Depends on “Whose Life It Is Anyway” and Trainers Can Help

For some patients, it’s Hell and they’d rather be dead, and I was one of them. “Whose Life Is It Anyway,” is the title of a play by Brian Clark that I lifted from him with more information from good old Wikipedia complete with links to other respective sites. I remember the movie made fromRead… Read more »

Cisco Webinar: Defending the Data Center

Cisco and IDG have sponsored this post and asked that we spread the word on this event which should be of interest to anyone in the enterprise IT business. Cisco is one of the firms we should all track closely and this is a great opportunity to learn the full array of their solutions forRead… Read more »

Only A Few Are Champions

Rick ‘Doc’ Walker was the keynote speaker at a recent Comcast event I attended at Redskins’ FedEx Field. Fans may remember Walker as one the HOGS, or more recently as a champion for research and cure of Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, Alzheimer’s, and Arthritis (he does an ESPN 980 radio show “2-4 weekdays” as heRead… Read more »

Federal Technology Experts to Follow on Twitter

CTOvision was once again named one of the top sources for government technology news and analysis. Fed Tech Magazine just published it’s list of “46 Federal Technology Experts to Follow on Twitter” which it later updated to include a 47th member, features CTOvision’s Twitter account, which you can follow for our CTO feed for theRead… Read more »

New Understanding of Disaster Preparedness & Recovery in Mississippi

Following Hurricane Katrina, then-Governor Haley Barbour created the state’s Disaster Recovery Division and appointed Jon Mabry as its chief operations officer. Many lessons have been learned in the recovery process in the 7 years since Katrina directly affected some one million Mississippians, nearly one-third of the state’s population. In a recent interview with Emergency ManagementRead… Read more »

Managing Diets

This post is cross-posted at Routeam.com. The Federal Government traditionally does not concern itself with the health and diets of its employees. This is changing here and there, but it is still not a part of the work culture in the way that it is in many leading private companies. I think that needs toRead… Read more »

New contest: can you describe a new start-up (or organization) without using ANY of these words?

I originally wrote this blog post because I have noticed, as the federal government has gotten more “startuppy,” the language in the articles covering Startup Gov enterprises has started to get more buzzwordtistic, more tech startup delirious. To the detriment of sense. We can stop this, people. We can, and we should, because at aRead… Read more »

FEMA’s National Preparedness Coalition

Dear past National Preparedness Month member: As you know, September is National Preparedness Month and FEMA invites you to again pledge to prepare by joining the National Preparedness Coalition. The 2012 National Preparedness Coalition Online Community is the largest community yet, with over 15,500 members connecting and collaborating on emergency preparedness. Members are empowering themselvesRead… Read more »

5 Tips for Job Seekers: What Recruiters Don’t Want You to Know

As originally seen on Exaqueo. As a talent strategy consultant and career coach, I tell clients all the time: “I get the other side of the equation.” Companies like that I am coaching job seekers, and job seekers like that I consult with talent acquisition teams at companies. Having a foot in both worlds meansRead… Read more »

Calling in Cyber Strikes, “Reckless” Cyber Attacks Against the US, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Debora Plunkett, head of the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate, accused other nations of launching “reckless” cyber attacks against the United States without “any sense of restraint.” More here. Nearly 3,000 donors were fooled into giving over $570,000 to a network of look-alike campaign websitesRead… Read more »