On September 27, the President signed the Small Business Jobs Act. This now opens the door for a renewal of the 90% SBA guarantee on the 7(a) loan program thru the end of December 2010. The fee relief afforded under Section 501 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been extended throughRead… Read more »
As many leaders in the government industry know, we live in an increasingly borderless world. Greater access to technology has removed many barriers to connecting people and resources. In order to understand how to effectively operate in this new, complex environment, IBM conducted a Global CHRO Study with nearly 600 face-to-face interviews with HR executivesRead… Read more »
I’ve had a really interesting week last week. I spent time in Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria. In Edmonton, I delivered social media training at the Affects Symposium hosted by the Alberta Federal Council. I ran three separate workshops on social media: (1) Putting the Social in Social Media; (2) Social Media 101 for Personal DevelopmentRead… Read more »
Initially it sounds like a great way to land a job – creating a video resume to get you the interview. I know it shows creativity, communication skills, and your fashion sense, but is it a little TOO much information too soon? I think so. If you’ve read some of my other job search blogsRead… Read more »
Robb Shecter, creator of OregonLaws.org and WebLaws.org — and a member of our community — has announced a new, innovative service: Permalinks to U.S. Trademark Records. Robb explains that currently, links to trademark and servicemark online registration records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) expire after a short time, and the PTO offersRead… Read more »
I just returned from a great two-day training session with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service web team, in Indianapolis. Kudos to Debra Harris for organizing it. She’s a real emerging leader in the web community. I was doing the training, but that isn’t what made these two days great (well, gosh, maybe I hadRead… Read more »
Last month the American Art Museum received a commendation for Art Signs OnLine from the international JODI Awards which recognize innovative uses of digital media to make museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and heritage venues more accessible to disabled people. Susan Nichols, Chief of Education at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells us about the genesisRead… Read more »
The October 7th edition of Federal Daily says that Disability Hiring for the Feds is hampered by Agency attitudes and low expectations for success. The article references a Government Accountability Office focus group which determined that Federal agencies need to fundamentally change their cultural atmosphere which holds people with disabilities as poor hiring candidates ifRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Salon interviews Steven Johnson, the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From,” who argues that what we need to focus on is making incremental changes rather than trying to achieve singular epiphanies or game-changing brakthroughs. Great advice for career govvies! Mashable explores the difference between facebook and twitter, saying that the former isRead… Read more »
Recently, Justin Herman suggested that we might create more excitement and involvement in Gov2.0 by developing “Fantasy Policy Leagues”. What’s intriguing to me about Justin’s idea is that Fantasy Football uses people’s excitement and attachment to local teams to transform passive viewers into active coaches, getting them more deeply involved in strategy. The challenge isRead… Read more »