Tim O’Reilly’s slides from World Government Summit on Open Source
Why Open Source Matters Code for America http://www.slideshare.net/timoreilly/world-government-summit-on-open-source Great ideas, optimism based on facts!
Weekly Round-up: October 12, 2012
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 »
Beneath the Surface of Workforce Diversity
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 »
Using Phased Retirement Programs to Avoid the Retirement Tsunami
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 »
Just Do It
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 »
Can Apps Help Reform the Healthcare System?
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 »
Interesting elsewhere – 12 October 2012
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 »
Is it time to stick a fork in internal cost recovery?
“Stabby” by Amy McTigue Apologies in advance to those working in departments or agencies based on cost recovery models or whose work itself is to manage internal cost recovery processes within the public sector; what follows isn’t a discussion about you, your worth or your dedication to public service in so much as a discussionRead… Read more »
Bridge to Somewhere: Open Data in Public Policy
Yikes, two days in a row! I’ve got a piece on open data up on Tech President… If you haven’t had the chance, check out saveourbridges.com. It’s a simple but wonderful example of data journalism that shows both the effectiveness and the limits of opening up data…. Original post
Friday Meme
Panda in the office. Original post