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In honor of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, Melissa House, Elections Partner Engineer at @USDResponse, talks about some of the numerous projects she works on, including one that helps counties manage their poll workers for #elections. 🇺🇸
mayor Michelle Wu @MayorWu is announcing a new forestry team as part of the Parks dept, focusing in upcoming weeks on neighborhoods with limited tree cover, including Chinatown, East Boston, Roxbury, Allston/Brighton
Greetings from @ElectionCenter2 earthlings. Very proud to be a conference New Bee 🐝 😂
I’ll be speaking with @priyaisms, @mkinthehouse and @LynnConstabile about low-code and using technology to save time running elections at 9:30am and 3:30pm. Come heckle us!
One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to work with the caliber of people at USDR - a bunch of smart, dedicated, kind, fun people. Reach out if you're interested in joining the team!
For those of you who aren’t up to date with my life, I’ve been working @USDResponse on free, open-source and low-code tools to support local election administration for the past two years. Yesterday, something happened that blew my mind 1/
📅 Very excited for this session on June 22nd where @alexallain and panelists @mkinthehouse more explore the engineering work behind how a collab w/ local election officials built our scalable Poll Worker Management tool.
Communities across the country need tech expertise to help them respond at the speed of need
Wondering how you as a technologist can support public servants? Check out Scaling Civic Technology: A Series on the Engineering of Public Service
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You know you're a nerd when it blows your mind to discover that Canadian governments can seamlessly send notifications to their citizens, for free: notification.canada.ca/
Saves 💰, better user experience...win-win. When are we getting this in the US? @aaronsnow 🙂
🗳 Are you a technologist who cares about elections & the poll workers who make them happen?
🙋🏽♀️ @USDResponse is hiring an Elections Program Tech Lead.
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🗳️ We're thrilled to announce the establishment of our Elections Program!
Our team is helping assist election officials through simple digital tools that will remove administrative burden and allow them to focus more on the needs of voters.
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A tragedy of many modern product teams is that they have been conditioned to feel smartest when debating metrics, reviewing charts, discussing complex analyses, and not feel smart or safe when broaching the topic of customer psychology, creative solutions, and cognitive biases.
Web3: We are a progressive movement to counterbalance capitalism and the concentration of power/wealth
Also Web3: In the future we will monetize literally everything and a person’s value will be determined by their market cap
Choose a lane bro
In the future, instead of measuring a creator's clout based on her Instagram following, we'll point to her market cap.
Tokens allow us to measure both breadth *and* depth of a creator's community. Examples 👇