We’re thrilled to have two great NCDD members serving as our conference Emcees for NCDD Seattle: John Gastil and Susanna Haas Lyons. They’ll be providing you with familiar, friendly faces throughout the event, introducing presenters, making announcements and helping us transition between activities. John Gastil is the Head of the Department of Communication Arts andRead… Read more »
NCDD has been involved in a great project called Participedia.net for the past couple of years. Participedia is a new online repository for detailed case studies on democratic innovation and public engagement. Here’s a letter from Participedia director Pat Scully extending an invitation to session leaders at NCDD Seattle to contribute their stories and casesRead… Read more »
Each year, our organization hires a group of recent college graduates into our human resources intern program. The interns spend the next two years traveling throughout the Department learning the ins and outs of processing HR actions, the culture and a bit about themselves. The program culminates with graduation and an honest Q&A session withRead… Read more »
A classic post for me is titled“Silence — One of the Two Great Wastes™”. The article cites a few sources that conclude: “…that project deterioration was a function of not listening and not speaking. We named those behaviors the Two Great Wastes.” I love the term quoted in the post, “organizational silence” to describe whenRead… Read more »
One of our extraordinary conference planning team members, John Spady (pictured), is organizing an effort to record audio from all our NCDD Seattle conference workshops. Can you help? If you’re willing to record all the workshops you’re attending, you may get a very cool recording device for your iPhone in the bargain. Basically, John isRead… Read more »
Welcome to column number two of Dating Management. Let’s pick up where we left off last week and assume you’ve convinced Stressful Sue and Irksome Isaac, your high-performering employees whose lack of a love life has left them irritating you and your office, to join an online dating site. Now what? What do you tellRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff The top tech news and stories from October 3, 2012. HP has outlined their 5-year recovery plan, while the stock plummets – HP’s stock dropped 10% today to sit at 9-year low. With the loss of any viable mobile game, and a management team that seems to have no idea where the marketRead… Read more »
Join The Coalition for Government Procurement on October 24 and 25 for a two day Fall Training Conference—Continuing the Dialogue. The training will focus on understanding acquisition policy and the Federal Market. Hear how sequestration, declining budgets and strategic sourcing may affect what the government buys and how they buy it. Dialogue will be focusedRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff We just received details on the 6th Annual Oracle Federal Forum, Wednesday, 14 November 2012. It will be held at the Wardman Park Marriott, 2660 Woodley Road NW. Located right above the Woodley Park Metro, and with valet parking, it is an easy destination. At this conference expect to hear from; “Government speakers,Read… Read more »
By BobGourley The TechAmerica Foundation is a non-profit (501c3), non-partisan resource and voice for the US technology industry. They have a tremendous reputation for encouraging industry-wide collaboration and for disseminating concepts, ideas and well researched policy proposals on topics such as US competitiveness in a global economy, innovation in the nation and in government, andRead… Read more »