Metrics create data. Action creates results. Which do you need? October 9th is the next Capital Technology Management Hub featuring Sales Lab’s Rainmaker 16 LinkedIn – Your Personal Publicist – 300 seconds of pure profit. The main speaker will be Phil Smith III of Voltage Security, Inc., presenting The Payments Ecosystem Security Challenges in theRead… Read more »
How do you communicate with someone you don’t talk to? This is some more fun stuff excerpted from my book,Confessions of a Government Man. Underlying the levity, however, was a serious personnel management issue. Have any of you faced a similar situation? * * * As a division director I was just far enough fromRead… Read more »
During the 1990’s the professional political consultant emerged as a definitive player in American politics. As a young woman in this burgeoning field this was the time I first encountered the men who are now the top advisers to our nation’s leaders. We sat around tables in shabby campaign headquarters and airport restaurants discussing theRead… Read more »
Our site for NALC, What Next for Localism, is going pretty well. Quite a few ideas submitted and some conversation starting up around them and the articles published on the blog. To further development the online discussion, we’ll be hosting a live web chat on the site next Tuesday (16th October) at 1pm on theRead… Read more »
The Queensland Government has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to formally appoint a politician to a specific e-government role, with the appointment of Ray Stevens as the Assistant Minister to the Premier on e-Government. His role is to oversee the development of the QLD government’s open data site (to be at data.qld.gov.au), supported byRead… Read more »
By BobGourley If you are a Public Relations professional, thanks for what you do! We appreciate hearing from you. We have long known and worked with some of the best in the PR business and know the great ones perform a valued service to the community. Good PR professionals have been instrumental in helping usRead… Read more »
Marc Hamister is the CEO of the Hamister Group Inc., which has 748 employees and $47 million in 2011 revenues. The Hamister Group owns three assisted-living facilities and one home health-care agency in New York; as well as 10 hotels in Tennessee, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Elected officials who are the CEOs of their local governmentRead… Read more »
In an earlier post I briefly mentioned how important it is to practice visualization to succeed. Today I want to give you an example of how you can train your employees to do this. I tried this recently with five of our departing summer interns on the last days of their internships, and it wasRead… Read more »
By BobGourley OK I’ve always thought enterprise IT was cool. But now the hottest IT professionals from Silicon Valley, guys like Kirk Dunn of Cloudera, Aaron Levie of Box, Todd McKinnon of Okta and Justin Rosenstein of Asana are articulating why it is especially hot right now. These great innovators helped highlight some of theRead… Read more »
Deloittes Australia has released its Social Media Report 2012, providing much more than a glimpse into how social media is empowering their staff to connect, collaborate and solve problems, sharing wisdom, knowledge and ideas to deliver better customer outcomes. If your executive and internal communications area are still resistant to the use of social mediaRead… Read more »