Building on last week’s post (Everybody Else is Recruiting…), here are 5 hints to assessing your employer brand (a distinct: Is your agency’s website well-designed and highly-navigable? When on your agency’s website, does it take more than 10 seconds to identify the careers or jobs page? Is there an intuitive approach to the way theRead… Read more »
Congratulations! After much hard work on creating a great resume, networking, applying for jobs, and following up, you’ve been called for an interview. Job interviewing is one of the more stressful activities you can go through, so how can you be prepared to beat the competition? Here are 5 tips: 1. Use the job descriptionRead… Read more »
Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is Wednesday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Government Conference committees, meant to reconcile differences between House and Senate bills, have proved less and less useful in recent years. More often deals are being cutRead… Read more »
By Andreas Muno, SAP Over the next few weeks, this blog series will explore the reason why government should go mobile and identify strategies that have been successful. But first let’s discuss the state of government mobility. So, what are government organizations already doing? Many federal, state and local agencies in the US already provideRead… Read more »
Non profits and governments… this is how open source works: If someone is doing something that is of value to you, help make it better. There have been two great examples of this type of behaviour on this blog over the past week. On Monday, I blogged about Represent, a project by OpenNorth that seeksRead… Read more »
press release Feb. 7, 2012, 6:59 a.m. EST Sprint Partners with Orange Business Services to Extend Global M2M Reach Sprint business customers will now be able to more easily take their operations global, reduce complexity by working with a single point of contact to provide a unified, end-to-end offering for all domestic and international connectivityRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — We’re very interested in tech-savvy entrepreneurs here at Publicyte, and occasionally we’re just going to toss out what we think is a good idea for a startup affecting the public and civic sector. In the Feb. 2012 Wired, there’s a terrific interview with innovative doctor Eric Topol, a genomics professorRead… Read more »
A great series of questions came into my email inbox the other day from Shelly, who just discovered me and pmStudent. Shelly: Are these video’s for PM’s that had the schooling and are now ready to begin their career? If so, how much education would one need for your system to at it’s most helpful?Read… Read more »
NSF’s guidance on Cloud Computing will inform research dollars in the near future The National Science Foundation released their report on cloud computing. It can be found here. The intent of this report is to provide information that guides funding programs. The NSF used NIST’s guidance on cloud computing to inform their research and decisionRead… Read more »
Have you been following the latest tech news? Cloud has been the buzzword for sometime and now we are hearing about “This as a Service” and “That as a Service”. Services are great; it is why IT is here –to serve and protect. Before we start going into cloud services, what about the nuts andRead… Read more »