Career

Podcast: Heather Krasna on her new book, ‘Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service’

Join a conversation with career counselor Heather Krasna about her new book, “Jobs That Matter – Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service.” Heather talks about finding the right job for the public good, the process of writing her first book, and how she uses social networks such as GovLoop, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Member-of-the-Week: Tricia Garland

Tricia Garland Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Links: www.azdeq.gov, www.azstatejobs.gov Tricia’s blogs: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blog/list?user=1p0pkuujta2xf 1. What was your path to public service? While I was in college I was an intern for Honeywell working in the aerospace industry (government contractor) writing procedures, and I also worked as a telephone operator. In fact, some of the phoneRead… Read more »

New Report: Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report

A new report on the free access to law movement, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? Environmental Scan Report (2010) [URL updated 7 March 2011], has been published by a research team including the following members: Project Director – LexUM: Ivan Mokanov Director of LexUM: Daniel Poulin Research Coordinator – LexUM:Read… Read more »

Threaded Environments: changing the way we work

In our summer 2010 issue, Marnie Green, principle consultant of the Management Education Group, wrote about the growing trends that are changing the public workforce and dictating not only who we hire, but how we work. These four trends are: 1. Threaded Environments2. Self-Reliance3. Knowledge Sharing4. Portability Threaded environments require the development of internal andRead… Read more »

Anna Kournikova Allova Again: New Worm Underscores Need for Greater Cyber Awareness

In early 2001 a computer worm sent via email with the subject line “Here you have” created havoc for hundreds of thousands of Internet users. The malicious email promised recipients a file attachment containing a photo of tennis player Anna Kournikova. But when users clicked on the file to open it, they inadvertently executed codeRead… Read more »

Privacy News Highlights – August 15th

Some top privacy news Biometrics US – U.S. Scans Afghan Inmates for Biometric Database Wired reports on the U.S. military’s new detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, as “an emerging datafarm” where all detainees brought to the facility are given medical exams and have their irises scanned and fingerprints taken to be stored in a militaryRead… Read more »

Yu on Bringing Open Government to Courts

An interview has been posted with Harlan Yu of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), about the development of RECAP, the controversy over charging fees for access to court records through PACER, privacy respecting court records, the Law.gov legal open government data project, Mr. Yu’s Ph.D. research, and his presentation entitled GovernmentRead… Read more »

Christians In Government -Where Is The CrowdSourcing Tool We Need To Stop QURAN Burning?

We’ll I can only say that there is a lot for Christians to talk about today at the water cooler. Whether it’s the Islamic Center, or the ridiculous move to hold a public burning of the Koran, people of all Faith’s probably have a lot on their mind after last night’s interviews by Soledad O’Brien.Read… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 9, 2010

Should it stay or should it go? David Eaves: The Challenge of Open Data and Metrics and An Interview with Alex Howard Andrea DiMaio: Why We Must Get Rid of Open Government John Moore: The Missing Links of Government 2.0 Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step One, Consumer Chris Amico: Gov 2.0 – Challenge.govRead… Read more »