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No Interruptions Day

The bad news: The average office worker is interrupted -- by coworkers, emails, or phone calls -- every 11 minutes. Even worse is that it takes basically that much time to refocus on the task at hand. On this last business day for ...READ»

Government in the Digital Age: How Anil Dash's Expert Labs Is Speeding Democracy

There's an episode of 30 Rock in which Jack Donaghy takes a job with Homeland Security and gives a stirring speech to Congress so that his office can get pens. Finally, a large box of pens arrives--but it's filled with only the caps. ...READ»

Gina Trapani, Project Director at Expert Labs

Needing a practical way to organize this ever-increasing feedback, Trapani created the software that would evolve into ThinkTank, a free, open-source Web application. Expert Labs, a nonprofit lab affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, partnered with ThinkTank and brought Trapani on as project director.READ»

How Anil Dash Applies the Lessons of Web 2.0 to Government

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Expert Labs: Blogging Pioneer Anil Dash's Tech Incubator for the .Gov

The Six Apart cofounder announced a new collaboration between technologists and policy-makers that could reshape government.READ»