How to Start Your Government Shutdown Traditions
The habits you embrace for handling one shutdown will help you benefit from other ones later in your public service career.
Effective Techniques for Managing Understaffed Cybersecurity Teams
The government has a great need for managers to recognize the downstream impact of running an understaffed team. Managers face the challenge of balancing organizational goals, maintaining morale, prioritizing work efforts and reducing attrition.
Common Myths About Cloud Backup
In healthcare agencies, it’s critical that data not only be secure but also available in the case of disaster. In the event of a system failure or cybersecurity breach, healthcare organizations must be able to quickly recover secure copies of patient, provider and payer data. Access to this information could literally be a life orRead… Read more »
Modernizing IT – A Network With Intent
As part of any modernization/digitization effort, new technologies and strategies should be researched and understood before any plan is initiated. Let’s dive into how the digital environment is changing and how the network needs to change to support it.
5 Things Reporters Want You to Know
Over the course of your career in government, you may well field news media requests. For some, that’s not a pleasant task. Here’s what you need to know to ensure your news interview is a great opportunity rather than a career crimper.
How to Keep Busy During a Shutdown
There are some things you can do to help keep yourself moving forward if you have extra time on your hands.
Leveraging Fluid IT Management Solutions That Build on Each Other
Agencies can improve their modernization initiatives, and address concerns around security, by consolidating their IT solutions with the help of ITOM tools and the five-step process. Not only can consolidation help with modernization efforts and security, but it can also improve efficiency and cost-savings.
How AI Chatbots Are Becoming a Talking Point
Chatbots use AI to simulate human conversation, and agencies nationwide are finding them valuable for constituent and information services.
The Secrets of Preselection of Federal Jobs
Federal hiring regulations require most federal job openings to be advertised and filled through open competitions. But some job openings—and no one knows how many—are secretly targeted for a preselected applicant and are only advertised to mimic adherence to regulations.
The Impact of Shutdowns on Workplace Efficiency and Morale
It is my concern, over a period of years, there have been a series of events which are affecting the attitudes of those workers we depend on to keep our country operating.