CiviCore presents at Rocky Mountain Gov 2.0 Camp

CiviCore was at the Government 2.0 Camp Rocky Mountain camp held in Boulder, CO over the weekend.  The camp brought together leading thinkers from government, academia, and industry to share information about Government 2.0 initiatives.  The objective of the camp was to explore ways we can create a more collaborative, transparent, and effective government.

In 2009, the first Government 2.0 Camp was held in Washington D.C. to bring together leading thinkers from government, academia, and industry to share Government 2.0 initiatives that were in progress and to collaborate on ideas about leveraging social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to create a more collaborative, transparent, and effective government - Government 2.0.  That event was a success and laid the ground work for other Government 2.0 Camps throughout the United States.

Chic Naumer, co-founder of CiviCore, discussed some of the exciting new applications we have developed in this area and different approaches toward developing applications in this sphere.  A key theme of the presentation was on developing concept or problem centric systems that help people better understand policy issues.  Web 2.0 applications can be very important toward getting people to not only discuss statistics but to also to engage in discussions about how they are thinking about an issue.

See the entire presentation here -

A big thanks to organizers Scott Primeau and Brian Gryth as well as all the attendees for  a great conference!

CiviCore to attend Council on Foundations Convention this weekend!

CiviCore is excited to announce that we will be attending the Council on Foundations' annual conference in Denver, Colorado, this weekend.  The conference is titled "Intersections: Social Change, Social Justice, Social Innovation.  Explore philanthropy's role in moving markets, policy, civic engagement, and technology to promote public good."  The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from April 25-27.   Check out more information about the conference on the COF's website.

We have a high level of respect for the work that COF does, and we think that our work here at CiviCore falls right in line with the the subject of this year's conference.  We are passionate about leveraging technology to help make nonprofits more efficient and effective in their missions, whatever they may be.

If you are able to make it to the conference, please come visit us at booth 127.  We'll be showing off some new products, including Civic Indicators, a free Visual Impact Mapping tool, and perhaps a few others.  We look forward to seeing you there!