Be recognized! Enter your best work in the National Association of Government Communicator’s 2011 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards Competition. This annual international awards program recognizes superior government communication products and those who produce them. Download the Call for Entries Early bird deadline: Dec. 9, 2011 Final deadline for entries: Jan. 20, 2012 ThisRead… Read more »
Kentucky is opening the records of cases in which child abuse or neglect resulted in a fatality or near fatality. According to a directive from Governor Steve Beshear, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) can redact personal identifying information, but, the the records of these incidents must be made public. The GovernorRead… Read more »
The burial of human remains at sea requires a marine licence. That must be one of the more arresting first lines of any government web page. Its combination of human tragedy and bureaucratic process packs a lot into eleven words. You won’t find that line, or anything else on the subject, at Directgov. That’s neitherRead… Read more »
This blog has not had a substantive post for quite a while. There’s no particular reason for that, other than that I find that the longer I haven’t written something here, the harder it feels to write anything, so the longer the gap keeps growing. So this is to break the cycle and blow theRead… Read more »
I chair and attend a lot of meetings. I attend a monthly meeting which is a huge frustration. We have an agenda, which I would rate at 25 minutes, which month after month takes over two hours. The new leader, at his first meeting said, “I’ve never seen anything like this!” After a few monthsRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Joanna Salini reports. Ohio may be the next state to employ a Blue Alert warning system. The state recently issued legislation SB258 to create a Blue Alert program and is awaiting passage by the Senate. The bill has already received support from Ohio’s Attorney General Mike DeWine. Blue Alerts function similar to AmberRead… Read more »
Image via CrunchBase Yesterday I had a conversation with a senior sales rep by the name of Dan Adams from Oculis Labs, a Carahsoft partner. He was showing me a demonstration of the latest update of their software Private Eye Version 3.3. I was interested in this because I blogged about Private Eye over theRead… Read more »
Have you ever sent a tweet and soon realized it was questionable then quickly hit the delete button? So have lots of others, and depending on your web 2.0 popularity, deletion doesn’t mean all is forgiven— just ask former representative Anthony Weiner. For many of us, this mistake is easily resolvable, but for government agenciesRead… Read more »
Happy Friday! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I went to NYC and saw the birthplace of the Occupy Movement, it was pretty interesting to see the people who were still there – since Mayor Bloomberg no longer allows them to camp out. I also saw the parade – it made me feel pretty old,Read… Read more »
Happy Friday everyone! The last time we checked in with the GEICO Gecko he was hanging out in Brooklyn. Well, since then he’s traveled a long way! Where has he found himself? Check out this week’s GEICO Friday Fun Video to find out! Shake it Gecko! ——————————— GEICO was created in 1936 to provide autoRead… Read more »