Name
Tricia White
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Contact Info
twhite@msbdc.umass.edu
@twhitecreations
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Description
Senior Business Advisor at MA Small Business Development Center Network
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What you hope to learn at Gov 2.0 Camp New England
Strategies, rules and regulations for social media in government
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James Turner |
turner@oreilly.com
Twitter: blackbearnh
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Contributing Editor, O'Reilly Media
NH Volunteer, 50 State Project
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What interesting things are happening in NE Open Government |
Jeff Blasius |
jeff@seeclickfix.com |
CTO SeeClickFix.com |
What's new with the open data movement? |
Andrea Mercado |
Twitter: andreamercado |
Techie Citizen |
Trends in open government, how govts tailor tech to different constituency groups
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Peter Corbett |
peter at istrategylabs doc com, corbett3000 |
CEO, iStrategyLabs | co-creatator, Apps for Democracy | co-organizer Government 2.0 Camp |
I'm interested to see what NE's gonna do to catch up with DC, NYC and SF! |
Sarah Bourne |
Twitter: sarahebourne |
Mss.Gov technology strategist; assistive technology lab manager. |
Strategies and approaches yielding measurable results in state and local government through the use of social media, open data, and other transparency initiatives. |
Deborah Elizabeth Finn |
Twitter: Deborah909 |
Strategist and consultant to nonprofits and philanthropies, specializing in technology strategies that support their missions. |
How to bring it all together for better government and a better community. How to help nonprofit advocacy groups work more effectively. |
Shava Nerad |
shava-at-oddfellowstudios-dot-com
Twitter: shava23
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Working on leadership development curricula, online/off, for about 15 years, professional/volunteer. Nonprofit consultant/execdir, with lots of academic/business experience too. Currently CEO of a semi-serious game industry startup. Authoring educational software since 1982, same year I got on the Internet. |
Who can pick up my curriculum, as startup-mode isn't giving me much time to teach. Ideas about translating the curriculum to online. How I can help with my now limited hours. What cool things are out there? |
Georgy Cohen |
@radiofreegeorgy on Twitter |
Managing Editor, Web Communications at Tufts University. Freelance writer and web communications professional. Public transit evangelist. |
Curious about how social web communications strategies play out in government, specifically with regard to public transit. Also morbidly curious about potential applications of digital storytelling for government. |
Justin Mosebach |
Email
Twitter: @VideoMinutes
Link for where webcast is to be archived: http://bit.ly/gov20ne
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Helping to bring local government public meetings online w/ video. We did the webcast version of #gov20ne
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How much local governments are implementing technology for open government and what caused them to actually do so. |
Ari Herzog |
ariherzog@gmail.com
http://ariherzog.com
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Intersecting the internet and public policy as an online media strategist and Newburyport city councilor. |
Too many people and agencies worry about the what. I'm curious who is asking questions about the why and the how... and if so, what. |
Laurel Ruma |
@laurelatoreilly |
Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media; MBTA Green Line Extension to Medford/Rt 16 abutter/advocate; Boston Girl Geek Dinner founding member |
Interested to hear about how cities and towns are thinking differently with the present budget crisis. |
Rob Goodspeed |
rob.goodspeed at gmail.com, goodspeedupdate.com |
Urban planning PhD student at MIT |
Hearing about innovative projects related to urban planning & policy |
Colin Rhinesmith |
CCTV:
colin(at)cctvcambridge(dot)org @cctvcambridge http://cctvcambridge.org
Personal:
colin(at)cmediachange(dot)net @colinrhinesmith http://colinrhinesmith.com
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Community Media & Technology Manager for Cambridge Community Television and Adjunct Lecturer at Bentley University |
Interested to learn how local communities use online networks to foster civic engagement and digital literacy. |
Brad Blake |
Work: Brad.Blake@state.ma.us
Personal: @bradmblake
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Director of New Media & Online Strategy
Massachusetts Office of the Governor
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Working with others on using web2.0/social media in government to drive more clear results (cost savings, educated feedback into public policy, more efficient government, etc.). |
Mike Slagh |
SecureNation.org
@mslagh
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Kennedy School MPP student, blog founder, naval officer |
Learn about projects relating to national security and the military; meet some cool people
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Katy Peters |
kathryn_peters at hks11.harvard.edu
@fleurdelivre
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HKS Masters in Public Policy candidate
Information Architect, TurboVote project
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Applying tech tools to governance issues; ICT for development; also loves Crema cafe! |
Mark Drapeau |
drapeaum at live.com
@microsoft_mark
@cheeky_geeky
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Director of Innovative Social Engagement, Microsoft U.S. Public Sector; Gov 2.0 Expo co-chair |
Innovation at scale; Unique approaches; Who else loves Crema Cafe |
Kate Norton |
kathryn.norton@gmail.com
Twitter: @norton_kate
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New Media Director, Martha Coakley for Attorney General, and former Manager of Web & Publications, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
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Take a guess...
Quantifying social media influence; streamlining web2.0; effective messaging (best impact).
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Eric Gordon |
eric_gordon@emerson.edu
Twitter: @ericbot
http://hub2.org
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Assistant Professor of New Media at Emerson College |
Interested in finding ways to balance the desire for data expediency with the need for human contact and social interaction. |
alex patriquin |
alex at wattzy dot com
@alexpatriquin
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founder & ceo of wattzy.com,
a social network for energy efficiency
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new possibilities for energy, social media and open data |
Teresa Martin |
teresa@capeeyes.com |
elected official, barnstable county; writer at www.capeeyes.com; consultant on doing business in the digital age |
ideas and energy to incorporate into my community role, as well as my professional role; esp interested in the role of government itself in the 2.0 world - do we need it? |
Ian
Campbell
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ian.graham.campbell at gmail.com
twitter: atavistian
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Writer/blogger, futures thinker, techno-tracker, also an emergency services dispatcher. |
How Gov 2.0 may affect our experiences and interactions in the coming years. |
Alison Harris |
aliharris@comcast.net or
alison.harris@state.ma.us
Mobile: 781-424-3293
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Director of Communications for the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Labor & Workforce Development |
Ways to improve integration of social media into the traditional media mix while being mindful of the needs of diverse audiences. |
Bill Proia |
billproia@tulanealumni.net
wproia@riemerlaw.com
mobile: 508 414 0313
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Attorney practicing extensively in public law representing both government and private sector clients mainly in regulatory environment highly dependent upon public administrative efficiencies |
Methods for improving e-filing of regulatory applications and related administrative records and providing that material in e-form to interested parties, creating e-fora for hearings related to those matters for integrating interested parties |
Ruth Urell |
urell@noblenet.org
ruthurell@gmail.com
Twitter: ruthurell
www.readingpl.org
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Director, Reading Public Library |
I'm interested in learning how to enhance people's access to local government and improve communications. |
Chris Horne |
christopherjhorne@gmail.com
267-539-8955
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MIT 2010 Master of City Planning |
Meeting other like minded people and seeing how government can become more responsive and engaging.
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Aldon Hynes |
aldon.hynes@orient-lodge.com
860-704-9637
Twitter: ahynes1
Blog: www.orient-lodge.com
Other links on DandyID
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Old guard geek, blogger, social networker, political activist, citizen journalist, etc. |
Building bridges between different people and groups interested in Open Government.
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Jeff Sonstein |
email: jxsast at rit dot edu
Twitter: @jeffsonstein
Blog: http://chw.rit.edu/blog/
Other links: my RIT site
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IT prof fascinated with potentials for mobile connectivity to transform societies, W3C participant, old hacker. |
Finding others interested in building tools for citizens to use.
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Graham Webster |
email: g9 at gwbstr dotcom
Twitter: @gwbstr
Website: gwbstr.com
Other links: infopolitics.net, a new blog on information and political change
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East Asian studies graduate student at Harvard, political scientist, student of e-government in China, authoritarian countries, and the United States. |
Exchanging perspectives with gov2.0 professionals and scholars in the U.S., and pinning down some of the similarities and differences between authoritarian and democratic government informatization
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Christian Spanring |
Twitter: @spanaut
Website: spanring.eu
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Working with GIS and building web apps in an urban planning and regional data environment. |
Expectations from open data initiatives. Hearing more about open gov and participation projects addressing the town-hall-meeting divide.
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Guido Stein |
http://www.guidostein.com
@guidos
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GIS Analyst and Social Media Guy who enjoys working with community to enable people to make change |
I hope to learn about what projects people are working on and see if I can help with my skill set to move projects forward |
Susan Kaplan |
Twitter: @EnergyEffAction
Website: www.mass.gov/doer
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Marketing & Outreach Coordinator at Mass. DOER, currently championing strategies to galvanize homeowners, renters, and businesses to reduce their energy consumption
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Continuing my education: merging social media with traditional media to learn from and communicate with various constitutencies related to energy |
Julie
Farrell
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jfarrell59@gmail.com |
Selectman, Town of Templeton
Light and Water commissioner, TMLWP
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Balancing gov 2.0 with Open Meeting Law requirements and effect on public records...storage retention, formats.. |
F. Mark Modzelewski |
fmmodzelewski@gmail.com
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Exec. Dir. of Non Profit Assc.; Advisor to PCAST; Former VC, Start-up CEO, Clinton Admin. Appointee; Campaign Consultant. |
Interested in tools/strategies that make government more efficient and responsive to citizens |
Irene Ros |
iros@us.ibm.com
Twitter: @ireneros
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Visualization Research Developer, Center for Social Software, IBM Research. |
Interested in learning about challenges in communicating government data that can benefit from data visualization. |
John McCrory |
Write: correspondence@johnmccrory.com
Follow: @johnmccrory on Twitter
Read: johnmccrory.com
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My current work involves building a nationwide learning community for government, nonprofit, and academic officials interested in applying cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice (More info on this project...)I am an independent consultant on marketing and communications strategy and social media. |
Seeing a broad variety of applications of social media in government settings, especially including those which are not directly citizen-facing. Seeing how record retention reqs are being met. |
Danielle Martin |
d_martin@mit.edu
http://verdesmoke.com
@mizzdmartin on Twitter
http://departmentofplay.wikispaces.com/
http://colabradio.mit.edu/
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Master in City Planning, DUSP MIT, Broadband stimulus adoption research, youth media & organizing, community media, |
How young and media centered activists can be engaged by Gov 2.0 and other social media tools and also become leaders in their local communities by creating their own new tools |
Charles Lenchner |
clenchner@organizing20.org.
http://organizing20.org
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Consultant on online organizing. Special interest in local political races, labor movement and community organizing integration. |
Looking for great examples of gov apps that candidates can copy as part of an election campaign. |
Steve Sherlock |
shersteve@gmail.com
@shersteve on Twitter
@FranklinMAtters on Twitter
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volunteer Community Information Director for the placeblog covering Franklin, MA - FranklinMAtters |
I am looking to share what I have learned about reporting live on town business and to learn from others who are also looking to build a respectful, online community in an environment where most are still not online. |
Nick Grossman |
nickyg at openplans dot org @nickgrossman on twitter
blog @ http://wrkng.net
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Director of Civic Works at the Open Planning Project -- http://openplans.org |
Trying to envision the ideal tool for participatory city planning and public space management. |
Lydia Gilbert |
lydia.gilbert@clintonglobalinitiative.org
@lydlag on Twitter
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Technology commitments lead, and economic empowerment manager at Clinton Global Initiative |
Learning about trends and opportunities for action |
Glenn Tremblay |
glenn.tremblay@state.ma.us
@gtremblay on Twitter
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Working in the Commonwealth CTO's office on the open data initiative, ITconsolidation , and facilitating enterprise collaboration through cross-agency tools (Mass.Gov/wiki) |
Learning how we can make the most of open data efforts for the greater good of the community as well as how others are building communities for collaboration online. |
John Moore |
john.5555.moore@gmail.com
@JohnFMoore on Twitter
Blog: http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com
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CTO and SVP of Engineering at Swimfish (Danvers, MA). Blogger about common sense business and government. |
Interested in discovering the meaning of life. Any ideas welcome. |
Scott Macmillan |
scott@macguffingames.com
@MrMacguffin on Twitter
www.macguffingames.com
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Founder of indie studio Macguffin Games. |
Learning more about Gov2.0 in general, and possible intersections with game design and development. |
Thom Goodsell |
thom.goodsell{AT}me.com |
Software Engineer at Humedica, Inc., Organizer at CrisisCamp Boston, Founder of as-yet unnamed non-profit. |
See how I can help make government more open and responsive to its citizens, and meet new and interesting people. |
Liz Sachs |
liz.gifford{AT}gmail.com
@blacktabi on Twitter
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Software Engineer at Humedica, Inc., Organizer at CrisisCamp Boston
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Learn about opportunities for citizen involvement, what I can do to further them, and how we might link CrisisCamp into the Gov2.0 network to leverage both groups |
Matthew Sachs |
matthewg@zevils.com
@mattsachs
http://zevils.com/
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Software Engineer at ITA Software |
Learn about how governments and citizens are reaching out to each other. |
Philipp Schroegel |
p.schroegel (attt) googlemail (dottt) com
@schroep
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MPP student at the Kennedy School of Government, Phycisist |
Get in touch with experts and practitioners. |
Jess Weiss |
Twitter: @jessweiss
jessica.weiss AT state.ma.us
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Project & Social Media Coordinator, Mass.gov |
Learning more about using web 2.0 and social media to make government more effective and response. Unconventional uses of new technology. Meeting others with an interest in same. |
Nathan Spencer |
Twitter: @NathanSpencer
nathanjspencer@gmail.com
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Director of Community Relations for the PSF Community Center; Public Member of the MBTA Rider Oversight Committee |
Learn more about how government is using technology and more about how we can better services and effectiveness of them through technology. |
Julie Steele |
jsteeleeditor (Twitter/AIM/Skype)
jsteele@oreilly.com
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Acquisitions Editor at O'Reilly Media |
Learn what ideas and tools (especially open source) people inside and outside of gov need to be effective. Also, how best to connect people with those ideas and tools (i.e., what content delivery formats are most useful and appealing?).
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Stephen Buckley |
sbuckley (attt) UStransparency.com
@transpartisan, @opengovradio
skype: opengov
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pioneer: OpenGov1.0 (the 1990s version)
moderator: OpenGovDirective email-list
radio: OpenGovRadio.com
organizer: OpenGov WorkshopSeries
blog: U.S.Transparency
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I want to learn how to improve the discussion about Gov2.0's role in the overall Open Government effort. -- AND, I want inform younger-crowd about the 1990s' attempt at "OpenGov" culture-change, so they can learn NOT to make the same mistakes.
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Jon Pierce |
http://jonpierce.com, @jonpierce |
Developer; Founder of the coworking space Betahouse; Founding Trustee of The Awesome Foundation; organizer of events like BarCamp Boston, Open Government Hack Day, and Music Hack Day Boston |
I'd love to hear updates on many of the Gov 2.0 initiatives that have emerged over the past year. What has worked, what hasn't, what are the big problems that need to be addressed for real, lasting change, how can governments and technologists better work together. |
James Hamski
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james.hamski@gmail.com
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environmental scientist; interests in regional development, energy, water resources
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I'm interested in how information access can improve the function of government institutions and further their effectiveness and trustworthiness with the public.
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Wayne Cronin
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mail.wcronin@gmail.com
wcronin@wellstown.org
@wcronin
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Detective Sergeant, policy researcher, MuniGov20 member, twitter addict
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The dynamics of organizational culture and social media adoption/use, what new SM tools are out there that could enhance effectiveness of public safety
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Kate Geyer
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Twitter: @parsnipsoup
emails:kate@qakq.com, kate.geyer@state.ma.us
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I work in the Commonwealth's Technology Office on the Open Data Initiative & the Shared Application Infrastructure project.
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I'm interested in building state and local open data communities & Free software tools so we all can use the data.
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Monika Adamczyk
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Twitter: @macotech
emails: monika@maco-tech.com, monika.m.adamczyk@ugov.gov
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Independent IT Consultant (MACO TECH INC), Government Contractor, Organizer at Boston CrisisCamp, Mass GTUG Manager
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I am interested in learning about Gov 2.0 initiatives at all levels of the government (from local to federal)
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Patty Caya
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www.pattycaya.com
Twitter: @trixielatour
e-mail: pcaya@yahoo.com
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Interactive producer and content strategist
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I am interested in Gov 2. the state of the state: what initiatives are actually in place, what are the priorities and what are the major wish list items at various levels of government.
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Jessica Heinzelman
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jessica.heinzelman@tufts.edu
twitter @jaheinzelman
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Political strategy consultant turned Fletcher School grad student studying conflict resolution with interest in tech and corruption.
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I hope to share interesting ideas, learn from others and think about how things might be applied in the developing world.
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Jenn Chin
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jchin@mapc.org
Twitter: jennchin
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Communications Coordinator at Metropolitan Area Planning Council
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Learning about effective social web communications strategies in government
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Karen Liot Hill
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karenliothill@gmail.com
@NHkaren
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City Councilor, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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how government can be more responsive and accessible to the community it serves; how technology can help foster civic engagement
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Steve Backman |
sbackman@dbdes.com
@stevebackman
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Principal, Database Designs Associates, Boston, MA |
learning and sharing about the intersection of nonprofit and government use of technology to improve services and advance advocacy. |
Ryan Androsoff
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ryan@ryanandrosoff.ca
twitter: @saskprairiefire
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Master in Public Policy Candidate @ Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professional career highlights include: working in Canadian politics, Ministerial Policy Advisor in the Government of Canada, and Results-Based Management policy work at the World Bank in D.C.
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1) Networking with other Gov 2.0 professionals and enthusiasts
2) Feedback on current thesis research regarding the City of Somerville's "ResiStat" program
3) Learning about practical "on-the-ground" success stories and failures in trying to move towards a Gov 2.0 model
4) Brilliant new ideas (potentially out of left, or even right, field) that will give me food for thought!
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Rony Camille |
rcamille@tyngsboroughma.gov camille.rony@gmail.com
Twitter: @tyngsboroughma.gov @ronycamille
http://www.tyngsboroughma.gov
http://rcamillesink.com
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Media Program Director/Webmaster Town of Tyngsborough, MA & Freelance Media Producer |
Learn and share ideas w/others regarding Social Media and Open Local Government Online
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David Zwarg |
dzwarg@azavea.com |
Software Developer at Azavea, Cambridge, MA |
What do governments and citizens have/need/want re: geospatial information, and what kinds of tool would best fit that need?
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Margaret Demille |
margaret.demille [at ] gmail [ dot ] com
@blackscreenvfx
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Technical Editor w/ environmental engineering firm; Affiliate Project Manager/Social Media for Black Screen Studios |
There are so many conversations to be had; we want to participate in the process. |
Brigitte Casemyr |
brigitte@turfbuildermarketing.com
@brigittecasemyr
www.turfbuildermarketing.com
www.town.westborough.ma.us
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Westborough Advisory Finance Committee member; 15+ town volunteer in diverse roles |
Intend to brief our Town Manager with concrete suggestions on how to get started on a small scale. Very interested to learn about the policies that have already been put in place by mass.gov, hoping that they will help us a long way to change the way we conduct town business. |
Comments (1)
RobG said
at 5:12 pm on Feb 23, 2010
I've removed the "Boston Events" entry since this is a listing of attendees. If someone from that website is coming, please list yourself and the URL as a website about you. Thanks.
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