Bill Vass’ No. 6 Reason to Move to Open Source
http://blogs.sun.com/BVass/entry/reason_no_6_to_move
Miscellaneous
Brown Bag Lunches
One type of event I seldom attend is the Brown Bag Lunch. Where I work, there use to be a rare brown bag lunch as part of the mentoring program or to impart information from the Health Unit. Recently, though, my workplace has taken to having presentations on work related topics during lunch hours. IRead… Read more »
Sweet GovTweets 06.25.2009
Yes, 06.25.2009 … I am running a bit behind. What with Farrah and Michael and Cap and Trade … what’s a girl to do? Oh, and I have a suggestion for our next GovLoop Project of the Week: Design a comprehensive, fool-proof way to rid my roses of Japanese Beetles … I can not tellRead… Read more »
Excellence in Government Featuring John Berry Almost Sold Out
EIG on July 20th is almost sold out with over 300 federal managers expected to see John Berry and other thought leaders discuss the impact of the new administration on agency operations. Hear insights on how to adapt to the new programs and policies while also continuing to drive performance and maintain staff loyalty. ForRead… Read more »
Sweet Gov Conference Tweets – Social Media Strategies for DoD and Government (#idga)
Social Media Strategies for DoD and Government held June 23-25, 2009 at the Hilton McClean Tyson’s Corner (IDGA = Institute for Defense and Government Advancement) Here are the Twitter-related stats for this conference followed by the Twitter stream: * 765 tweets * 49 contributors * 109.3 tweets per day * 86.8% come from “The TopRead… Read more »
Initiating a Corporate Social Media Presence – Unleash Your Inner Star Power
Social Media’s a scary animal, especially for companies or organizations that are accountable to stakeholders, policy, law or any other governing entity that exists to mitigate risk. Also, social media is an online collaboration channel and tools domain that’s most appropriately and effectively utilized by humans, i.e. individual personalities (preferably employees) – vs. corporate personasRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: Grassley Presses Obama on Watchdogs
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) this week suggested that the Obama administration is attempting to interfere with investigations conducted by government watchdogs and said he will continue to press the White House for information regarding the recent dismissal of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service. “I kind ofRead… Read more »
Scotlland Web2 activity – update
Hello everyone James Purser wrote a great update about an event in Australia. I was moved to write about ScotWeb2 which I organised on Friday June 19th. We blog here This was ScotWeb2’s second gathering. We are only 5,000,000 people so to get 60 of them into a room in mid-June is fantastis. However, unlikeRead… Read more »
Greek Amver Tanker Rescues 7 Fishermen
A Greek oil tanker participating in the Amver system was contacted by a United States Coast Guard long range surveillance aircraft and diverted to rescue seven Ecuadorian fishermen after their boat sank 170 miles off the Columbia Ecuador coast June 5, 2009. Tanker To The Rescue The tanker Andes, en route to Esmeraldas to loadRead… Read more »
IRS Nationwide Tax Forums on Twitter and FAcebook
This is is brand new. Alittle slow to the table. They are also on Linked in. Twitter: @internal revenue Facebook: IRS Nationwide Tax Forum