Leadership

Large-Scale Biocomputational Research Meets Cloud Computing

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — More data is being produced, analyzed, shared, and stored than ever before. Scientific research, particularly biological sciences like genomics, is one of the more prominent examples of this, with laboratories producing terabytes of information every minute. There are many challenges moving forward with large-scale computational research in the biosciences andRead… Read more »

Should I reveal my leadership in certain organizations on my resume?

Here’s a question I recently was asked: Should I reveal my leadership in an organization that reveals something personal about me, on my resume? For example, leadership in an addiction recovery organization? Here is my opinion. It is definitely opinion and others may disagree. I would welcome a heated debate about this, as a matterRead… Read more »

The 30-Foot View: Reflections on a Social Media in Government Conference

A while ago, I don’t remember what conference, one of the break-out questions was “how will we know Gov 2.0 is succeeding?” One of the participants answered “When we don’t have to ask ourselves if Gov 2.0 is succeeding.” On December 6 and 7, I attended the ALI Social Media in Government conference in LasRead… Read more »

The White House Wants You, Esteemed Experts!

The White House has been busy the last couple weeks, marking the first anniversary of the Open Government Directive with a live Q&A session, releasing a 25-Point Federal CIO Implementation Plan, and posting an ExpertNet RFI. We also shared a great analysis of the Open Government Initiative by Ph.D. candidate Angela Newell. This week, weRead… Read more »

The Final Hoop – Database, database, database

I never thought the dissertation would take as long as it is. I’m a writer by trade – a former journalist and editor – so for most of my career as a Ph.D. student, I’ve been looking forward to my dissertation. But, unfortunately, writing is not what I’ve done so far. I’ve spent hours, days,Read… Read more »

Federal procurement update

At last Thursday’s Bisnow Federal Procurement Update Dan Gordon, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy with OMB and Steve Schooner, Co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University, discussed federal procurement and how it needs to change in the current budget environment. Increase in procurement dollars Beginning in 2001 government procurement figures soaredRead… Read more »

Ressler’s Rule #10: If you don’t systematically plan, life is a series of random events

There is a great old George Harrison song, which is titled “If you don’t know where you are going, anyroad will get you there.” Presumably, there is a corollary “if you know where you are going make sureyou pick a road that gets you there”. Moving forward without any direction appears to be the preferredmethodRead… Read more »