Click to view slideshow.AFGE’s Hispanic Coalition (HISCO) held its fourth annual conference earlier this month in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year’s conference was themed “Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future” and featured a tribute to the original group of pioneers who established the AFGE Latino advocacy group. Conference attendees participated in a “political fiesta” toRead… Read more »
Sometimes in life, it’s hard to know how you’re doing. The measurement may not be clear, people may not give you any feedback, and the goal itself may be fuzzy. However, in supervision there is one way to keep really good track of how you’re doing in the eyes of those you supervise. I learnedRead… Read more »
This blog is the Part II of a two part series on the award-winning government website, AustinTexas.gov. Visit the first installment to get a full picture of how the city’s website has been so successful. Chris Florance, the Web Content Manager for the City of Austin, Texas, spoke on the DorobekINSIDER about the newly designedRead… Read more »
I‘m seeking comments on my updated and expanded white paper “A Framework for Transparency Program Planning and Assessment.” It’s located here: http://www.ddmcd.com/outline.html My focus is primarily on understanding how improved transparency and openness can impact the individuals and groups targeted by government programs. I know that much attention on program transparency in recent years hasRead… Read more »
Apologies for the lack of posting lately on here. The reason for this quietness can be seen in this set on Flickr. Anyway, my friends at Clinked – who make a rather good online collaboration and project management platform – have produced an interesting infographic on the state of online collaboration. I’ve pasted it inRead… Read more »
We have developed a new application for visualising data in 3D called Datascape that can be used by to spot patterns, trends, links and behaviours between disparate data sets. Data can be imported from almost any source including spreadsheets and databases or even taken from live feeds – with complete flexibility about how you map,Read… Read more »
The results of a Data Visualisation and Visual Analytics Survey have been released by Daden Limited (Daden). Daden created this survey as part of the development of their new ground-breaking data visualisation tool, Datascape. The aim was to understand what applications analysts were already using, what they did and didn’t like about them and whatRead… Read more »
23-year-old Mayor Alex Morse of Holyoke, Massachusetts delivered a powerful presentation at the Next Generation of Government Summit this past July. I’d like to break it down, and analyze what I think made it so effective. The speech in its entirety can be viewed here: Audience and Theme Mayor Morse is speaking at an innovativeRead… Read more »
By KyleLagunas Over the last few years, social and mobile technologies have proven to be powerful tools for sourcing and recruiting talent. More recently, we’re beginning to see consumer tech–social, in particular–being leveraged in other HR functions. But while research shows these next generation tools have the potential to improve communication and collaboration across theRead… Read more »
I thought this infographic from the US on enterprise social networking from Tibbr, released in July 2012, was worth sharing. Particularly notable was how high an adopter of these types of tools was government (‘Public Administration’) at 74%, which closely reflects the share of Australian Government agencies I’ve tracked as now using social media officiallyRead… Read more »