NY Senate's Office of the CIO: Archive

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OpenLeg now supports RSS, Email Alerts and...

You might have noticed that the NY Senate OpenLeg system has a new view for browsing recent activity in the Senate and Assembly. Of course we are all very busy people and probably don’t have the time every day to go check the site over and over again. What if instead you want these updates pushed out to you? Well, that’s what Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is for! You can directly...

Aug 18th

Aug 14th

Aug 13th

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“Not only does BART provide the data readily to the public, it encourages...”

– Streetsblog San Francisco » BART a National Leader in Real-Time Data Transparency and Development

Jul 14th

“This was a landmark coming together of those too long shut out of the political...”

– Beka Economopoulos, Vice President of Fission Strategy from Connecting, Creating, and Collaborating at Capitol Camp (OFT)

Jul 7th

Jun 26th

Agile development, our SCRUM worksheet

for the past six months, we’ve been cranking out projects and suddenly realized that we needed to adopt a development mythology. since we had already adopted a SCRUMish format for our thrice weekly calls, we decided to delve deeper. this past Tuesday, the team traveled up to Albany for #CIOCamp where we SCRUM’d all of our projects. since we are SCRUM nubes and we are adopting this...

Jun 26th

live on the intranet, the New NYSenate newsclips...

While not publicly accessable, this is a brief summary of an awesome new intranet project we launched for all NY Senate Staffers. Senate Newsclips service has been developed to replace a thirty year old offline newspaper clipping operation that was manually performed by senate staffers with scissors, glue and photocopiers. As dated as the old process seemed, within it had evolved a very advanced...

Jun 25th

Tim Berners-Lee on "Putting Gov't Data online"

Footnote: Do’s and Don’ts Do pick URIs which are likely to be persistent Do put RDF metadata giving the license. Do use the RDF and SPARQL standards Make sure your human readable pages are accessible. Do NOT hide data files inside zip files unless they are also available directly. Do NOT put data up in proprietary formats. Do NOT wait until you have a complete schema or ontology...

Jun 25th

what's running your inbox?

The NY Senate Office of the CIO is investigating options for enterprise e-mail, calendaring, and collaboration, and we are looking for your input. Currently, the NY Senate utilizes the IBM Lotus product line for its enterprise groupware suite, which has served its purpose well. As part of a review of all major Senate software investments, and in recognition of the need to introduce new...

Jun 24th

Github + NYSenate = FLOSSy goodness

Our recent efforts to open up the Senate’s legislative data and online services have gotten positive recognition from Github.com, a leader in providing social coding services and the site we happen to host our open-source projects on. Here’s an excerpt from their blog: “The cool thing for us is that they’ve put all their open source projects up on GitHub at...

Jun 22nd

Jun 18th

Jun 9th

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Watch

watch CapitolCamp’s opening remarks or check out the uncut sessions.

Jun 9th

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Jun 9th

New York State OFT goes strategic with Facebook... →

From our colleagues in the NYS Office for Technology: On June 5, the office announced Empire 2.0, a strategy to encourage state agencies to use “Web 2.0, new media, and social collaborative tools and technologies” to improve communication and services, and facilitate transparency and openness in government.

Jun 8th

“Recently the GSA has been negotiating on behalf of federal agencies special...”

– Joshua Tauberer’s Blog » Blog Archive » GSA social media TOS review

May 29th

CapitolCamp NY - June 5th, Albany, NY

Next Friday is CapitolCamp NY (June 5th 2009) at the New York State Capitol. The New York State Senate, NY State CIO’s Office and concerned citizens are hosting a Barcamp to share ideas about how technology can make government work better for all the residents of the Empire State. For one day, we will focus on the particular theme of using technology to increase transparency and...

May 27th

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“There were many challenges to be overcome, and their requirements pushed the...”

– Aaron Winborn of Advomatic in regards to the new NY Senate website. Read on here: http://drupal.org/node/456972

May 13th

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CIO Office Feature/Bug/Issue Tracking

We’re in the midst of a bake-off between http://lighthouseapp.com (cloud) and http://redmine.org (rails) - any thoughts, feedback, WIN/FAILs you’d like to share?

May 13th

Watch

http://citability.org a cool iniative to bring perma-links to documents.

May 8th

May 6th

Apr 20th

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SunlightNY.com :: Office of the Attorney General →

Kudos to our state colleagues at the OAG for the update to their SunlightNY.com online initiative

Apr 9th

Data as Seductive Material, Spring Summit, Umeå... →

From the creator of Dopplr… some good thoughts on visualizing the feed of our daily lives, and lots of pretty pictures in the presentation, too!

Apr 8th

Daylife Developer API →

You might have heard we are automating our news clipping service… well, Daylife is one of the tools we are using to do this. They’ve got a great API and a smart, semantic approach to munging data.

Apr 4th

How often should we tumble and tweet?

Just big news and releases, or do you want to know about the minutiae? We’d love to hear your thoughts…

Apr 3rd

Apr 2nd

NYStimulus.org

We’re working on making and ever better NYStimulus.org replete with videos, live streaming, the whole shebang-a-bang. Until then, you can still ask questions and find your local Town Hall at http://nystimulus.org.

Apr 2nd

Of course, I'll also try this

Wow, the internet is fun.

Apr 1st

Ok, trying that again

Don’t you just hate it when you click the button that says “post to Twitter” and nothing happens? Well, now we’re going with TwitterFeed which will post our Tumblr RSS feed to our Twitter account every 30 minutes. Try it yourself - http://twitterfeed.com/. You’ll need an openID, though (if you choose myvoop you get to use the awesome imageshield). Anyway, in half an...

Apr 1st

Working on the Blog

So we’re trying to figure out how to get everyone who posts to our Tumblr account to simultaneously post to the @NYSenateCIO Twitter account? Why, because then it’s easier for everyone to follow us ALL the time. So, we’re sorry if we’re posting a bunch of crazy stuff as we make sure this all works out. Thank you our beloved followers!

Apr 1st

My Bio

I am Craig Leinoff and I am semi-new to the team. And I am working on Drupal development. A long time ago, when I was a kid, I thought I’d someday grow up to be a Drupal developer. “What’s Drupal?” everyone asked. “I don’t know,” I said. “I just don’t know.” Those dreams came and went, as they did with most little boys. I went through the usual gamut of future career choices: fireman, policeman,...

Apr 1st

Politics, times catch Senate news clippers →

While we are sad to see people lose jobs, saving $1M+ per year by providing automatic news clippings through semantic news services and APIs is definitely something the NY Senate CIO team is focusing on

Apr 1st

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@ahoppin & @noneck are at gov2.0camp

for the next two days, Andrew and Noel are in DC for Gov 2.0 Camp, an unconference on technology. follow the twitter hashtag #Gov20Camp for some amazing updates.

Mar 27th

GSA Agreement w/ Social Networking Platforms Sets...

We’re looking forward to setting new precedents for appropriate and effective use of technology and social media at the State level over the coming year… but it’s even better (= less work) when we don’t have to. Now, for a range of social networking platforms we’re already starting to us, we don’t have to, thanks to the Federal GSA. They have negotiated Terms of...

Mar 26th

“ON A RECENT bright March morning, Mr. Hoppin was on the 19th floor of 250...”

– Albany’s King Geek | The New York Observer (via noneck)

Mar 24th

Getting ready for a meetup on open government initiatives and technology http://bit.ly/boWl

Mar 23rd

MediaWiki Machinations

Planning some tricked out mediawiki magic to help open up the legislative process… found a good module for supporting comments here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleComments (not everyone is comfortable editing wiki content directly)

Mar 23rd

researching tracking/ticketing systems for internal requests for #NYSenate

Mar 23rd

Inaugural meeting of #NYSenate Data Working Group held today, bringing together reps Journal Clerk, Microfilm, Librarians, Counsel, etc.

Mar 20th

The type of Twitter support we’ll be providing the Senate. Get ready for interactive government: http://bit.ly/f1A93

Mar 20th

“Plain Language Initiative” prototype website launched by #NYSenate to help make sense of MTA’s budget: http://bit.ly/x08HW

Mar 18th

Mar 16th