10 (Relatively) Painless Icebreakers for Your Next Meeting
To make your next meeting a bit less cringe-worthy, here are 10 suggestions for easy, fun, and relatively painless icebreakers.
How to Develop Your Personal Brand
“So, tell me about yourself.” It should be the easiest question in any job interview. But surprisingly, many of us completely fumble our answers. Maybe it’s because we’re young and just starting out in our professional journeys, so there isn’t much to tell yet. Or maybe it’s because we really don’t know how we defineRead… Read more »
DorobekINSIDER LIVE: Understanding Data Analytics
Government has access to massive amounts of data, but what’s the point of all that data if you can’t take advantage of it? How should the data be stored? How can we sift through it all? What should we do with all of it? The answer is effective data analytical strategies. Which is why thisRead… Read more »
Opportunities For Young Professionals At Esri’s FedGIS
Esri’s Federal GIS Conference is only one week away! Held in Washington, D.C. on February 24th and 25th, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, federal employees will gather to learn how GIS can advance mission goals and to network with GIS leaders. The next day, February 26th, geospatial developers will have the chanceRead… Read more »
4 Keys to a Successful Data Analytics Program
There are countless stories of agencies using analytics to improve online services and better track internal metrics. But the path to a successful big data analytics implementation requires proper long-term planning that addresses growth, flexibility, agility and the evolution of technology.
From Down the Hall: Here’s How to Make Sure Executives, Managers and Employees Get Each Other’s Message
Remember the game telephone? One person whispers a message into the next person’s ear and that person whispers to the next, all the way down the line until the message no longer makes sense? That’s how communication within a large organization can feel sometimes.
8 Sanity-Saving Questions for Federal Web Managers
Questions to ask yourself to make sure your website is actually effective.
Cookbooks for Facebook and Twitter Reports
Social media reporting can be intimidating because it’s perceived as difficult to do. I try to simplify things as much as possible so that people will actually read my reports. Social media metrics only work if they are simple and easy to follow.
Breastfeeding at Work
You glance down at the right hand corner of your desktop. You know it’s almost that time. Your Outlook alarm reminded you 13 1/2 minutes ago that you have 15 minutes until your next pumping session. And you’re dreading it. You start making compromises with yourself. “Let me just answer this email and then I’llRead… Read more »
Early Mistakes We Made in Gov
One of my favorite professional development books is “Mistakes I Made at Work” by Jessica Bacal. It’s a compilation of 25 essays from influential women who admittedly made a few early detours on their road to success. I love the book because it not only offers some real advice for your early career, but itRead… Read more »