Archive for May, 2011
CitySourced Launches San Diego 311
May 31st
City Councilman Carl DeMaio sharing with the press about San Diego 311 powered by CitySourced is a one stop shop for city servcies.
Video of CitySourced Co-Founder Kurt Daradics on CBS News “What’s Trending”
May 25th
Good Magazine and What’s Trending bring you are “People Are Awesome” segment, which focuses on innovative ideas that will change your digital and real life (CBS/What’s Trending) – In this week’s What’s Trending and Good Magazine’s “People are Awesome” segment Kurt Daradics, co- founder of the CitySourced smart phone app, explains the app and all that it can do to raise civic awareness.
To read more…http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20065831-10391715.html
CitySourced Lights Up Entrepreneur Magazine 100 Most Brilliant Companies
May 25th
CitySourced gets nod in Entrepreneur Magazine
This civic mobile engagement app lets people report and share photos of community issues they want to see addressed (like graffiti or potholes).
To read more…http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219651
Why Governments Will Benefit From Embracing Technology
May 18th
Governments have been harnessing consumer-facing technology to reach out to their citizens in some very interesting ways.
In the spaces between location-aware technology, web services, mobile apps and social media tools, there is a ton of opportunity for governments — from small cities to entire nations — to do their jobs with more efficiency and transparency.
To read full story click http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/government-open-source-benefits/
CitySourced Partners Fehr & Peers Wins Internal Kudos
May 13th
2010 saw the birth of a new program within Fehr & Peers; conceived from one of our employee-attended leadership development forums, and in support of our core value of innovation. We are proud of our offices for representing the best of what this firm hopes of its employees, and each project had merit towards improving our professional services and/or operations. Three of these projects have been awarded:
- Most Innovative – Reno Office. Most anecdotal evidence points to the impressive smartphone app created to enable and illustrate citizen engagement in the Reno Sparks Bike & Ped Plan project with CitySourced.
To read more… http://www.fehrandpeers.com/our-employee-driven-fp-labs-innovations/
CitySourced + Esri Community Analyst Video
May 11th
CitySourced + Esri Community Analyst Video from CitySourced on Vimeo.
This short video by Brenda Wolfe from Esri’s Community Analyst team gives a glimpse of what the future of data driven policy might look like.
Connection in the digital age
May 9th
Social media generally, and Twitter in particular, has come a long way in the past four years.
Why, only two years ago a resident quietly walked through the council corridors and into my office. As he closed the blinds he said, “Roxanne you need to be on Twitter.” I replied that I was not convinced that Twitter would be of value to me in improving quality of life for my residents. As he installed Twitter and Tweet Deck onto my BlackBerry and computer, I continued to ask: Is this “just” a social networking fad? How can this help me to connect in a meaningful way to my residents? How does this help improve my community in getting things done better and faster?
To read more Connection in the digital age
CitySourced Founders Meet GIS Pioneer Roger Tomlinson
May 6th
Meeting Geography Pioneer Roger Tomlinson at Esri HQ was a memory. We had some fun telling jokes, talking about koala bears, and hearing the story about how Roger and Jack Dangermond met in Santa Barbara in the late 60′s.
Now I just need to pick up a copy of Thinking About GIS