Helen Coen is currently online community manager for the RSPCA, the UK’s leading animal welfare charity. Previously she has been a senior RSPCA press officer and award-winning journalist. She is also Dave’s sister. I admit it: I wasn’t always that interested in the internet and social media. In all honesty I was a tad old-schoolRead… Read more »
Over in the UK, Helpful Technology has released ‘The Digital Engagement Guide‘, which aims to become one of the best sources of useful examples, tools and practical advice about how UK public sector organisations can engage online. The site touts itself as “Part bookmark collection, part reference manual, part Q&A site, it’s a place toRead… Read more »
I’ve grown increasingly frustrated when I hear my PR colleagues tell me they’re going to “pitch the media.” Maybe it’s because my non-PR friends look at the term so pejoratively. Maybe it’s because it implies a certain level of salesmanship. Maybe it’s because it erodes my own idealistic view of the media as the fourthRead… Read more »
I got married a few months ago, and I noticed how getting married is like working on a procurement. They take a long time to plan. Unless you get married overnight in Reno, weddings can take months, sometimes years, to plan. The amount of time put into an acquisition before an RFP is released oftenRead… Read more »
We have written before about the incredibly innovative and virtuous capabilities of Liquid Robotics (see our Update on Liquid Robotics, for example). This really interesting company, led by CEO Bill Vass, is making huge inroads in sensor deployments in some of the most difficult to monitor parts of our planet. That is, the vast, openRead… Read more »
Happy 4th of July to the GovLoop Community! Last night I was reading a little bit about Norman Rockwell, I was feeling patriotic due to the holiday and decide to read a bit about some of his work. Just doing some Googling on Mr. Rockwell I was reminded of his series of paintings, The FourRead… Read more »
CTOvision, CTOlabs and the tech consultancy behind them Crucial Point LLC are all run out of the Washington DC area. We seek global views of technology but this region is definitely our base and we have a very high percentage of readers in the local ecosystem. For those of you here, you know the biggestRead… Read more »
In our own celebration of Independence Day, we decided that we should focus on Social Media Best Practices. After reading the title, you have to wonder who we are going to use to exemplify best practices in Social Media. After much deliberation, we picked Utah.Gov. Here is why: http://wp.me/p1v9sa-cH
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Excluding intelligence agencies, which keep their costs secret, the U.S. Government spent $11 billion last year keeping classified information secret, twice the cost of classification a decade ago. More here. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has built “a prototype for automatically generating and distributing believableRead… Read more »
On Today’s Special Edition of the DorobekINSIDER we’re talking HR! Human Resources. I know, these are the people you see when you first get hired. That just may be the problem. And we’ll talk about that. Click here for the full story. To get the best talent — you need to match google, pixar’s andRead… Read more »