We all go through egocentric phases, and we need to understand them. We admit our audiences or trainees are all egocentric. The fact is that we all are, but we, as trainers, even need to see how we change over time and how it affects our decisions, attitudes and choices. Shakespeare’s quote never made moreRead… Read more »
The PMP Exam is not an easy exam. You have to find the correct answer to 200 multiple choice questions within 4 hours. That’s just 1.2 minutes for each. And sometimes it looks like more than one of them are correct. In this free episode of The PM PrepCast: http://bit.ly/tv2H2g we discuss 2 concepts andRead… Read more »
Shout, a new iPhone application from Avego, allows users to arrange carpools with anyone in their list of contacts. Original post
It’s a common email mistake, but rarely at this scale. A Clipper Card worker emailed more than 1,700 cardholders but forgot to use the BCC field. Original post
Tired of listening to another person’s music on a CTA train car, a Chicago Tribune reporter asked the question: “What is that guy thinking?” Original post
We often talk about how we can empower digital entrepreneurs/developers/geeks, etc to develop the new apps to support our communities or transform our services, but like any change in culture of how we interact between councils and local people with skills, it can take time…even a generation. We have @hubmum‘s excellent “Coding for Kids” initiative,Read… Read more »
Past week was rather busy as I relocated my office; another case of changing the tires while the car is moving. It did give me time to continue to ponder how to translate business into enterprise architecture and then I.T. designs. The idea I came up with was integrating various proven models and methods intoRead… Read more »
Please join us for the full Federal Intranet Content Managers (FICM) GoToMeeting on Nov 10 at 11 am PST. Dave Hebert will be the MC and Allison Soussi-Tanani will be our coordinator. Two of our FICM Steering Committee members will kick off the meeting with talks on “personas”. Our highlighted speaker this month is NickRead… Read more »
Face it, it has happen to us all…some internet connections are spotty and they doesn’t always work when we absolutely need them to! Tell us a story about when your internet connection went out and you REALLY needed it to work; What were you doing? What were the pressures? How did it make you feel?Read… Read more »
CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL UPDATE. USAT. “Four years after Congress imposed restrictions on travel funded by outside groups, federal lawmakers are frequent fliers again, taking 415 privately funded trips between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 — a nearly 75% jump in the number of trips they took during the same period in 2010, records show.” COMPLIANCE ISSUES.Read… Read more »