All Blog Posts Tagged 'event' (22)

1) Virtual engagements will become the norm - Immersive Virtual Environments (IVR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Digital Web-based Platforms (DWbP) will take off like a rocket this year.…

Join colleagues online to experience CDC's newest virtual event for 2012, the Public Health Informatics: Model Best Practices Virtual Meeting - streaming to your desktop. This immersive, virtual event will feature sessions and other exclusive content that will concentrate on the…

As we’re all aware, e-Government is an emerging opportunity of epic proportions. Between the former USCTO Aneesh Chopra's open data agenda, current USCTO Todd Park's doubling down of this agenda, USCIO Steve VanRoekel's Shared Services Strategy, and a myriad of other new initiatives calling all innovation in focused industries we will soon see rapid growth in the e-government world.



To further the quality and…

By now, you’ve probably heard of Caine Monroy, a nine year old boy who built a carnival-like arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s auto shop. The short documentary was viewed more than 4.5 million times in just a week, netting him a $152,000 scholarship, a non-profit foundation to help kids reach their…

Government, by necessity and obligation, must understand the competing interests and ideologies of the variety of identity groups that it serves. Put another way, those who are in charge must always have an ear to the ground if they want to remain in charge.

That being said, there is no silver bullet in terms of reaching and hearing everybody. There will always be a vocal minority who attempts to dominant the conversation, and in turn, the policy…

CDC will launch a hard-hitting national tobacco education campaign, called “Tips from Former Smokers.” The campaign features real people living with smoking-related diseases and disabilities, and encourages all smokers to quit. Watch the event live and/or follow @CDCTobaccoFree on Twitter to meet special guests featured in the campaign, and get a first look at campaign ads. Follow and use #CDCTips in your tweets for this event.

Live Webcast,  Thursday, March 15, 12:30 p.m., EDT:  …

Originally posted on codeforamerica.org

From February 24 through March 4, passionate citizens around the country will come together to "Code Across America" -- to make their cities even better. In over a dozen cities, there will be hackathons to build civic apps, "brigades" to deploy existing apps, unconferences to plan for the year ahead, and meetups to strengthen the community. Five of these cities are CityCamp cities.…

I wrote yesterday about "How to run a better offsite meeting or tour". And a good comment was posted asking if I had any suggestions for good ice breakers (basically). And my answer is: I've only ever experienced one that I felt had any value.

Typically exercises are cliches like "Tell us one thing about you that no one would…

By Steve O'Keeffe  http://bit.ly/lUJVM6

And, you thought I was i-teetotal? This week's installment is more of a shot than a beer.

If you’re in the D.C. area on June 9, please stop by Ireland’s Four Provinces in Falls Church to raise a Guinness and help celebrate…

By Steve O'Keeffe  http://bit.ly/lr5vNf



Tech is Uncle Sam’s Rodney Dangerfield - we don’t get no respect. Why? We know the budget of everything and the cost for nothing - how is it the Department of Energy doesn’t know its electricity bill? Truth is, IT’s techno babble and messy metrics turn off CFOs.

We already get $80 billion each year - so who cares, right? Well, Mr. Kundra should. OMB promises huge IT cost savings. But,…

Authored by Sean Tucker

It's a simple question – if the government shuts down, should I still go to an event where the speaker is a government employee? – but no one seems to have a simple answer.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) referred us to the…