March 2010 Blog Posts (390)

Happy Monday! Almost half of the federal government's human resources officials say they have not received adequate training on how to manage and retain employees with severe disabilities, according to the results

of a survey by the Telework

Exchange and the Federal

Managers Association set for release Monday. Many of those officials

are also unfamiliar with mandates designed to…

New Employee Guide - Part 5 – Keep it Going

Now that you’ve gotten…

Approximately one month has gone by since I became "participative" on GovLoop. I became a member almost a year ago, but it took me awhile start utilizing the great opportunities available here. My background includes county, city, airport and hospital based procurement and e-procurement blended with bidding some federally funded capital projects under federal rules. Overall, my…

After getting out of Transparency Camp 2010, I wanted to post a summary of a talk I gave. While it is not acquisition related, I believe it is important enough to put here. There was a lot of feedback and talk on how to make this idea happen. The 2.0 version will be posted next week once it is further refined.

Core Idea

A Civilian Transparency Reserve, activated by the…

IT”S ONLY A SAFETY PIN! A true story…

Government of the people, meet the people. With technology making our world smaller and more closely interconnected than ever before, it seems only natural that new social media like SeeClickFix.com could link citizens and government in productive dialogue about issues affecting the public space. Recently we helped bicyclists in Lansing, Michigan help clean up debris-coated bike…

Janet Weiner's daughter Melissa seemed perfect at birth. With a 2 ½-year-old boy at home, things seemed to be going great. But 14 weeks later, Weiner and her family took Melissa to a friend's christening and realized their 8-pound daughter looked like the newborns. After a series of tests, they learned Melissa had cystic fibrosis-and so did her seemingly healthy brother, Matthew.

Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening genetic disease…