This month, the Center for American Progress began chronicling the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s transition to a “results-only work environment” (ROWE) where employees are free to work when they want, where they want—so long as they meet predefined goals. It will be interesting to see how the change under wayRead… Read more »
The National Science Foundation has announcements open to people inside and outside the federal government, with a closing date of Nov. 5. See http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=91618438&JobTitle=Public+Affairs+Specialist%2c+GS1035-14+DE&q=%22National+Science+Foundation%22&where=&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&x=0&y=0&AVSDM=2010-10-22+00%3a03%3a00.
Thank you for inviting me to join in this 40th anniversary of Common Cause. Your founder, John Gardner, profoundly influenced my life and I welcome this opportunity to share some memories of him. When we met in 1965 John Gardner was already very wise and I was still very young. I never grew younger butRead… Read more »
Reply to @lindanaiman if you can help (looks like an opportunity to me). She writes a cool blog here. Her original tweet follows: @lindanaiman How do you create a #culture of #learning and #creativity that integrates #innovation into daily work? I’m looking for case studies.
Ogilvy Worldwide and Netvibes developed this tool in January, although I discovered it today. Selection of RSS feeds evidently is customizable if one sets up an account on Netvibes. This could be the best English-language aggregation of Word of Mouth marketing sources. I think studying these sources can help us motivate employees to engage inRead… Read more »
Wow – there is a great new article on Ushahidi’s blog about an application I told you all about recently, which encourages crowdsourcing to stop Italian forest fires before they start. This has huge potential to increase community resilience and assist current firespotting efforts in a nonintrusive way. A lovely video by Elena Rapisardi, theRead… Read more »
Elena Rapisardi, a new friend who contracts with, and does innovative volunteer work for, various parts of the Italian government, has reported out on an interesting meeting here. I bring this up because we don’t always notice when new ground is being broken and new fuel is being provided for our own further development andRead… Read more »
Greetings, All. A Silicon Valley technologist (and highly evolved member of our species) has uploaded a short PDF that’s worthy of this community of leaders’ attention. If anyone cares to know, my focus in 2009 was numbers 1,2, and 7 and it will remain so in 2010. Which metrics speak to you? A related post,Read… Read more »
Hi. Now that I have your attention, there are many ways to do this but I’m only going to talk about one. I think of it as, “Doing the Work.” Making a Contribution There are many ways to add value in public administration, whether you work in government or academe, a nonprofit or a corporation.Read… Read more »
Hi All, Halelly Azulay, President of TalentGrow and the DC chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, has just contributed an original perspective on this topic at Senior Fellows and Friends. She would love to have some conversation with you about it. Regards, Kitty Wooley