Andrea Schneider's Page

I am very interested in this project. Douglas has an excellent idea.

My career is based on building community partnerships, alliances, programs, leveraging resources, collaboration & creating frameworks for collaboration and effective action. I am not a fan of planning to plan.

I want to share important ideas with other people and find more opportunities to go beyond the ordinary. I am interested in innovation in government and partnering with the private sector.

My background is unusual. Each step was created for me or by me, no one had done the job previously. I broke new ground every time and always live ahead of the curve. My focus is always on practice, innovation, moving information and research into projects and programs.

I care about people getting good information and skills, to make the biggest difference possible, in the fastest way available. No hoarding of education or relevant knowledge.

I founded and directed the Santa Clara County Prevention Office and created an entire division based on reducing risk and increasing resiliency in the community and for kids.

As Principal Investigator for a HHS federal grant ($3M) we created the Community Partnership of Santa Clara County. We did original, applied research on collaborative models, qualitative evaluation and social marketing.

This is where I learned all about collaboration. One of my most special collaborative projects was helping American Indian Community, in the Bay Area, to develop the Urban American Indian Tribe. This was extraordinary and compelling.

I was invited to serve as a Fellow in the United States Justice Department/COPS agency. My assignment was to retrospectively evaluated 96 innovative Advancing Community Policing Grants in the U.S.

The evaluation of these projects was not built into the original grant proposal. I wrote a book about the results which has been distributed to over 7,000 police departments.

I have testified before Congress, served on numerous expert panels, spoken at conferences conducted workshops, provided technical assistance and now merged my background with social networking.

My network is called pdxdog.com. Portland is a dog crazy town and I wanted to see if I could build an online community based on the principles of best practices.

I love my dog and dogs in general. They are without a doubt part of our community and make meeting other people very easy. That's the logic behind doing dog stuff.

On GovLoop I founded two groups: Social Networking, Innovation & Leadership in the Applied Setting and Who Runs the Show, a group addressing the generations on the platform right now. My Social Networking group is much more active and I write a lot and engage my group members.

Running a network has proven to be much harder and more rewarding than I ever thought. I love writing in my GovLoop group. Across the board participation is an issue.
Not unlike running groups in "real" life actually. Supporting the network is also another on-going problem.

I have a lot of questions about the convergence of social media and communities and I'm interested in discovering best practices with other people.