#naco — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

UK @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 22:23 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/uk/466863/ Entrepreneurs face nearly five-year wait for Canada’s Start-up Visa #AndCitizenshipCanada #Business #Canada #ClaudioRojas #cvca #Entrepreneurs #Entrepreneurship #FederalEntrepreneurshipProgram #GlobalTalentStream #GovernmentOfCanada #govt #H1BVisa #Immigration #incubator #KirkLubimov #MarinaSedai #MarkCarney #naco #ontario #ottawa #Refugees #StartUpVisa #SteinMonteiro #UK #UnitedKingdom #vc #YuriNavarro

#yurinavarro #vc #unitedkingdom #uk #steinmonteiro #startupvisa

United States News Beep @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 22:20 UTC

Entrepreneurs face nearly five-year wait for Canada’s Start-up Visa

Once a 12-…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #andcitizenshipcanada #Business #Canada #claudiorojas #cvca #Entrepreneurs #federalentrepreneurshipprogram #globaltalentstream #governmentofCanada #govt #H-1BVisa #Immigration #incubator #kirklubimov #marinasedai #MarkCarney #naco #ontario #Ottawa #Refugees #start-upvisa #steinmonteiro #VC #yurinavarro
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/195730/

#newsbeep #news #us #usa #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica

United States News Beep @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 22:20 UTC

Entrepreneurs face nearly five-year wait for Canada’s Start-up Visa

Once a 12-…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #andcitizenshipcanada #Business #Canada #claudiorojas #cvca #Entrepreneurs #federalentrepreneurshipprogram #globaltalentstream #governmentofCanada #govt #H-1BVisa #Immigration #incubator #kirklubimov #marinasedai #MarkCarney #naco #ontario #Ottawa #Refugees #start-upvisa #steinmonteiro #VC #yurinavarro
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/195730/

#yurinavarro #vc #steinmonteiro #start #refugees #ottawa

Australia News Beep @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 22:20 UTC

Entrepreneurs face nearly five-year wait for Canada’s Start-up Visa

Once a 12-month process, the SUV has ball…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #andcitizenshipcanada #AU #Australia #Business #Canada #claudiorojas #cvca #Entrepreneurs #federalentrepreneurshipprogram #globaltalentstream #governmentofcanada #govt #h-1bvisa #Immigration #incubator #kirklubimov #marinasedai #MarkCarney #naco #ontario #Ottawa #refugees #start-upvisa #steinmonteiro #vc #yurinavarro
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/183537/

#yurinavarro #vc #steinmonteiro #start #refugees #ottawa

Canada News Beep @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 22:20 UTC

Entrepreneurs face nearly five-year wait for Canada’s Start-up Visa

Once a 12-month process, the SUV has ballooned to 53…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #andcitizenshipcanada #Business #CA #Canada #claudiorojas #cvca #Entrepreneurs #federalentrepreneurshipprogram #globaltalentstream #GovernmentofCanada #govt #H-1Bvisa #Immigration #incubator #kirklubimov #marinasedai #MarkCarney #naco #ontario #Ottawa #Refugees #start-upvisa #steinmonteiro #vc #yurinavarro
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/183547/

#yurinavarro #vc #steinmonteiro #start #refugees #ottawa

UK @[email protected] · 2025-08-01 · 12:51 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/uk/309276/ Marc-Antoine Cantin to lead Anges Québec as CEO Stéphane Drouin steps down #AngesQuébec #AqcCapital #Business #Entrepreneurship #GenevièveWiedmannHarland #govt #InvestissementQuébec #MarcAntoineCantin #montreal #naco #PedroHerrera #quebec #StéphaneDrouin #UK #UnitedKingdom #vc

#vc #unitedkingdom #uk #stephanedrouin #quebec #pedroherrera

MCDOT @[email protected] · 2025-07-13 · 15:16 UTC

📌ICYMI📌
#MontgomeryCountyMD received 39 National Association of Counties Achievement Awards for 2025. Since 1970, the #NACo Achievement Awards have recognized exceptional county government programs and services.
🏆▶️ https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=47334

#naco #montgomerycountymd

MCDOT @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 11:53 UTC

🌟NEW🌟
MCDOT recognized with eight National Association of Counties Achievement Awards. #NACo Achievement Awards are an annual recognition program that honors outstanding county government programs and services.
Details ▶️ https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=47331&Dept=50 #maryland #montgomerycountymd #awards #maryland #localgovernment

#naco #maryland #montgomerycountymd #awards #localgovernment

MCDOT @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 11:53 UTC

🌟NEW🌟
MCDOT recognized with eight National Association of Counties Achievement Awards. #NACo Achievement Awards are an annual recognition program that honors outstanding county government programs and services.
Details ▶️ https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=47331&Dept=50 #maryland #montgomerycountymd #awards #maryland #localgovernment

#localgovernment #awards #montgomerycountymd #maryland #naco

LiefdeSaves™️ @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 21:21 UTC

Blue the #horse and a few #sheep are enjoying the beautiful weather on the #mexican border! #naco

#horse #sheep #mexican #naco

LiefdeSaves™️ @[email protected] · 2025-02-04 · 21:21 UTC

Blue the #horse and a few #sheep are enjoying the beautiful weather on the #mexican border! #naco

#naco #mexican #sheep #horse

Digital Polity @[email protected] · 2024-08-26 · 02:17 UTC

August 19 – 25

My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work.

[1] GX+ Season 4 complete

At the start of 2024, we created a new model for how work would be organized across the GX Foundry. We used a “seasons” conceptual model, where we take an 8-week period and break it up into 1 week of prep, 6 weeks of work, and 1 week of wrap-up, all in a TV show or streaming TV service metaphor. We used the metaphor in order to escape the dogmatic thinking that often pervades things like Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and other models. (A big inspiration was the Shape Up concept pioneered by the folks at Basecamp.) By creating something new, modeled on familiar things, we could make it our own and create our own rules and definitions. The TV stuff made it more fun, too.

Well, this week was the end of Season 4. At the end of each Season, we gather and share accomplishments from the past 8 weeks. It’s a mini-celebration, and a chance to tell our peers about the work we’ve been doing, because we’re all so heads-down focused on our stuff we don’t get much of a chance to see what everyone else is doing.

We’re working on a post for the GX Foundry website that should come out this week that will summarize everything and share versions of our slide decks. We’re still evolving this model and how we share the results, but one thing is clear — we want to hold ourselves publicly accountable and share our work with others in the #govtech space.

For fun, here are 3 individual slides from each of the decks created by the teams:

Our GX Concourse team (just 2 people so far, working on our new countywide digital service hub) shared their top-line accomplishments from the last 8 weeks. High design is Sarah Gray’s specialty, so it really stands out in our collection.This is the “overview” slide from the GX Development team, as assembled by Eric Nutt. Eric has become a nut (see what I did there?) for Charlie XCX, so he’s having a brat summer and decided to use the user-hostile design popularized by the artist. The whole deck is like this. So you either find it endearing or your find it annoying. No middle ground!Finally, just one slide from the GX Platforms team, assembled by Denise Roberts. This one had multiple animated GIFs and shared some of the challenges we’re having with getting Atlassian products into the hands of multiple agencies—all because the county’s lawyers don’t know how to balance business benefit with risk management in the procurement process. The lawyers are holding up digital transformations that would improve the work of hundreds (if not thousands) of county employees simply because they’re not sure if we can “trust” one of the biggest software corporations on Earth. Yeah, okay.

Stay tuned to our GX Foundry site for a GX+ Season 4 recap soon!

[2] Excited to work with USDR on matters of #govtech talent

Also had a brief meeting this week with Keith Wilson from the talent division at U.S. Digital Response (USDR) to prep for our engagement around talent development and structure within our GX Foundry digital services team. It also happened to be a big announcement week for USDR…

USDR announced the fully public launch of their Talent Toolkit
And you can access the Talent Toolkit right now on their Gitbook site — https://usdr.gitbook.io/talent-toolkit

We’ll be talking with USDR volunteers in the weeks and months ahead to review job descriptions and our team compositions and structures. We want to be growing in the right ways to handle current and future digital needs.

[3] Storytelling for fundraising

Much has already been said about this, but I didn’t want the week to pass by without calling attention to the sharpest example of storytelling I’ve ever seen when it comes to fundraising. Yes, this is the infamous “Doritos” email message from the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. A snippet is below:

This is just a remarkable use of storytelling to evoke feelings and images and human-scaled relatability for the reader. I’m sure this is at least a part of the reason they’ve raised $540M since Biden dropped out of the race. And this kind of message would work with either party — storytelling is a territory anyone can traverse.

[4] Miscellanea

I recently appeared in a NACo webinar and shared the info and links on the GX Foundry website — A bit about how we moved from projects to products in our digital work
Our friends at Code for America dropped all their 2024 Summit videos, and I shared the links and my favorites — Code for America Summit 2024 videos now available
HBR posted a great collection of ways to build team cohesion regardless of team location — 17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams
We have a brand new Project Manager starting this next week, and I’m excited to see how she will mesh with the changes we are bringing to our processes.
We also selected a new Business Analyst to hire next month. He joins us from the Help Desk and has a keen solution-focused and user-supportive mind to add to our abilities.
We finished the first pass of 2025 budgeting this past week. It was like pulling teeth this time. But we’ll vastly improve it for next year.
One key request in the 2025 budget is the purchase and deployment of a countywide Employee Experience platform. I’m assuming it will be shot down this year, then the outcry from users will become evident over time and we’ll have to do it in 2026. Of course, it’s possible county leaders will see the value and fund it right away. We’ll see!

[5] Watch This

As noted on the GX Foundry site, the Code for America Summit 2024 videos are out. There are several really good ones, but the one below is one of my favorites. It’s wonky stuff aimed at the #govtech and #civictech folks out there, but it’s a good discussion. I can’t thank the Beeck Center or USDR enough for their public service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LowFsFfExvY

[6] Internet Funnies

This next one is another masterpiece in social media promotional messaging. Whoever did this at the National Park Service needs a raise. (And yes, I have been to Mammoth Cave National Park — it’s a very, very big cave system, so… what were you expecting?)

https://digitalpolity.com/2024/08/25/2024-weeknote-34-gx-season-4-is-a-wrap/

#budget #CfASummit #civictech #CodeForAmerica #comics #funnies #Govtech #Gx #GXFoundry #GX_ #NACo #procurement #storytelling #talent #USDR #weeknote #Weeknotes

#budget #cfasummit #civictech #codeforamerica #comics #funnies

Digital Polity @[email protected] · 2024-08-04 · 22:24 UTC

July 29 – August 4

My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work.

I don’t have a ton this week. Just one bigger piece and then some small updates.

[1] Clippy 2.0: “It looks like you’re trying to degrade society and the environment. Can I help?”

I’ve made my stance on LLM generative AI pretty clear: it’s intellectually interesting, useful in a handful of tightly-focused use-cases, but in no way lives up to the astronomical hype we’ve been hearing over the past 2-3 years.

So I was delighted to run across this thread on Bluesky that, to me, absolutely nails what is happening with the “AI industry” as it stands today. I am re-sharing it here because it’s just soooooo good. (Boldface added by me.)

The current AI industry is the new oil: they demand the right to extract resources, to pollute both the social space and the physical environment, and they claim there will be massive dividends for society so they should not be required to make safe or to pay. [link]

Essentially they are too important for small considerations like fresh water, energy consumption or the creation of millions of tiny automated lie machines to stand between them and profit. [link]

There are places where this technology can do remarkable things, notably in bio research. But what’s happening now is not the rollout of knowledge engines for the betterment of the human condition. It is the fulfilment of the stupidest prophecy ever made. [link]

The Paperclip AI was always a ridiculous bogeyman when taken literally, and always an excellent metaphor for capitalism or the fossil fuel industry. Yet here it is, actually happening. Tech companies are putting Clippy 2.0 in everything, at our cost. This is about making life into money. [link]

It is the acceleration of the shift from money being a promise to do work – an IOU – to a unit of energy consumed. The billions which will be made here are trash money: the dollar as an accounting of entropy. [link]

Daaaaamn, son. Nailed it. No notes.

We have to dial back the rhetoric on LLM-based generative AI. It’s useful for generic text production and it can be tuned to handle specific use cases that are text-based. But it’s not worth nearly the hype it’s generated.

[2] Miscellanea

I’ll be joining Sarah Gray for a NACo webinar on Thursday, August 15 alongside Luke Norris from Granicus. You can sign up online here: Transforming County Services: From a Projects to Products Mindset – Insights from Franklin County, Ohio
Had a great conversation with Keith Wilson at USDR this week. We’ll be working on some team structure / job description modeling in the weeks ahead. USDR also has great resources on talent practices that everyone in government tech circles should check out.
Met with some Quickbase resources this week and brought in folks from one of our agencies that may get involved in the weeks and months ahead. It’s time we expanded beyond our own digital team to include “citizen developers” from other parts of the county to build solutions. We’re hoping to replicate—in a small way—what Washington, DC has done over the years.
Attended a nice happy hour event on Thursday, hosted by one of our teammates. Nice to get out and chat beyond the confines of meetings.
Also attended the Chief Digital Service Officers (CDSO) meeting this week, hosted by the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Network. Always great to catch up with that group.
We continued our internal conversations about the global “intake” process for projects. It’s coming into focus now, but we’re continuing talks in the weeks ahead.
Outside of work I also had an HOA board meeting this week. Yeah, I’m on an HOA board. But it’s not one of the bad ones that make headlines! 🤣

[3] Watch This

I am convinced the 1980s were the greatest single decade of pop music (and 1975-1999 is the greatest quarter-century), not just because of my age, but because musically the variety and quality of what was produced outstrips all pop periods that followed. Consider: Auto-tune was not created yet and synthesizers were simplistic devices back then, so the raw musical artistry and creativity required to make great pop music was just flat out higher.

So I’m delighted to have run across this recent cover of Toto’s “Rosanna” (1982) by some contemporary college-age kids. My hope is kids today (and going forward) will continue to discover and appreciate the pop and rock catalog from the late 20th century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh2yk_XElLM

[4] Internet Funnies

https://digitalpolity.com/2024/08/04/2024-weeknote-31-clippys-revenge/

#1980s #AI #BeeckCenter #CDSO #comics #DigitalServiceNetwork #DSN #funnies #music #NACo #Toto #USDR #webinar #weeknote #Weeknotes

#1980s #ai #beeckcenter #cdso #comics #digitalservicenetwork

MCDOT @[email protected] · 2024-07-15 · 11:28 UTC

📰ICYMI📰
The July 2024 edition of our 'GO Montgomery' newsletter was release last week. Catch up on all the #transportation news going on in #MontgomeryCountyMD.

📰🔗 https://gomontgomery.blogspot.com/
#transportation #maryland #transitTooter #rideonbus #newsletters #roads #NACo #awards #commuters #MDCommuters #localnews #newspaper #updates #visionzero

#visionzero #updates #newspaper #localnews #mdcommuters #commuters

MCDOT @[email protected] · 2024-06-28 · 13:30 UTC

#MCDOT recently received three achievement awards for 2024 from #NACo in the categories of #Transportation, Community & Economic Development, and #Personnel Management, #Employment & #Training

Details🔗 https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=45475&Dept=50
#transit #transitTooter #maryland #awards #montgomerycountymd