Yesterday evening I went, with a number of Ontario Public Service colleagues, to a talk by Rahaf Harfoush. Rahaf was a member of U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign’s New Media Team and she was talking about “Applying Barack Obama’s Social Media Strategy to Your Brand’s Communications Needs”. Here is a summary of what sheRead… Read more »
I also started this as a thread in the E-Government group… As I dip my toe into the social media hot tub, I’ve found a community that espouses the use of open source, free applications. Things like Kubuntu or Ubuntu which are free operating systems (much like Windows) or even something as simple as OpenRead… Read more »
My agency’s spam filters are pretty good. Now the only spam I get is high-concept; to wit: A proud look in the old man’s eyes as he said angel, courage! be comforted! Be patient! But other times, and restif such repose could be thus you? Poirot took both her hands in his. So, madame, howRead… Read more »
Greetings everyone — Check out the new report that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has issued on best practices in mentoring. Effective mentoring is key to developing the future public service. Is your agency working to facilitate mentoring efforts for the government workforce?
Hi, all – We’ve been working with regulators and industry over the past several months to figure out some high value, low cost, best next moves on the nation’s food safety issues. Topmost is getting the traceback during outbreak investigations fixed – make it faster and more accurate. Our status update is here, and aRead… Read more »
Yesterday morning I attended a SRO Public Communication event put on by the Federal Consulting Group and GovDelivery. Over 120 government PA Officers and IT and Web Managers came to hear how agencies are using new digital channels and automated email alerts to better share their content with the public. We heard from a panelRead… Read more »
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article5/article5.html This article discusses the market for social software and evaluates a number of current social software vendors. Thought other’s might be interested in seeing how the social software market is shaping up.
Good morning! Today we shift away from Eye-themed humor and bring you the Red Rockers song, “China.” Why? Because the Food and Drug Administration is sending food inspectors overseas to work with importers and food safety inspectors and will open its first overseas offices today in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. Send your news tips,Read… Read more »
We are searching for something. All of us. It’s easy to sling about labels like gen y, gen x, boomers, millenials. But half of us are in the “twixt” generation: dates not exactly right for the labels. So what are we looking for? What is the quest? What will keep the twixters engaged? I thinkRead… Read more »
Just thought folks might be interested in these two posts that capture the results of this interesting challenge….one of the game designs even featured a government situation! DevLearn08: The Great (and community-powered) ILS Challenge The Great ILS Challenge 08 – Part II – The Narratives