Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at the inaugural DC-region Digital Analytics Association Symposium.  It was a great event with a lot of incredibly impressive folks doing interesting things, both inside the Federal Government, as well as leaders from NPR, PBS, NatGeo among others.…

June 1 was the National Day of Civic Hacking.  Over 11,000 civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs in 83 cities developed software to help others in their own neighborhoods and across the country.  The White House hosted more than 30 developers and designers to work with the…

The Office of Digital & Design Innovation (ODDI) was created with a simple proposition:  We work with technology to improve US international media news and information. We look for the best solutions to the biggest problems in creating, distributing and improving news and information.…

Occasionally in our office, we have small, one-off projects that don’t need to fit into our existing content management system. This gives us more flexibility in design and structure, but we need to get them done quickly and without a lot of resources. When we built the redesigned and resp…

Andy Grove, Intel's co-founder, offered a succinct description of the time in which an organization has to evolve to continue to survive, let alone thrive. He called these moments strategic inflection points, "an event that changes the way we think and act." He went on to say these moments…