Career Advice: Why Initiative Beats Inertia

Originally posted by Lily Whiteman on thegovgurus.com: Even if you have the best boss in the world, you will never be more than your boss’s second most important priority. Indeed, no matter how kind and caring your boss is, how much camaraderie you share with your colleagues and how loving your family is, you’re theRead… Read more »

“A Federal Family Portrait” and “Reaching Generation C”

This past week, I delivered a couple presentations at the 2009 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition. Below are the slide decks. After you’ve had a chance to peruse them, I’d be interested in getting your feedback on a couple key question that arose in all of my sessions: 1.Read… Read more »

Federal Web 2.0 Virtual Podium Series – Final Webinar of the Series – this Wednesday @1pm EDT!

In case you haven’t heard about the Young AFCEA Bethesda Chapter Federal 2.0 Webinar series, the final webinar to wrap up the series is this Wednesday @1pm EDT! The topic is – Diplomacy in the Information Age — Working Toward Enterprise 2.0 at the State Department Speakers include: * Bruce G. Burton, Senior Advisor, OfficeRead… Read more »

How to Go From 4 to 400 LinkedIn Group Members in 4 Months

As someone who is studying the intersection of social media and generational diversity in the workforce (with an emphasis on the public and social sectors), I am intrigued by a couple key questions right now: What drives people to become engaged in social media? What are the decisive moments or key motivations that move aRead… Read more »

Sweet Gov Tweets – Wednesday May 27th

EllnMllr : RT @danmintz: RT @cheeky_geeky: Have you heard about the NY State Government BarCamp yet? http://capitolcamp.org #gov20 gahlord : The CDC shares it’s web analytics data report: ttp://cli.gs/govmetrics #opengov #usa danmintz : RT @cheeky_geeky: Have you heard about the NY State Government BarCamp yet? http://capitolcamp.org #gov20 govloop : On GovLoop: Leading Without the TitleRead… Read more »

Un-marketing and Gov 2.0

With the wildfire growth of social media tools the buzz out there around any person/institution/company/product/etc is growing. Given this, the promotion ways of the past need to be reexamined. Simply pushing your company/product/institution/self out there without room for feedback, engagement, or participation doesn’t work as well as it did in years past when the publicRead… Read more »

Sweet Gov Tweets – Friday May 22nd

A little uncensored sweet gov tweets….will streamline next edition. Campariman : Open Govt: 120 days since memo issued, good overview on Obama “open, transparent & participatory government” http://bit.ly/FpdUw #Gov20 quitzlipochtli : @georgholzer klingt gut. 🙂 #k2020 #opengov #pcg09 schneeengel : @georgholzer ich bin dabei… #k2020 #OpenGov #pcg09 georgholzer : Würde am #pcg09 gerne ganz kurzRead… Read more »