Development by Davis: Development by Davis: “The Code for America brigade effect” plus 2 more

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Development by Davis: “The Code for America brigade effect” plus 2 more

The Code for America brigade effect
Creating Mail Contacts with Power Shell
TopCoder and InnoCentive making open innovation work for companies and contributors

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Have you ever seen results from your community engagement and realized the impact of your efforts? We recently told you about the LocalWiki project and shared some of the results from the Triangle Wiki day event. But then our friends at Code for America took it a step further.

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Creating Mail Contacts with Power Shell

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 08:49 PM PDT

I've began receiving a monthly CSV file that is a dump of the GAL from
another company we own. They are totally autonomous and there is no
chance of any AD integration between the two organizations, so these
records are being imported into our AD as mail contacts.

Here is the powershell script I created to do this:

TopCoder and InnoCentive making open innovation work for companies and contributors

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 10:51 AM PDT

"We've chronicled innovation since forever," said Jacob Ward, Popular Science's west coast bureau chief, moderating a SXSW panel on the promise of open innovation. "But in every case, the innovations that we were chronicling--even though we champion the garage inventor--most of them happened in seclusion or in the confines of an organization."