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INPUT’s Raleigh State & Local Executive Breakfast Recap: Will North Carolina Privatize State IT?

Senior Analyst Chris Cotner recaps last week’s state and local executive breakfast in Raleigh, North Carolina. For those in attendance at INPUT’s North Carolina State and Local Executive Breakfast in Raleigh on April 15, 2011, future IT business prospects with state and local governments are certainly improved after the presentations from the CIOs in theRead… Read more »

Telecommunications in Australia Podcast

The 30 minute audio Podcast “Telecommunications in Australia”, by Keri Phillips, ABC Radio National “Rear Vision” program, is available.This puts the National Broadband Network a historical context: “Everything to do with communications in Australia has always been highly political; the National Broadband Network provides the latest evidence. Rear Vision looks at the story of communicationRead… Read more »

We Love our Feds, and So does GEICO

Geico is dedicated to serving those who serve our nation, but did you know that they also honor them? Federal employees better our country and make a difference every day, but rarely get the praise they deserve. In 1980, The GEICO Public Service Awards were established to emphasize GEICO’s belief that the contributions of manyRead… Read more »

Upcoming Event on Section 508 Testing and Remediation: Application and Best Practices

On Tuesday April 26, 2011, there is a free workshop called, “Section 508 Testing and Remediation: Application and Best Practices.” Presenters include Paul Lloyd, USDA Target Center, and Nicshan Floyd, Office of Accessible Systems and Technologies, DHS. There will be seats in the Library of Congress, Montpelier Room, Madison Building as well as a webcast.Read… Read more »

The Secret to Giving 110%

The secret is… you can’t give 110%. It’s not possible, so you can stop trying. I think the misconception comes from a false assumption that we normally operate at 100%. So when we give more than we normally do, we naturally attribute that to going above our “100%.” More accurately, we don’t regularly operate atRead… Read more »

I believe

I believe: everyone has a right to an education appropriate to their level of intelligence – some people want to learn and some people don’t, some people will learn and some people wont, some people need to learn and can’t. The latter is a damning indictment of our approach to learning. The former is aRead… Read more »

When APPS and AppStore Have Nothing to Do with APPLE – The Joy of Government Program Acronyms

Authored by Micheal Mullen Government’s long list of acronyms often comes with unintended (or perhaps intended) double meanings. While our first role is to help GovWin members find new opportunities that best suit their company’s specialties, here are a few program names that caught our eye as we were searching through the INPUT database. ForRead… Read more »