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2017 NEWi Awards Winner – Best Government Solution

Social Pinpoint

We are proud to announce we are this year’s Best Government Solution winner! We couldn’t have done it without the great support of everyone in the Social Pinpoint community. Everyday, our customers bring forward great ideas, inspiration and comments about how we can improve our products to help make collaboration easier and more effective.

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Drones in Parks: Part 2. To Fly or Not to Fly: How Park Managers Manage Drones — Episode 007

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

In today’s episode, we’re continuing our three-part series on drones in parks. In the second segment, I speak with Evie Kirkwood, Director of St. Joseph County Parks in Indiana about: Their drone policy. Problems they’ve run into and how they’ve solved them. What their thoughts are for the future. How they currently use drones for their own needs. In part one, we looked at local, state and federal policies as well as resources for land managers.

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A primer on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking’s recommendations: An interview with Nick Hart, Bipartisan Policy Center – Episode #160

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

While Democrats and Republicans can’t seem to agree on much these days, there was a bright spot for bipartisanship recently: Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Patty Murray joined together to praise the recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP), which Ryan and Murray launched last year. The Commission was co-chaired by Katharine Abraham of the University of Maryland and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution.

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