<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It's a fair while since our colleagues at BetaNYC did a talk - they are big on workshops, and hack sessions. But in their 2016 plan they vowed to get the program going again. The change is that they've shifted to lunchtimes. They opened the 2016 with a blockbuster, bringing Greg Bloom up from DC to explicate the Open Referral Initiative, something of a moonshot, to cure disfunctional social service management. Greg was very complimentary about Bloomberg era reforms which make NYC something of a poster child of interagency data exchange. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;background:#ddd;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666;text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "On Monday Feb 8 2016 BetaNYC hosted #BetaTalk - Open Referral and the future of "the safety net". Greg Bloom introduces the Open Referral Initiative and discusses its mission to make it easy to share, find, and use social service data. This conversation d" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width: 100%; background-image: ; background-color: #43a4d0; height: 8px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">On Monday Feb 8 2016 BetaNYC hosted #BetaTalk - Open Referral and the future of "the safety net". Greg Bloom introduces the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://openreferral.org/" tabindex="-1">Open Referral Initiative</a> and discusses its mission to make it easy to share, find, and use social service data. This conversation dives into the issues needed to build a networked future of service providers, their data, and the people who need it most.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a class="playable" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4AOYkXMDCg&w=600&h=338" tabindex="-1"><img style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/f4AOYkXMDCg/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://youtu.be/f4AOYkXMDCg" tabindex="-1">https://youtu.be/f4AOYkXMDCg</a><br> <strong>Edit captions</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=f4AOYkXMDCg" tabindex="-1">http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=f4AOYkXMDCg</a><br> <strong>Twitter: </strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=open_referral" tabindex="-1">@Open_Referral</a></p></div><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#666;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em;padding:0;width:auto;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:0em;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-left:0"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8298#respond" tabindex="-1">Comment</a></td><td>   <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8298#comments" tabindex="-1">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" c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