Month: March 2018

  • 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…