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The Challenge of Performance Management in Community Development

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In a forthcoming book, I define performance management as a continuous and cyclical process of making data-informed decisions to improve organizational outcomes. Over the last few decades, these systems have become ubiquitous in almost every aspect of local government management.

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Community trust is a firefighter’s greatest asset

American City & Country

Let’s explore how firefighters can use risk management strategies to stay prepared and build trust with the folks they’re responsible for protecting. While firefighters are the ones doing the grunt work during natural disasters, the community at large has an important role to play, too. Why does trust matter?

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GOVERNMENT IS MORE THAN RED VS BLUE

Barrett & Greene

No surprise that an article jumped out at us from The New York Times that said early on: Voters across the political spectrum are disillusioned with a government that has become synonymous with Groundhog Day-esque spending battles, slow public works projects and political gridlock.

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AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

How AWS and AWS Partners can help unlock more value from your data AWS provides a comprehensive set of data capabilities designed to help government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations analyze and interpret data, optimize data strategy, and break down silos. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners can help fill that gap.

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Make Your Records a Productivity Asset

GovLoop

“Records and information, whether they’re paper or digital, are the lifeblood of government,” said Mary Ellen Buzzelli, Director of State, Local and Education Strategy at Iron Mountain Government Solutions. Address Present Needs in Real Time Records management isn’t just for archives, though.

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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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CFP: ACRL Publication - Working title: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

A Library Writer's Blog

Examples include: How to engage in a TDM “reference interview” Data ethics in text data mining research contexts Embedding critical theory into text data education The role of library administration and management in supporting TDM Education, Training, and Logistics.