In the world of training, there comes a time when the trainer feels he or she is not “on.” Is it that important? Most certainly. It can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful training. Do we fake it? Now, I’m not talking about subject matter here–not knowing what we are talking about butRead… Read more »
Social media news from the world of politics: RT @techpresident The +Newt Gingrich Google Hangout: How’d That Go? | techPresident http://bit.ly/pjVJ0V RT @politico Newt Gingrich miles ahead in Twitter primary – Emily Schultheis – POLITICO.com http://politi.co/mTY3sX RT @MarkKornblau: Not every day you get to welcome a brand new country to Twitter. Welcome @RepSouthSudan. RT @RWW:Read… Read more »
GEICO is a proud partner of GovLoop. ———————————————- I’ve posted before about GEICO Now, GEICO’s online edition of it’s GEICO Now Magazine as well as a blog. GEICO Now is an excellent resource for tips, benefits, and all the latest information from GEICO. Now our friends from GEICO want to hear from you! GEICO believesRead… Read more »
Deloitte is a proud supporter of GovLoop. ———————————————– Times certainly have changed. Our world has moved from a labor-based global economy to one dependent on the education and knowledge of those in the world-wide workforce. As a result we are seeing higher expectations put on our students in the classroom. Some of these students throughoutRead… Read more »
With so many different types of social networks now present in today’s society and Google adding yet another one to the mix, I have often wondered if it is truly fair to reference Govloop as the, “Facebook for Government.” Sure, at the time, the reference was the most clear picture that could be provided toRead… Read more »
As part of the Open Government Partnership, Transparency & Accountability Initiative recently published a new report on current best practices and the practical steps for opening government. The report details the state of the art in transparency, accountability and citizen participation across 15 areas of governance, ranging from broad categories such as access to information,Read… Read more »
Transport for London (UK) will support NFC payments on mobile phones in 2012, according to NFC World. “We are now in a position to say that if people come along with a contactless credit or debit card application on their mobile, we can accept it as an NFC payment in 2012,” Brian Dobson, manager ofRead… Read more »
IBM‘s Watson, an artificial intelligence computer system which famously defeated two all-time Jeopardy! quiz show champions, may soon go from playing games to answering questions in the workplace and call centers as IBM looks to modify the technology for business. Watson was powered by distributed computing technologies such as Apache Hadoop, which was used forRead… Read more »
We’ve just opened up our contact centre performance data at Open Kent which you can download here. We’re working with public services across the county to open up different types data. You can leave a comment on our blog to tell us what data you would like and we’ll to get it opened too. ButRead… Read more »
At some point, social media stopped being fun and started being an exercise in leverage for local government. I didn’t sign up for that. So I’m not going to. I’m going to play with Google+ like a normal person. A normal user. Because how else, ultimately, am I actually supposed to work out how we’reRead… Read more »