Monthly Archives: April 2011

Weekend recap – education reform and the cowboy code

The weekend recap is the place to find out what happened last week and what’s ahead in state legislatures across the nation. Read on to learn about what you might have missed between between brunch and waking up to the cruel realization that it’s Monday. Want to call out something happening in your statehouse? EmailRead… Read more »

EMC’s acquisition of NetWitness means many virtuous/positive things for the community

NetWitness is a company we have been tracking for quite a while. The firm had roots in the mission needs of federal enterprises with sensitive information protection needs. Its intellectual property and visionary team combined made quite a contribution to network defense. We watched as the firm moved from a beginning in forensics to aRead… Read more »

Welcome to Public Health Week!

Ah, April. Once again we are welcoming the month by shaking off the chill of the wintery months and getting into the mood for new life, warmer weather and recognition of the public health field. That’s right folks – we’ve made it to another Public Health Week! This year the theme is entitled: Safety isRead… Read more »

The Cloud and Cybersecurity

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. As part of federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s 25-point plan to reform federal IT management announced last December, federal agencies must adopt a “cloud-first” policy that requires them to move three applications to the “cloud” over the next 12 to 18 months. Agencies must identify theRead… Read more »

Communications

This week we are conducting a workshop based on our book DISCover Your Communication Style. 2 groups of 50 people in Social Services. A real need for team communication within these depts don’t you think?

Govloop Bracket Winners and National Championship Pick (Men’s NCAA Division One Basketball Finals) from the @hokieguru, your bureacrat on sports!!

Good morning, Govloopers… here’s your daily government shutdown update… looks like it’s going to be touch and go. I think we will make it, though, and the government should operate until the end of Fiscal Year 2011. The next battles will be the Fiscal 2012 appropriations process, a vote to extend the budget debt ceiling,Read… Read more »

TMC – Too Much Connection

You ever wonder about the first person who bought a fax machine? The first person to buy a cell phone? How about the first person who set up an email account? These early pioneers must have had some difficulty in demonstrating the benefits of these these technologies because of the very small base of users.Read… Read more »

The Accidental Website Visitor

If you manage website content, then this advice from Gerry McGovern from his April 3rd blog post is well worth considering … It’s very important that you don’t attract the wrong type of person to your website. I dealt with a specialist government health website some years ago. Its objective was to help medical researchersRead… Read more »

A look at three 7 inch Android Tablets

I’ve been checking out a few Android tablets lately. All three use ARM based processors and run Android 2.x. The Barnes and Noble Nook Color runs a skinned over version of Android 2.1, while the Stream TV Elocity A7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab run Android 2.2. All have 7″ capacitive touch screens, however they areRead… Read more »