How many of us still think of IBM as that group of old-school business types that just don’t know how to keep up with the pace of business? I mean, come on, they still talk about things like mainframes, how much can they really understand? IBM invited me in for a briefing last week toRead… Read more »
Jerry Davis, the current chief information security officer at NASA, is leaving the agency to join the Department of Veterans Affairs. The move had been widely rumored for months, but was just made official when Davis accepted the offer from the VA on Friday, Federal News Radio’s Chris Dorobek has confirmed. While NASA has itsRead… Read more »
Gary Berg-Cross poses an interesting question, soliciting ideas on the top priorities for Open Government. I started to leave a comment on his blog, but found myself extending and revising my remarks, and exceeding the reasonable length for a comment. Perhaps the priority for Open Government is to aim for something beyond Openness. While theRead… Read more »
ClearedJobs.Net’s Patra Frame provides three tips for job search success: Tip # 3: Prepare your References! Figure out your references and get them briefed early in your job search. You should ask those past bosses, project managers, clients or users whose knowledge of your achievements will help you soar past other applicants to become yourRead… Read more »
Last night I attended “CrowdFlower’s Crowdsourcing Work Meetup” with Lukas Biewald, founder of CrowdFlower, Chris Callison-Burch, assistant research professor in the Computer Sciences department at John Hopkins University, and Heather Blanchard from Crisis Commons. All had really great examples of how crowd sourcing is changing the way we work and its impact on humanitarian effortsRead… Read more »
Notes From NAGW Do you want to start using social media but don’t know how to get started? Have you seen other cities and counties doing really cool stuff and wonder how they do it? Do you want to make your site accessible to everyone but aren’t sure how? Do you know that pretty soonRead… Read more »
It was a busy weekend: Jesus Diaz: NASA Astronauts Hacked by Twitter SpammersHouse Oversight and Government Reform Committee: Government 2.0 Part 1 – Federal Use of Web 2.0 Technologies Kim Patrick Kozba: Citizen networks – What can we learn from the science of epigenetics? On the Media: The Public Access Crusade of Carl MalamudSteve Ressler:Read… Read more »
The job market is tough these days, and for those individuals who find themselves in the unemployment line, you are probably looking to make yourself stand out from the crowd. I’m sure most recruiters agree that there is certain things job candidates do which indeed set them apart, but for the wrong reasons. A fewRead… Read more »
Had Kate Lundy from Australia Senate on Gov 2.0 Radio show on Sunday. They’ve done an amazing online and offline for the Gov 2.0 Taskforce where they’ve held 3 in-person meetings to get feedback combined with online at same time where they have Twitter, live-stream, Slideshare, Flickr, YouTube/Vimeo, and Facebook. She had a few lessonsRead… Read more »
Judge Dory Reiling, Ph.D., Vice President of the Amsterdam District Court, has published a new blogpost entitled Nieuw! Visie op de rechtspraak, at her blog on Mr. Online. The post comments on the report issued last month, entitled Visie op de rechtspraak, which set out a proposed vision of the future for the the administrationRead… Read more »
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