Interview on open source in health care IT with Fred Trotter
On O’Reilly Radar: Fred Trotter gives a history of open source inhealth IT and explains how open source–and even more, open data–iscrucial: http://oreil.ly/cGXmRq
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How-To: Use Hashtags
The obvious definition of a hashtag is a word or combination of words, preceded by the hash sign (#) more commonly known as the pound sign on your phone. The practical definition is that hashtags are identifiers used on microblogging sites such as twitter to link a post to a particular subject. This allows otherRead… Read more »
More Online Training – You Asked. We Listened.
We’re always hearing from our customers that they need more lead time to know the classes that we’ll be offering, especially because many agencies require employees to put in their training requests for the next fiscal year sometime in the summer. So I’m excited that for the first time Web Manager University will be announcingRead… Read more »
Chatting with Carol Spencer, Web Manager for Morris County, New Jersey
This past weekend I was listening to Government 2.0 Radio and the guest was Carol Spencer, Web Manager for Morris County, New Jersey. Carol brings some truly unique insights to this role based upon her past roles as an elected official and multiple years spent in Marketing at IBM. I followed up with Carol afterRead… Read more »
Decide the Future of AllThingsSterling – WordPress vs Posterous
I love Posterous. I really do. It’s very user friendly compared to my hosted WordPress blog. Plus I can post via email from Posterous. WP can too….but it’s a real pain to set up. Oh yeah plus WP plugins break my blog. (A lot.) But I don’t want to lose SEO by switching. Need advice.Read… Read more »
Working for Government is an Endurance Sport
There is a policy at work I don’t agree with, and yesterday I poked my boss (again) to remind him that it doesn’t align with the direction that’s been set out for our organization. I asked him how I could help change it. He said I could be patient. I’ve been told to be patientRead… Read more »
Creating a Culture of Customer Service – “And Would You Like Catsup for Your Fries?”
Last week, a friend told me about a presentation she’d just done for some local elected officials, on making government websites customer-friendly. She said the session had gone really well – they got it. But this is what caught my attention. She said some of these government officials had never thought about their websites inRead… Read more »
Agile Software Development Team Available for Immediate Contracts
For the past six years our team of experts has worked tirelessly producing cutting-edge, custom software solutions, for the federal government. We can make your dream application a reality too! Most of our team members have current TS or TS/SCI security clearances, so we can be entrusted with your confidential information and technology. Located wellRead… Read more »
Counties’ Fear of Social Media…But Need Not Be
In a word…fear. That about sums up most local government leaders and their thoughts about the use of social media. As the government with the closest proximity to the public it serves, a lot of my peers worry about opening up another dialogue venue. Many aren’t familiar with social media sites and can’t envision whatRead… Read more »
Business Intelligence software recommendations and horror stories?
I work on a data warehouse and my city’s main anti-poverty agency. The data warehouse has been around since 2000. We have roughly 150 users across the agency writing their own ad hoc queries each month, many of them using Oracle Discoverer. (We also have about 250 other users running canned reports each month, butRead… Read more »