Category: Launch
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Radio: Discussion on WBEZ’s Morning Shift re: Data Journalism and the Civic Innovation in Chicago Project
This morning I participated in a discussion about the launch of Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Civic Innovation in Chicago project on WBEZ: Bonus: Dolly Varden! I also wrote a companion blog post talking about the importance of including as many Chicago residents as possible in civic innovation. Click here for sound file if embed link is…
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Launch: Early Childhood Portal for City of Chicago
Today marked the launch of ChicagoEarlyLearning.org, Here’s some snips from the press release from the Mayor’s Office: As part of the his administration’s focus on increasing access to quality early learning programs for children across the city and emphasis on helping parents get and stay involved in their children’s education, Mayor Rahm Emanuel today launched…
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Launch: Illinois Open Technology Challenge
Today Governor Quinn announced the launch of the Illinois Open Technology Challenge, a project that Smart Chicago is running in collaboration with the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition. Here’s a pretty extensive post with details on the launch.
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Launch: Smart Chicago at 1871
Today Smart Chicago was part of the inaugural class of tenants at 1871, Chicago’s digital startup center.
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LAUNCH: AldermanicWebsites.com
Today I launched a politics/ design/ technology/ humor site called AldermanicWebsites.Here’s the launch post (Comparing Aldermanic Hopefuls Online) and two snippets: Here’s something I worked on over Christmas vacation: AldermanicWebsites. It is a fun/ manic little Web site that “contains links to and reviews of the Web sites, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other Web…
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The Launch of CityPayments
Today I helped launch CityPayments. Here’s a snippet from the launch blog post: Take a look at CityPayments, a database of all vendors, contracts, and payments that have been posted by the municipal government of the City of Chicago to the Vendor, Contract, and Payment Search lookup tool maintained by the Department of Procurement Services.
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Launch: Demolition Hold List
Today I put a new thing on the Internet: Demolition Hold List, Chicago, IL: A place for info about architecturally significant buildings in danger of being demolished (or are already gone). Please take a look at all of the great buildings and, if you can, contribute photos, text, and memories of the buildings listed there. I…
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LAUNCH: New York Attorney General Expired Pharmacy Products Investigation Locations
Today at EveryBlock we launched a new project: New York Attorney General Expired Pharmacy Products Investigation Locations. It’s one thing to read a story about an investigation of expired products in pharmacies across your state, but it’s another thing altogether to see that your drugstore has been selling expired products.
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ChicagoWorksForYou.com
I conceived of and created this Web site for the City of Chicago, which is ready for launch this month.