A month ago, I had the opportunity to attend a standing-room-only business meeting with members and supporters of Minorities in Technology Sales (MiTS), a non-profit organization led by Mark Hill, Executive Director. This meeting was exceptionally hosted in first-class facilities by Gary Newgaard, SVP of Corporate Development at ASRC Management Systems in Greenbelt, Maryland. TheRead… Read more »
5 Part Series for New Employees Your new to government and you are wondering…wow…what do I do now.. Any new job is a transition (especially a first job out of college) and government is no different. As such, here is the Mr. GovLoop 5 part guide to getting going…. Part 1 – The Basics ThereRead… Read more »
Top 5 – Ways to Handle a Boring Meeting I’m writing a little series on Top 5s. I’ll write my top 5s on various topics and I encourage you to write yours. Meetings can be super boring. Thus we need survival mechanisms. Here’s my top 5 survival mechanisms. 1 – Blackberry messenger – most GoviesRead… Read more »
Olivier Charbonneau, Associate Librarian at Concordia University, and author of the Culturelibre blog, has posted Collaboration and Open Access to Law, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this new post, Mr. Charbonneau presents a model — called the Collaborative Document Management Framework (CDMF) — ofRead… Read more »
With all of the Agencies putting together their OpenGov plans due in April, I am curious as to how many have a coherent Social Media Strategy. developing-a-social-strategy-webinar is a great starting point. How do Agencies go beyond using social channels to simply push information and instead actually engage and listen to employees and the generalRead… Read more »
We generally have a disconnect between the person, business, or agency that we want to be and the reality of who or what we are today. This disconnect is a great thing, an opportunity for growth an opportunity for improvement. However, when not understood, it is also a major pain point, something that leads yourRead… Read more »
This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com If you recall my post early on regarding the lessons I learned from 25 years as a CIA manager, I was able to recall 16. (And I also promised to flesh out most of them in individual posts–still planning on it.) But I ran across this usefulRead… Read more »
This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com. In my posting on Lessons from a CIA manager, Lesson 2 was: “Remember, your decisions are going to have much less staying power than you’re expecting them to have. Decisions are not committed relationships; they are more like one-night stands.” As perhaps this analogy is not eminentlyRead… Read more »
A call for papers, with [extended] submission deadline of 21 March 2010, 7 March 2010 has been issued for EGOVIS 2010: The International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, to be held August 30-September 3, 2010, in Bilbao, Spain, in conjunction with the DEXA 2010 conference. Papers are invited on the followingRead… Read more »
This blog got kicked off by the press announcement that Structured Dynamics had donated its Semantic Enterprise Adoption and Solutions, or SEAS, methodology to MIKE 2.0, which stands for Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment. My guess is that MIKE hasn’t hit your attention yet, but I am going to suggest it might be goodRead… Read more »