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This post is cowritten by AdamElkus and Alex Olesker.

Before we begin, please understand just how hard it is for us to write this blog. I’ve read Neuromancer countless times, enthusiastically used Snow Crash in undergrad to talk…

This is the second part of a post about BlueLight Camp, an unconference for Emergency responders, and those who work with them. The session I want to talk about this time was run by Farida Vis. Farida was a member of the team that analysed the 2.6 million tweets generated before, during and immediately after the riots that took place in the UK over the…

Some books deserve a closer read. One of these is The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. Follow along as I…

Buying a home is probably one of the biggest purchases we will make in our lives. It's also something that many of us end up living with for an extensive period of time. In my lifetime, I have been involved in the purchase of five homes, but the tips I am going to share with you were not gained through my home-buying experience. Nope, I picked up these tidbits of caution and…

The 2012 Clearmark Plain Language Awardshave been announced.  As a 3-time judge for the government web and media entries, I have to tell you - this is a stellar group.  The quality of entries in this awards program has improved by leaps and bounds, over the past 3 years.  The winners give government agencies some wonderful models for plain writing.…

Dallas (Thursday, April 12, 2012)– The RTCC (Real Time Crime Center) of the Philadelphia Police Department today launched iWatchPhiladelphia, a mobile app and “Centralized Investigational Dashboard” (CID) software suite that lets any citizen to report suspected criminal activities, respond to police requests for information, or submit photos or videos anonymously from smartphones directly to the officers investigating a specific…

Naugatuck Police to Roll Out New Crime Tip Smartphone App

iWatchNaugatuck, a new application that is expected to be available this year, allows residents to send in anonymous tips, photos and videos of criminal activity right from an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android.

The Naugatuck Police Department is expected to roll out a…

I always have to scratch my head at the curiosity of how the federal government operates in regards to budgetary matters. Although commercial best practices are all the rage in government, such as trying to leverage technologies and become more efficient, innovative, and agile, the one area that always seemed to be polar-opposite was the budget.

Last week was a holiday shortened week and we went into Friday with just minor losses in the stock market, but as you may have heard, the May jobs report came in well below expectation and stocks sold off sharply.  If you missed it, estimates were looking for an increase of 150,000 jobs and we got less than half of that, plus the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2%.







Here are the TSP fund…

Despite increasing public support (as well as a number of executive mandates) publishing public data in a machine-readable format is not as simple as pressing the “publish” button. Why? Equally important as exposing the information itself is fostering a vibrant developer ecosystem around it. By making the publishing agency, not the public, responsible for making information immediately useful, government can lower the barriers associated with consuming its data and introduce additional…

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In January GovExec ran "Restoring The Brand," a feature story describing efforts by pro-government employee groups to show how important we are…

Facebook has introduced new roles for pages (see graphic). The manager of a page can assign the following roles:

• Content Creator
• Moderator
• Advertiser
• Insight Analyst

What is unclear to me is that the manager of the page does not have the same rights as the other roles and is not able to…

Video: "What Would You Do" TV show, ABC - Customers are tested: What would you do if you saw a clerk cheating a customer out of their lottery winnings?







I love the ABC-TV show "What Would You Do?"



It sets up typical life situations where a person witnesses…

Read a blog that referred me to this YouTube Video...

The only downside is that I have gone through most of my life without the opportunity to view this video!

Caution a 1 hour plus video/lecture!

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving…