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Yearly Archives: 2011
Top 5 Citizen Engagement Initiatives 2011
Are we already at the end of 2011? Every year around this time we are all saying how quickly the year flew by. I went back and took a look at interesting citizen engagement initiatives launched in 2011. There were a lot of great examples to choose from, so it was tough to narrow theRead… Read more »
TSP Talk – Santa Claus Rally Shows Up
Stocks spent the week in a steady, low volume, holiday rally. For the TSP, the C-fund gained 3.80% on the week, the S-fund was up 3.48%, the I-fund added 2.27%, while the F-fund (bonds) lost 0.62%, and the G-fund was up 0.03%. For the month, the C-fund is now up 1.63% in December, the S-fundRead… Read more »
The Year in Social Media Strategery
As 2011 comes to a close, it’s only natural (and for a blog, virtually mandatory) to reflect on the year that’s passed. Since that first post more than three years ago until now, this blog has served as the foundation for everything I’ve done in creating and building the social media practice at Booz Allen.Read… Read more »
Rainmaker #9 Convey Your Business Personality – Easy, Simple, and Free
Definition: A Rainmaker creates a significant amount of new business for a company. The Sales Lab Rainmaker Series is one rainmaker technique for technologists during the first 300 seconds (five minutes) of the monthly Capital Technology Management Hub Meeting. This is the handout for our December meeting. At the beginning of this Rainmaker presentation inRead… Read more »
Paying the Price for Those Free Apps – Not Getting What You Don’t Pay For: Security
The Public Eye with Eric Chabrow We often don’t get what we don’t pay for with smartphones and their free apps: security. Continue…http://www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs.php?postID=1129&rf=2011-12-23-eg&elq=7a6e7a088ec74503a26fb1622f0e31f7&elqCampaignId=1040
Less Obvious Threat of Hidden Software – Software Records Keystrokes on Smartphones
The Public Eye with Eric Chabrow In a world where employees demand that they can access corporate networks via their mobile devices, news that software embedded in millions of Android smartphones can record every keystroke users make is troubling. What’s really scary, beyond the obvious, is the risk this hidden software poses to organizations tryingRead… Read more »
Sen. Harkin asks for investigation into Nikki Haley on health insurance exchange
Governor Nicki Haley of South Carolina is in hot water over emails deleted by her office. The Charleston Post and Courier uncovered the deleted emails after asking for emails from both her office and the state Department of Health and Human Services. The emails returned from the Department showed responses from the Governor which hadRead… Read more »
Bring back the Jester!
Since this will likely be my last post for 2011, I have decided to write it in the form of a wish for 2012; The Jester is due for a comeback. What is a Jester? “In ancient times courts employed fools and by the Middle Ages the jester was a familiar figure. In Renaissance times,Read… Read more »
Medical Insurance Help Please
I was just sitting here thinking, with all the uproar about health care, why is it not possible for grown children to put their parents on their health insurance, even if they get SSI or SS parents put children until age of 18 on health insurance. Wouldn’t that help some, or maybe get something calledRead… Read more »