NSFG - Not Safe for Government

The rise of Ridealong and becoming your own Mark Cuban.  Mayors, with a little help from AOL co-founder Steve Case, played Shark to a group of GovTech Startups during their final official day at SXSW - but remained in the long shadow of Mark Cuban.

Our coverage of the Civic I/O Mayors Summit at SXSW continues with a hard day's conversations about how cities are coming terms with race and immigration.  Plus the Governing crew have a few thoughts about all that took place around the policy discussion.

In this second NSFG Extra from the Civic I/O mayors summit at SXSW, J.B. Wogan speaks with long serving US Conference of Mayors Executive Director Tom Cochran, who sketches out a through line from civic innovation to civil rights and back.  The governing crew - J.B., David Kidd, and Dustin Haisler - also take to the patio to compare notes on what we learned during day one of the mayor's summit.

Two early arriving mayors, Louisville's Greg Fischer and Christopher Cabaldon of West Sacramento talk about their expectations of the annual technology, music and policy festival in Austin.  Fischer wants to talk with the 23 mayors gathered for the Civic I/O Summit at SXSW about the challenges faced by blue cities in red starts during the Trump era.  For his part, Cabaldon thinks that public engagement as currently practiced by cities is doing more harm than good.

Recorded before a live audience at Laserfiche's Empower 2017 in Long Beach, CA, NSFG cohost Dustin Haisler talks with leading innovators from state and local government on how process improvements are leading to new ways to deliver service and help the community. Major themes from this episode: 

• How to undertake civic innovation with limited resources  • What is on the horizon for new government service models  • Success stories and lessons learned in innovating citizen-centric processes

Guests:

Bryan Sastokas – CIO and Head of Innovation, Long Beach, California

Tim Nolan, Senior Applications Manager, Collin County, Texas

Ed Yonker, Application Software Manager, County of Franklin, Pennsylvania

The never before posted piloted episode featuring Opportunity Space, a GovTech startup that sought to become the Zillow of government-owned property. Originally produced in August 2015.

The GovTech Social podcast is becoming NSFG - a podcast about applied innovation in state and local government. The name is a play on the warnings you see about content on the Internet being not safe for work - or NSFW. To be clear, NSFG is cubicle-friendly and job critical - there is no sonic nudity to worry about.

But the name was deliberate on our part because we want to have a conversation about where government is going and how it is going to get there. We have been thinking and talking to really smart people about exponential technologies, government's relationship to data (both open and big) and the citizens' experience with government. More to the point, the citizens' experience with you.

Social media is certainly part of the mix. You and this community of govies are, after all, who brought us to the dance. We are in your debt - and look forward to having you with us on this ride into government's future.

On this episode, completing a swapcast with ELGL founders Kirsten and Kent Wyatt, a check-in with Kristy Dalton on #GSMCON2017 and details on the Atlanta GovTech Social Unconference.

Kansas City Communications Manager Chris Hernandez guests, and a discussion of government social media in the age of alternative facts.

Making news by making history - and preserving a slice of a presidential Legacy.

The Twitter handle @POTUS is getting freed up for the next White House accupant and the incumbent becomes @POTUS44 on Twitter. On January 5, the White House stood up a digital archive containing a quarter million digital records from the Obama years. That's a historic first.

As a companion to Eyragon Eidam's story, New Archive Offers 'Unprecedented Access' to Obama's Social Media Presence, he talks with Anil Chawla about the how it all came together.