The mission of the CFC is to promote and support philanthropy through a program that is employee focused, cost-efficient, and effective in providing all federal employees the opportunity to improve the quality of life for all. The 2011 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Leadership Conference kicked off this morning at 815. The opening presentation covered theRead… Read more »
Pretty cool new survey from Pew Internet. 28% of American adults use mobile and social location-based services More than a quarter (28%) of all American adults use mobile or social location-based services of some kind. This includes anyone who takes part in one or more of the following activities: 28% of cell owners use phonesRead… Read more »
The Back to School with Graduate School USA series is supported by the Graduate School USA. Let’s face it, we all learn best when we are having fun, right? I have found that the more interesting the topic of study, the more I excited I get about learning. For our next installment of the BackRead… Read more »
For the second video in our Esri video series, we will be talking with Jason Duke, Regional GIS Coordinator U.S Fish and Wildlife Service: Video Notes: Jason Duke defines the primary mission of the Fish and Wildlife Service, describes the early days of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the US Fish and Wildlife responseRead… Read more »
Happy Friday, everyone! This weekend is gearing up to be a great one! Not only is it a long, Labor Day weekend, but college football is kicking off! This GEICO Friday Fun Video is dedicated to all of you football fans out there! Who will you be rooting for this weekend? Don’t get stuck onRead… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but I was kind of bummed when NASA decided that the moon wasn’t cool enough to keep going to. I guess it’s like any vacation locale… you go enough times and it just loses it’s luster. NASA has said it is not focusing it’s efforts on landing on Mars. MarsRead… Read more »
The Washington Post Reports that USA Jobs will be getting new features to make the job application process easier. Between October 6 and12 the Office of Personnel Management will transfer data from monster.com to internal hosting due to cybersecurity concerns. During this time the site will be offline and no new jobs will be posted.Read… Read more »
The White House has announced a new way for citizens to petition the federal government to take action, through the “We the People” initiative. This is a really cool citizen engagement initiative coming out of the White House. Individuals will be able to either create or sign a petition and if they can get 5,00Read… Read more »
The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit the Sprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. I’ve been seeing a lot of images from all over after last week’s east coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene. This got me thinking. Our world has changedRead… Read more »
I can’t tell you how many hours of my life have spent poking around Facebook. It’s one amazing (and addicting) website! But did you know that you can actually save money by being on Facebook? Money on your insurance that is. GEICO recently released their “Get a Quote” app on their Facebook page. I triedRead… Read more »