By BobGourley NASA and the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy have just launched an awesome sounding Big Data challenge. Please help spread the word of this to the data science team in your agency or organization, sounds like a great way to enhance collaboration on some big issues that will help theRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here is the top cyber stories and news of the day. In response to WikiLeaks adding a paywall, Anonymous has declared war on WikiLeaks – the site is adopting similar measures to New York Times and others, preventing access “unless you tweet, share, pay, or wait.” Formerly “besties” it appears there is noRead… Read more »
Are you finishing your graduate degree within this academic year? Did you complete graduate school within the last two years? If you answered “yes” to either of these, then you are eligible to apply to the Presidential Management Fellows Program! Why you should consider applying: Rotation through several departments to give you a diverse lookRead… Read more »
Why Open Source Matters Code for America http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/world-government-summit-on-open-source Great ideas, optimism based on facts!
Gadi Ben-Yehuda It’s never too late! A little more than a year ago, I wrote “I Will Leave Facebook (But not Twitter) for Good – You Will, Too” That didn’t really happen. But! NASA is out with some tips on how government agencies can use Google+ more effectively. Or at all. The Old Silicon ValleyRead… Read more »
CEB has done a fair bit of work on the topic of workforce diversity in recent years, including a seminal study released in 2012 titled “Creating Competitive Advantage Through Workforce Diversity” (CLC-HR Member Only Access). To further support our federal members on this critical issue, CEB often leverages agency diversity statistics reported to OPM andRead… Read more »
Agencies across government are coming to grips with a stark reality – the federal workforce is relatively old. The median age of federal employees is 48. Further, workers in government have nearly double the tenure of their private sector counterparts (7.8 versus 4.2 years). These statistics conspire to create an imminent danger in the formRead… Read more »
Ever want something to become a reality in your life, but you’re not sure how to make it happen? Maybe you want to be a millionaire, or you want to travel, or maybe you’ve always wanted to be sitting around a comfortable table with a gathering of friends, eating cheese and sipping wine. No prettyRead… Read more »
By MollyJust It is widely accepted that Internet-enabled health applications have the potential to provide better information to consumers but can they play a role in changing the health system at large? Recent reporting by the Health Care Blog and Health Data Management provide some insights here. Many people believe in the power of appsRead… Read more »
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Design for GOV.UK, Moorhouse — Notes on design, technology and creativity As a designer, I’ve always placed a premium on graphic design as a key differentiator between good and bad products. Which it often is. But in the process of making a large scale agile productRead… Read more »