In the embarrassing-admissions department, I have to confess I sometimes watch Kitchen Nightmares, that show in which the acerbic Gordon Ramsay (poster child for Thinking versus Feeling in the MBTI) shreds a failing restaurant along the way to rebuilding it into something successful. The predictable sequence is: Gordon enters the disaster zone, dissects what isRead… Read more »
Deltek Health Care and Social Services Analyst Aila Altman reports. Despite receiving millions of dollars in federal funding to get a leg up on developing federally-mandated health insurance exchanges, several Early Innovator Grant recipients continue to battle health care reform law. In total, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $241 millionRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Vivek Kundra to Leave White House in August. OMB Director Jack Lew has a nice good-bye post on the WH Blog for Vivek Kundra, who announced that he is leaving the administration in August for a fellowship at Harvard. Need to Find an Embassy? Look up a Travel Alert? There’s an App forRead… Read more »
Freedom of Speech is a righteous liberty that we’re afforded as Americans … and I wholeheartedly endorse every liberty that comes to us by virtue of our Bill of Rights! Notwithstanding these rights & privileges we often take for granted, I’d like to know just when we lost sight of our collective dignity & respectRead… Read more »
Happy Friday, everyone! You know what time it is. It’s time for the… Friday Fab 5! That special part of the week when we take a look back at a few of the awesome blogs, forums, quotes, groups, and members here on GovLoop. If you think they’re awesome too, go ahead and congratulate them (linksRead… Read more »
mLearnCon is coming up next week! June 21-23, we’ll be doing some intensive deep dives into how mobile devices can (and are) transforming learning across a lot of domains (corporate, government, medical, military, academia, edu, etc). I’m going to (try to) give you a sneak preview of what’s happening on the mLearning Future Zone stageRead… Read more »
You’ve received a job offer but you’re not pleased with the salary being offered. What do you do? ClearedJobs.Net HR Specialist Patra Frame discusses the best strategy for negotiating your offer, including salary. Your first consideration is, do you really want the job? Don’t waste anyone’s time with negotiations for a position that doesn’t interestRead… Read more »
CU, FACEBOOK, AND MORE. What happened at the Federal Election Commission meeting yesterday? The agency’s press release is here. Roll Call has a story on the meeting here. Kate Kaye of ClickZ has a report on the Facebook advisory opinion request here. DISCLOSURE DEADLINE. Roll Call. “More than one-fifth of House lawmakers — 92 ofRead… Read more »
This article was previously published on Tri Tuns blog. OBSERVATION User Adoption (UA) is critical to achieving your Return on Investment (ROI). What if you simply do not have the resources and time to establish all of the necessary components for a successful UA program? Enlisting the services of a UA consultant can help mitigateRead… Read more »
Many businesses, companies, organizations and government agencies have already tapped into the training potential offered by serious games and training simulations. In its most basic definition, a 3D training simulation is a highly specialized, custom designed and developed interactive 3D software program that allows individuals to learn and practice real world activities in a safe,Read… Read more »