5 Eye-opening Data Lessons after a Year of Sheltering at Home
Feb 10, 2021 3:02:54 PM
5 Eye-opening Data Lessons after a Year of Sheltering at Home
by the mySidewalk Team on Feb 10, 2021 3:02:54 PM
We believe that data in the right hands can make a better world. This has never been more apparent to us than in the past 12 months. That’s because data has done some incredible things this year. Here are just a few examples: We have sheltered at home watching Covid cases rise and fal …
A Better City Performance Dashboard: Data Has Never Been So Sexy
by the mySidewalk Team on Aug 27, 2020 4:01:22 PM
What did City Leaders need most? That was our question in early 2019. The mySidewalk team interviewed dozens of city departments around the U.S. to answer it. Our goal was to understand what the perfect city performance management solution looked like. Leaders told us they needed a be …
Customer Spotlight: Next Level City KPI Transparency [Video]
by the mySidewalk Team on Jul 24, 2020 11:19:16 AM
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During a crisis, communication is more crucial than ever. So today, we're turning our customer spotlight on our partner, the City of Williamsburg, Virginia. Showing off their unique take on mySidewalk's performance management template to measure their key performance indicators, commu …
5 Reasons Your City Needs Realistic Peers
by the mySidewalk Team on Jul 2, 2020 1:09:10 PM
Peer cities can be a powerful framework for understanding progress in your community. Yet the process of identifying peers is complicated, because it involves underlying value judgments about what you think matters to a community. There are inevitably temptations to compare your commu …
COVID-19 Affects People Differently Based On Where They Are
by the mySidewalk Team on Jun 24, 2020 12:49:15 PM
I’ve been interviewing folks on the mySidewalk leadership team about how they’re viewing COVID-19 through a disaster recovery lens. I learned from our CEO, Stephen Hardy, that disaster recovery 101 begins by accepting that you can’t put things back to how they were before. Your goal i …
5 Remote Work Takeaways for Local Government
by the mySidewalk Team on May 26, 2020 1:12:46 PM
"The business of government doesn't stop." The City Manager of Williamsburg, VA often shares this line with his team of dedicated public servants. It rings true for them, and during the last few months of COVID-19, it rings true for everyone.
Disaster Recovery Means You Never Go Back to Normal
by the mySidewalk Team on May 21, 2020 8:07:20 AM
He walks into the office wearing a baseball cap and is laughing within 10 minutes. That’s how I think of Stephen Hardy, mySidewalk’s CEO. When I met him, I remember thinking how much his exuberance was a rare (but welcome) departure from the traditional stiff CEO. For example, right a …
How to Apply for Grant Funding During COVID-19
by the mySidewalk Team on Apr 24, 2020 1:27:28 PM
Your agency is likely hurting. No matter what kind of funding you have or have not received as part of the new COVID-19 stimulus and grants, it’s probably not enough. For many of you, you’re also covering extra costs tied directly to public health response efforts. So getting addition …
City Performance: How to Get Your City Ready for Data Transformation
by the mySidewalk Team on Feb 21, 2020 9:18:14 AM
It’s no secret that just as advances in technology and data analytics have made the phones in our hands more powerful and useful, so too have these same advances powered “smart city” transformations in local government. Location-based data once limited to the military can now be found …
mySidewalk Empowers Williamsburg to Map City Performance KPIs
by the mySidewalk Team on Jan 17, 2020 9:48:00 PM
I had no idea what to expect. As one of the newest members on the mySidewalk team, I had just barely gotten my head wrapped around what we did. So when I was asked to interview the city leaders of Williamsburg, Virginia, to learn about how they were leveraging our Performance Dashboar …
