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Information TechnologyWhy eGov? To assist individual artistsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 19:30.
City of Phoenix offers support for local artists via ICE - Information Community Effectiveness. The following eNews from City Hall highlights "a new pilot grants program designed to assist individual artists living in Phoenix and working in all artistic disciplines." The focus is quite basic and low-level and low-cost - one could say negligible, in the big picture... $10,000 total... yet for individual artists this is a sign the city cares about their development and success. As NEO's Community Partnership for the Arts is now planning how to allocate $100,000s of dollars to artists, it is worth thinking so small with some of that money, to spread the wealth like in Phoenix... How eGov? Most of the world's great governments think OpenSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 18:48.
If you for some reason like Microsoft you will not like this news, or the fact the world's progressive governments are mandating or expressing preferences for eGov development with open source applications and technologies - mandates include in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Why eGov? To thank citizens for jobs well doneSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 17:47.
How do cities encourage and empower residents to be great civil servants - to develop an appreciation for social responsibility? Perhaps through appreciation for jobs well done. The mayor of Baltimore used his "Taking Care of Business" eNewsletter to thank local businesses and 1,000s of citizen volunteers for making their schools better, and below is an eNewsletter from Mayor Rybak of the indisputably effective city of Minneapolis thanking "civic leaers" for their contribution to the quality of life of others in that community - from community gardens and a food co-op to developing a social contract for families to have dinner together at least 4 times a week - it seems the least good citizens deserve from their elected officials is an occassional "thanks for the help". Why eGov? To help citizens find healthcareSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 01/07/2005 - 17:24.
No big surprise NYNY Major Bloomberg is a master of ICE - The content distribution industry is going to evaporateSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 01/06/2005 - 15:58.
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Why eGov? For the safety of neighborhoodsSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 01/06/2005 - 15:37.
The city of Milwaukee is taking a lead leveraging virtual community to make their physical community safer. Their city website based Compass interface “provides additional ears and eyes to watch out for crime and it will help promote neighborhood security� and "marks a significant collaboration between city government and the community, in order to provide more timely and accurate information.� Through Dialogue and Inclusion, Milwaukee is becoming a higher Quality, Connected Place, just like we want to be here. Read more about Compass and see it in action, linked below:
Why eGov? Because some communities C.A.R.E.Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 01/06/2005 - 12:43.
I receive lots of great e-knowledge from the city of Indianapolis, which has great ICE - Internet Community Effectiveness - and they (and other high-ICE cities) use the WWW for more than just political grandstanding. Below is a nice example, where Indy Gov is leveraging their eGov excellence in collaboration with their Colts football team to collect money for Tsunami victoms - Colts C.A.R.E. - (Communities Assisting Relief 24X7, Baltimore Mayor says "Dear Business Leader"Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 01/05/2005 - 22:44.
The first mayor who really stood out to me as a master of ICE - Information Community Effectiveness - who understands TQI, and performance management, and WWW effectiveness and other aspects of organizational and IT excellence, was Martin O'Malley, Mayor of Baltimore (other first choices, Beecham. Palo Alto, and Bloomberg, New York). I'll share more about them and their ICE in the future - for now, consider O'Malley's words below about their innovative program to involve businesses and volunteers in saving their schools: eGovernment - WWW empowering communites and their citizensSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 01/05/2005 - 21:46.
This book provides content and links related to optimizing eGovernment - critical to making NEO a Quality, Connected Place
Phoenix rising - a view from the ashesSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 01/05/2005 - 20:16.
I monitor economic development ICE - Information Community Effectiveness - of the 50 largest cities in America and see many exceptional practices I'll begin sharing here. Today, I received an outreach from the city of Phoenix sent to their "Neighborhood Legislative Updates Mailing List", to which I subscribe. It points out "The State Legislature will convene next Monday, January 10! Through this e-mail alert system, we will provide information on the state legislative session and will continue to share information on neighborhood-related bills that the city of Phoenix is tracking." This is a city governance best practice, both in using IT to communicate with community stakeholders (and they provide many categories of such electronic outreach) and by involving the city community with legislative matters impacting their city and neighborhoods. Consider how important it is for our state to work effectively as a community, yet how often NEOs complain that Columbus doesn't understand our needs - and how little we do about becoming empowered as a voice in state-wide issues? Phoenix uses the internet to empower the people of that community - in more ways than this. ( categories: )
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism - and NEO is blogging and readingSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 01/04/2005 - 01:55.
December 31, 2004, Dan Gillmor ended a ten year gig writing about technology at the San Jose Mercury News and siliconvalley.com to focus on other efforts, including a blog called Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism - A conversation about the future of journalism "by the people, for the people" There, he share fresh insight on a field he knows well, demonstrated in his 2004 book We the Media, and the insight on his blog ranges from developments in open source journalism to the underlying technologies. Why go from the mainstream media to a blog? Read on (and I agree with Dan - stop using PDF for your documents, it is a closed, ineffective publishing medium): A Medium Coming Into Its Own
The graph, from a new study (summary) by the Pew Internet Note: I wish these studies were available in plain HTML, not
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Marc Canter on SXIP, on Gillmor Gang on Digital IdentitySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 01/04/2005 - 01:15.
Marc Canter participated in Steve Gillmor's December 31, 2004 Webcast on Identity Management and posted his observations on SXIP to his blog - this is an exciting evolution REALNEO supports... you'll soon see SXIP enabled and explained further here... for now, here are Marc's opinions: ( categories: )
(ICE) Information Communications Effectiveness now critical to political sustainabilitySubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 23:09.
Information Communications Effectiveness (ICE) is now the key to governmental and political success. The benefit to citizens of effective government technology (IT) and telecommunications - from process improvements and knowledge management to ecommerce, communications, collaboration, individual empowerment and optimal economic development - is so powerful and transformational, it is inconceivable a less tech-savvy up-start could upstage an effective ICE-savvy incumbent. We have never seen an ICE-savvy politician surface in NEO, so all communities here are just waiting for information revolution. Criticality of Internet in bettering life on EarthSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 13:12.
Over the past year everyone in the interconnected world started waking up to the value of Information Technology for individuals to transform every day life on Earth, for good and bad - a point largely demonstrated by the role the Internet and blogs/wikis now play in social organizations. 2004 saw a new dawning of enlightenment. And, overnight, a tsunami taught us that individual IT empowerment is transforming life on Earth for all, evolving us from isolated people and communities to an interwoven fabric of interconnected humanity sharing one planet with personal familiarity with the quality of life of all others. RFID is huge - SCALE value in NEO is largerSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 12/31/2004 - 18:24.
Few people outside the Supply Chain and Logistics Economy (SCALE) realize how huge this industry is in NEO and the world. A hot SCALE technology transforming the industry is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and many NEO economy and technology leaders are exploring how important this "cluster" is to our region's future. ( categories: )
Technology Predictions for 2005 - read those of Daniel Lemire and add yoursSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 12/31/2004 - 11:10.
Here's an interesting posting of 2005 technology predictions from a Université du Québec (Montréal) professor, Daniel Lemire, which are insightful. NEO will be well served with some IT visioning and knowing of developments to expect in the coming year and beyond. Of greatest interest to "REALNEO users", from Lemire, is probably "The Web ( categories: )
Jump Start to help convene NEO's social networkSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 12/28/2004 - 19:02.
The Fund For Our Economic Future recently publicized insight from their first Minority Forum, which features a link to an interesting presentation from the keynote speaker, Dr. John Powell from Ohio State, on issues related to diversity and regionalization. Also included is a presentation from Ray Leach, CEO of NEO entrepreneurship supporters JumpStart, which expresses a commitment to be diverse and an interest to support minority entrepreneurs and help place minority business people in companies Jump Start supports. Page 3 of the presentation also says one thing that is "Different about Jump Start" is "We believe we can serve as a convener for all interested parties to build a social network". As this is a purpose of REALNEO, and this social network is committed to all parties in the region interested in entrepreneurship, it is clear we should all work together - we're all working with Case and dedicated to bettering this region. Time to start co-convening! Later in January, Jump Start is hosting an "Exchange", which should be a nice opportunity for local entrepreneurs to form physical connections... in the mean time, REALNEO will continue developing virtual connections and explore collaboration with Jump Start.
REALNEO TOPSOIL - Technology Optimization Platform for Social Organization, Innovation and LearningSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 12/28/2004 - 14:48.
This book organizes all REALNEO content related to the development of virtual communities, serving as the best practices and planning lab for REALNEO and other social organizations optimizing technology for innovation. ( categories: )
Medina Judge Puts Court Hearings and great services on the WWWSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 17:30.
This just came through the RSS feed from Channel 5 - and is covered more thoroughly on the Medina Gazette site - Medina Judge Kimbler is using the Internet in unique ways, in his courtroom - allowing attorneys and the public to sign up and "Join Judge Kimbler's Court and receive e-mail updates on jury trials, decisions,
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NEOSA NeTT Cast - “Your Personal Computer: Proactive Maintenance for the 21st Century�Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 16:08.
01/12/2005 - 10:00 NEOSA NeTT Cast - “Your Personal Computer: Proactive Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 11:00am to 11:45am Location
Webcast
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NEOSA Sales & Marketing SIG - “Creating A Compelling Value Proposition�Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 16:04.
01/20/2005 - 06:30 NEOSA Sales & Marketing SIG - “Creating A Compelling Thursday, January 20, 2005, 7:30am to 9:00am Location
Greater Cleveland Partnership - 50 Public Square, Suite 200
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NEOSA Monthly Meeting - “Blogs and RSS Boot Camp�Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/27/2004 - 15:43.
01/19/2005 - 06:30 NEOSA Monthly Meeting - “Blogs and RSS Boot Camp: Profiting Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 7:30am to 9:00am Location
Cleveland State University - 3100 Chester Avenue
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Information TechnologySubmitted by Ted Takacs on Sun, 12/26/2004 - 17:29.
Information Technology Virtual Communities and articles.
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On the digital divide - best practices in PA take turn for worst in OHSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 12/23/2004 - 04:06.
REI Director Ed Morrison sent me a link to an excellent This issue is about to become explosive in this state as, Creativity, the arts and the InternetSubmitted by Ed Morrison on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 21:18.
A recent report by the Pew The Pew Internet & American Life Project explores the attitude of artists to the Internet. The surprising finding: Artists and musicians are enthusiatic Internet users and they believe the Internet helps them make and sell their work.
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