Please visit my blog at http://ephraimfeig.wordpress.com What do you do when things are deteriorating, service delivery costs are increasing, workers are getting more pressured and frustrated, an avalanche of retirements is looming, workloads are increasing, budgets are getting squeezed, and the more you try to fix things the worse they get? What if you alsoRead… Read more »
Here is an interesting article from Dean Obeidallah posted on CNN, Are Social Media Creating the Laziest Generation? Obeidallah comments, “Observing events and then commenting about them on social media has become our national religion. We anxiously wait for the next celebrity to screw up, another politician to be caught in a sex scandal, theRead… Read more »
ABI Research reports Almost three quarters (73%) of mobile phone users (both smartphones and other types) in the United States use their phones to visit social networking sites daily, sometimes more than once each day. Other popular activities on mobile phones include Checking email (80%) Checking weather and reading news (63% each) Playing music (53%)Read… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Jeff Webster reports. The process to contract a vendor for the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) has taken another, almost inevitable, twist. A representative within LA County breached a non-disclosure agreement relative to the LA-RICS request for proposals (RFP) on May 23, 2011. This subsequently led the county to issueRead… Read more »
I originally posted this on GovWin for the release of Harry Potter, and realized a lot of this still connects to federal employees as well. For the broad information that does relate to just contractors, it will at least provide some insight from our side. As J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard franchise prepares to close withRead… Read more »
In the last blog in this series on technology and the future, I talked about how trust is moving away from large institutions. Moving right along, here’s my next point: Technology Can Lead to Greater Civility in Politics Every day, people tell me that we need to be more civil in our politics. So whatRead… Read more »
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) is launching a social media campaign intended, in part, to create a two-way dialogue with riders. After years of using Twitter almost exclusively to push out automated service updates, Metro recently created a new Twitter account (@MetroForward) that engages customers in conversation. “We’re putting the people, the toolsRead… Read more »
Just in case its customers have not yet grasped the concept, the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company created a video guide to explain the ABCs of quiet cars. As The Boston Globe explains: The video features clueless passengers, played by the company’s staff, peppering real-life train conductors with not-so-complex questions about quiet car rules: “CanRead… Read more »
This Big City tries to apply the lessons of consumer-demand services like Groupon and Living Social to transportation planning. These programs are based on the economic concept of market equilibrium, or the intersection of supply and demand. Translating this concept from consumer goods to transit services, the post asks the following: Why not take theRead… Read more »
Hi All, Thought you might be interested to know that the Emergency 2.0 Wiki Working Group have just launched the blog site and are undertaking a “Blog Launch Blitz” right this minute, to promote the wiki locally and globally to our stakeholders using social media! We’re in Brisbane, Australia with our laptops and mobile phonesRead… Read more »