Social Pinpoint

APRIL 23, 2017

As part of a major highway upgrade project in Queensland’s North Coast Region, the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) and GHD worked together to ensure local residents were informed about the project, their needs considered and their voices heard. Finalists in the 2016 Champions of Innovation Award in Community Engagement, GHD’s Stakeholder Engagement team.

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Data.gov

APRIL 4, 2017

For many Americans, maritime transportation plays a role in their daily commute to work. Understanding usage patterns and operational expenditures at different ferry operators can help transportation planners learn more about how ferries are used in different parts of the … Continued. The post Ferrying data to the public through the USDOT National Census of Ferry Operators appeared first on Data.gov.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 27, 2017

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes the importance of evidence, including defining four levels of evidence-based practices. The law, however, leaves it to states to decide how much they want to build an evidence base and how much to nudge districts toward choosing more effective strategies. So what should state education leaders do who want to leverage the new law and encourage districts to learn and do what works for students?

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

APRIL 28, 2017

Recent efforts by the new administration to change a wide variety of policies and programs has led me to look back at how our field has thought about the role of the public administrator. Much of the current thinking on this is still rooted in the work by political scientists from the 1940s and 1950s. This is not surprising given that in that time period we saw the emergence of the administrative state.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 19, 2017

“Many of the most important functions of state and local governments – from building and maintaining roads to housing the homeless – involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector,” notes the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab in their primer, Results-Driven Contracting: An Overview. “Unfortunately, governments often treat procurement as a back office administrative function, rather than as a core part of their strategy for del

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 7, 2017

How can Federal agencies successfully streamline their support services, such as HR and IT, to boost efficiency and improve results? We get insights from Jeffrey Neal ( @JeffNealHR ), a leading expert in human resources issues. He served for 33 years in the Federal government, including as the Chief Human Capital Officer for the 23,000-employee Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) from 2000 to 2009.

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