February 24, 2008 – 11:33 pm
I may be completely biased, but TransitCampBayArea totally, completely exceeded my own expectations for the event. And the way that I’m biased is that I quite often hate my own events. In fact, I’m disappointed in them about 75% of the time. (I clearly put too much pressure on myself and have too high of [...]
February 3, 2008 – 10:37 am
Did I say something funny? by Capn Madd Matt on Flickr
Chris and I presented a workshop at Web Directions North this week we had originally titled, “The Enterprise and Government in the 2.0 Era: What’s Next?”
Boring, eh? Well, we thought so. So, we sat down a couple of weeks ago to restructure the information we [...]
October 30, 2007 – 9:22 pm
Recently, I heard the awesome Gustavo Esteva speak about his experiences with multiple uprisings in Mexico. What struck me was how empowered he described Mexicans as being. At one point, he compared the citizen engagement to the story of the Wizard of Oz:
[paraphrased] Government is much like the Wizard of Oz. Just like the scene [...]
For those of you who don’t follow my SlideShare account, this was the Keynote presentation I gave at the recent GOVIS conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Because the video doesn’t currently embed:
1. The Day of the Longtail By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum
2. What the Heck is BarCamp? [...]
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