Awesome more Awesome
This summer I had the enormous pleasure and privilege of both being at the Mozilla Summit and of being selected to give a lightening talk. Embedded below is the talk – it’s five minutes so won’t take long to watch and is a short and updated version of my community management presentation. There are tons [...]
Right to Know Week – going on Right Now
So, for those not in the know (…groan) this week is Right to Know Week. Right to Know (RTK) Week is and internationally designated week with events taking place around the world. It is designed to improve people’s awareness of their rights to access government information and the role such access plays in democracy and good [...]
Why Blockbuster’s success in Canada is a bad news story
I noticed today in the Globe that while Blockbuster (the movie rental company) has declared bankruptcy in the United States, here in Canada the branch of the company is doing fine, indeed it is still profitable: Blockbuster Canada vice-president and general manager Barry Guest said in a statement early Thursday that its operations are still [...]
Good Backgrounder on Open Data for Cities – (Looking at You #VoteTO)
Yesterday the Martin Prosperity Institute released another installment of its Toronto Election 2010 discussion papers, this one focused on Open Data. For citizens of any city this is a fantastic primer on what open data is, why it matters and, in the case of Toronto, why it should be an election issue in the upcoming [...]
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