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Nextdoor now lets neighbors poll one another, better quantify results
The fast-growing, neighborhood-based community platform Nextdoor has launched a new feature, Nextdoor Polls, that now allows neighbors to easily ask one another questions and quantify the results.
5 ways CIOs and IT vendors can work better together
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers has released a great brief on how CIOs can work better together.
Getting started with Agile government
It was an excellent discussion that went a little beyond the basics, and there were a number of questions we didn’t get to, but overall it’s a helpful introduction that includes some great panelist anecdotes.
Feds finally get some Slack
The U.S. General Services Administration announced approved terms of service agreements for the collaboration service Slack.
U.S. Department of Energy has a new chief data officer
According to a U.S. Project Open Data GitHub pull request, it appears the U.S. Department of Energy has named Dave Dutton as its chief data officer.