The biggest news out of the historic back-to-back snow storms this winter season is not the shortage of snow shovels or the Open Government initiatives deadlines, but rather how telework has become mainstream. As a long time Washington DC professional, I remember numerous snow storms over the last twenty years that have closed schools andRead… Read more »
Federal workers who attempted to get to the office on Friday morning faced poorly plowed roads, lengthy backups and then, most nerve-wracking of all, a Metro derailment in downtown Washington. Dr. Gridlock, Robert Thomson, wrote early this morning on The Post’s Get There blog to expect a more difficult commute than normal. That warning provedRead… Read more »
Nominations are being accepted until February 19, 2010. Start your online application now at http://www.citizenservices.gov/aboutus/AwardNomination.php In the interest of open and transparent government, the award applications are being posted on the program blog as they come in http://citizenserviceaward.wordpress.com/ Participate in the judging process by leaving comments. If your agency has already applied, engage your employees.Read… Read more »
http://www.fedinsider.com By any measure, the 2011 budget request from the Obama administration is big. But when it comes to federal spending on IT in the next fiscal, it’s clear that the days of high single-digit or double-digit growth are over. Spending will be approximately $80 billion, a slight increase over enacted 2010 spending. But theRead… Read more »
Happy Friday! Americans are increasingly comfortable with gay men and lesbians openly serving in the U.S. military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. As The Eye as Post polling analyst Jennifer Agiesta report in today’s Post, public support for allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly now far outpaces that in theRead… Read more »
The Senate confirmed 27 executive branch nominees Thursday after President Obama threatened earlier in the week to use recess appointments for some of the long-stalled picks. “At the beginning of the week, a staggering 63 nominees had been stalled in the Senate because one or more senators placed a hold on their nomination,” Obama saidRead… Read more »
I wrote about Pip.io at the end of October and I was very impressed with the product in its beta form. If you have not yet read the post, you should. The product, as I wrote about it then, has not changed dramatically in terms of functionality. The team has focused on the underlying platformRead… Read more »
Couldn’t resist the title or the tie-in given the the events of my day. Someone was asking me about the SCRM Summit that is taking place and I noted that I was not invited and knew nothing of the details of the summit. The dialog took place in the warm confines of twitter, where everythingRead… Read more »
Washington area federal offices will open on Friday with a two-hour delayed arrival and with unscheduled leave policy in effect, following a week of record snow fall. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for higher, yet chilly temperatures and high winds and sun. The decision means Washington area federal offices will open and workers should plan to arriveRead… Read more »
My husband loves USA Today (no offense to him or the paper, but it’s mostly because of the colors and graphics). A few weeks ago, he called me at work to ask if I’d seen their story “More governors finding Twitter tweets sweet.” (Background: This is relevant to me since I oversee social media forRead… Read more »