Virginia Tech National Capital Region April 2, 2012 8:30-10:30 amat the VT NCR Research Building in Ballston (910 Glebe Rd) Description:In the face of the data deluge and increasingly distributed teams, prior strategies toward information infrastructure and user interfaces are clearly insufficient, even quaint. It is critical that decision and policy makers are aware ofRead… Read more »
Quite excited about this! Affordable, scalable digital engagement training for your whole organisation. Get access to over one hundred instructional videos on how to use digital tools to engage with citizens and communities. From getting started with Twitter and Facebook to publishing open data and developing a social media strategy. We offer the best valueRead… Read more »
A great discussion about pursuing a project management role on the LinkedIn group recently spurred me to put together some more in-depth information for you today. Sometimes it’s easy for me to forget that many of you may not know about the many routes available to you for landing a project management job. Believe itRead… Read more »
This is the fourth part of our series exploring a few of our interns’ views on life as a govie. Let’s be honest, these days telling people you work for the government can result in interesting and often blunt responses. When I tell people I work at the IRS, nine times out of ten, IRead… Read more »
Curation is an answer to the problem of information overload. There’s so much stuff online these days – how do you read it all? Or rather, how do you decide what’s worth your attention? A way for an individual or organisation to build a community or network digitally is to become a trusted curator –Read… Read more »
I’ve finally been able to let the cat out of the bag today and publicly announce my primary post public sector project. I have been officially appointed the Managing Director for Delib Australia (and are a shareholder too). So, effective immediately, I will be working full-time with Delib in the UK and with associates andRead… Read more »
Http://leonardSipes.Com I recently wrote Newspapers and the internet; the lessons we share. The first and second articles were based on The Story So Far, What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism from the Columbia Journalism School which may be (and probably is) the most insightful social media document of all time. This isRead… Read more »
One of my favorite projects I have the good fortune to be contributing to was created by the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (that’s DHS S&T in Beltway lingo, the equivalent of the R&D arm of the agency for the rest of us mere mortals) It’s called the HOST program (HomelandRead… Read more »
Government, by necessity and obligation, must understand the competing interests and ideologies of the variety of identity groups that it serves. Put another way, those who are in charge must always have an ear to the ground if they want to remain in charge. That being said, there is no silver bullet in terms ofRead… Read more »
(This post was written by Sheila Bapat, CfA’s Donor Relations Manager.) I recently signed up for Pivotal Labs RailsBridge workshop which takes place on March 30, though currently placed on a growing waitlist of interested folks. This workshop helps participants build a complete web application using Ruby on Rails. “By the end of the workshop,Read… Read more »