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Year: 2018

  • Documentation: Public Health Illustrations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

    Here’s a post I wrote about how a public health department can use local legends. http://www.derivativeworks.com/2018/04/these-public-health-illustrations-by-jack-davis-are-my-current-fascination.html

  • History of The Documenters Program at City Bureau

    Here’s a post from City Bureau founder Andrea Hart about the origins of the Documenters Program, which I co-created with Kyla Williams at Smart Chicago: How Did City Bureau’s Documenters Program Get Started? Snip: The original Documenters Program was created by Daniel X. O’Neil and Kyla Williams at the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic-technology funder collaborative founded in 2011 by…

  • Board chair at City Bureau

    Today I was elected board chair of City Bureau,  a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public. City Bureau is a wonder. The four founders have built an amazing…

  • Photo: Pussy Riot in Concert, used on Pussy Riot Twitter Feed

    A photo I took at a Chicago concert by Pussy Riot, a Moscow-based Russian feminist protest punk rock group  was used by the group on their Twitter account. Here’s my photo, taken March 7, 2018: Here’s my tweet of the photo, on March 8, 2018: And here’s Pussy Riot’s tweet of the same photo:

  • Communications: Blue Button Launch at HIMSS Conference

    Today the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0,  a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to secure applications, services and research programs that they trust”. Ad Hoc is working to develop this product as a subcontractor. I was responsible for the business development, capture, proposal development, and…

  • Voqal Chicago Grants, February 2018

    Today Voqal Chicago announced a series of  grants in Illinois. I serve on the board of Voqal Chicago, and I’m proud of the work we do to make things better for people here. Last month, @Voqal announced a series of grants from its Chicago—based board. These grants provide essential support for so many organizations doing…

  • New Role: Director of Marketing

    New Role: Director of Marketing

    Today I started a new role at Ad Hoc: Director of Marketing and Communications. Almost two years after I helped create the business development function at Ad Hoc, I am now moving over to kick off the marketing and communications department. Ad Hoc has grown from 6 to 120 people since I started, and I…

  • Writing: Toward a New Model for Corporate Governance

    Today I published an essay called, “Toward a New Model for Corporate Governance” Here’s a snip: http://www.derivativeworks.com/2018/01/toward-a-new-model-for-corporate-governance.html

  • Panel: Hidden Signals Challenge

    Recently I took part in scoring entries for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hidden Signals Challenge, a competition that “calls upon data innovators from a wide variety of fields—from data science, to civic tech, to epidemiology—to develop concepts for novel uses of existing data that will identify signals and achieve timelier alerts for biothreats…

  • ORD Camp: Back to Basics

    This morning I chaired an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at ORD Camp. 8 people attended, a mix of new members, old timers, and people who have alcoholics in their lives. Here’s the materials I created for the session, which might be useful in adapting for other conferences. Here’s a zip folder of all the…