Today’s Contribution

Television news was showing how police were cracking down on DC cabbies who mischarged their fares, sirens screaming, tires squealing, “…gonna make an example!…” I laughed. I ride DC cabs and improvement by threat was only affecting the cameramen and the officials puffing up in front of them…and maybe the poor sap they were tryingRead… Read more »

Think Creatively TODAY So Your Agency Can INNOVATE Tomorrow

Does the Spring weather make you crave new directions? Do things feel stale around your office? Do you need new ideas to solve nagging problems? Perhaps your entire team needs a dose of creative thinking. As timelines get reduced and work intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases exponentially. It is no longer enough toRead… Read more »

5 Ways to Help Your Congressional Liaison

Originally post at Federal Communicators Network. Sign up for their newsletter! It’s free and it will make you more popular. I’d like to introduce you to someone: your agency’s Congressional Liaison. She might have any of a variety of phrases in her title, such as “Legislative Specialist” or “Intergovernmental Affairs,” but I’ll just call herRead… Read more »

Immigration in the Social Age: Providing Mobile Access to Mobile People

As a Puerto Rican, I’m really interested in trends in mobile and internet usage among Latinos. They are remarkably high, outpacing the US population in several areas. Clearly many of these Latinos were immigrants in the not too distant past, supporting the argument to do more with mobile presented in our next blog installment onRead… Read more »

Ginny Redish Web Writing Presentation (Pittsburgh, PA)

Purposes, Personas, Conversations – Practical Techniques for Everything You Create April 15, 2013 – 7:00 PM – Pittsburgh, PA One of the most important contributions of technical writing has been the realization that everything we write is part of a conversation between author and reader. And as we have all moved from paper to screen,Read… Read more »

Cleversafe’s Dispersed Storage Platform vs RAID

By Marcus Williams This post summarizes Cleversafe’s Whitepaper “Why RAID is Dead for Big Data Storage”. You can find the paper here. Find Cleversafe on the web, here.http://info.cleversafe.com/rs/cleversafe/images/Cleversafe%20-%20Why%20RAID%20is%20Dead%20for%20Big%20Data%20Storage.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuqjMZKXonjHpfsX56u0qWKeylMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATMFhI%2FqLAzICFpZo2FFbFuWDeZJT%2B%2FNY“> IT professionals are beginning to consider different approaches to storing and maintaining terabytes of data. Digital content such as videos, audio, and images require massive amounts ofRead… Read more »

The Sequestration and You: How Are Cuts Affecting the Government-Citizen Relationship?

The sequester continues to affect a myriad of agencies, many of which have already been suffering from being under-funded and under-staffed. One such agency has been the National Archives. Last week, the National Archives announced significant cuts to its hours of operation. Archives I in Washington D.C. will end exhibit hours at 5:30pm instead ofRead… Read more »

Consistency is Key

I’m going to contradict myself today and talk a little bit about the importance of consistency. I know that I’ve had quite a few posts on here talking about the importance of agility and recruiting for people that can be agile. While I think the ability to respond quickly to a change in environment isRead… Read more »