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Presidential Election: Voter Guide for Feds
Pay and benefits, jobs and management, the scope and size of the U.S. Government — these are some of the major issues at stake for federal employees during this Presidential election. The next Administration will impact the entire federal workforce and the future of Uncle Sam. Both candidates have laid out starkly different visions andRead… Read more »
Australia’s e-tax service hits 20 million lodgments over 13 years – an egovernment case study
Most people under the age of 35 probably don’t remember a world without e-tax, a system developed by the Australian Tax Office to make it simpler and faster for Australians to complete their tax returns. Before e-tax was introduced in 1999 Australian taxpayers all had to do their tax by hand, or get an accountantRead… Read more »
Is voting an act of revenge?
On Friday President Obama told his supporters “Voting is the best revenge”. I participated in my first campaign by wearing buttons to the 6th grade in 1968, voted for the first time in 1976, volunteered or worked as paid staff in more than a dozen congressional, senate or presidential campaigns, paid close attention to allRead… Read more »
3 Reasons the Business Doesn’t Invite Technology to the Planning Table
Senior executives in any organization are always on the lookout for improvement opportunities and re-organizations; value chain re-engineering efforts and large-scale transformation efforts are routinely talked about and actively considered by senior management. Often these changes have enormous repercussions for the IT organization, yet it is often only after much of the path has beenRead… Read more »
Speakers at the 11th Cloud Expo: A curated list you can follow at TwitChimp
By BobGourley TwitChimp is a Twitter list management system we developed to help list curators build lists and help others gain knowledge from those lists. One of the great uses of this system is to build lists of conference speakers. This helps event attendees learn a bit about the speakers in advance (you can easilyRead… Read more »
TSP Talk
After a weather related shortened week, stocks saw some modest gains with TSP fund strength coming from the S and I funds. However, momentum may have turned bearish with Friday seeing 1% losses after Thursday’s big gains. On Friday, the October jobs report came in with a gain of 171,000 jobs, better than the 125,000Read… Read more »
Complete List of GSA Schedules
After you have isolated the proper GSA Schedule, you will want to view the list of Special Item Numbers (SIN’s) under that Schedule. SIN’s are the subcategories of a GSA Schedule. For example the Facilities Maintenance Schedule has a SIN for Electrician services and another for HVAC services, and so on. These sub-categories can helpRead… Read more »
How Right Comes From Wrong
Golf truth: Good shots come from experience. Experience comes from bad shots. I was watching a group deal with unexpected results. Their first inclination was to explain what was wrong. One guy started and everyone else piled on. It was just a made up opinion that became shared. Once they agreed, there was no pointRead… Read more »
Performance Appraisals
Why do we use performance appraisals? It seems when we use these appraisals we are knocking “hard workers” down to nothing, kind of like a form of bullying to power play. If you don’t like that employee or if the employee had to testify against upper management, they can use your appraisals against you –Read… Read more »