The 17 Ways Microsoft Office Provides Real Impact For Better Government

Tony Tai (Redmond, WA) — Cloud computing can help governments increase productivity and improve collaboration while reducing IT costs. But which cloud productivity solution should you choose: Microsoft Office or Google Apps? Microsoft has decades of experience working with government at all levels, in over 100 countries. After weighing the options, governments from the StateRead… Read more »

Fall Telework Town Hall Meeting – September 25, 2012

Telework Exchange is a great advocate for telework. They sponsor a free telework town hall meeting in the Spring and Fall. You can register for the Fall Town Hall meeting, and get the full agenda, at https://www.teleworkexchange.com/events/town-hall-meeting/home/1706. The cool thing about this conference (besides being free for Feds) is that there are two tracks –Read… Read more »

Reputation vs. What have you done for me lately?

I recently read an article in INC. Magazine titled 9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People, by Jeff Haden, and was struck by several of his key points. In the article, which is well worth your reading, he points out a number of beliefs that will certainly set your ego-based brain thinking. A little reflection onRead… Read more »

Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

“The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers” This is a quote from a recent Fast Company article discussing how enterprise social networks behind corporate firewalls are using Klout-like tools to measure how “influential” you are withinRead… Read more »

The Art of Network Operations

As I’ve discussed in previous posts, creating a strategic network has many parallels to building a computer network. In this post we’ll discuss how to keep that network running and how to optimize it for your professional and personal benefit. Managing your strategic network is more of an art than a science, but there isRead… Read more »

Volunteering Keeps You Connected

This was originally posted at All Things Sterling. Our customer varies in procurement, but it is usually the program manager who represents the end users. Unfortunately, there’s another constituent who is easy to forget: the taxpayer. We’re in cubes, on the phone and writing analyses, but it’s easy to forget that we also serve theRead… Read more »

Should government agencies or Ministers supply content to newspapers if it will end up paywalled?

Thirty years ago if you wanted to read the news, you bought a newspaper. A paper newspaper, with real money. As a result all of a government’s announcements – media releases, Ministerial statements, advertising and other content had a price tag by default. You didn’t get to see them if you didn’t pay the paper’sRead… Read more »

Virtual Worlds Ramp up Civic Engagement

After launching a community planning effort in the virtual world of Second Life, I’ve begun to experience a few things I don’t think many of us in government would have thought possible. Like probably many of you working in government and planning, I’ve been amazed that so few people really get involved in a constructiveRead… Read more »

Instability in the Cyber Environment

Continuing where James Mulvenon left off at the the Cyber Statecraft Initiative‘s and the Cyber Conflict Studies Association‘s ”Addressing Cyber Instability” event, Greg Rattray, CEO of Delta Risk and former Commander of the Operations Group of the Air Force Information Warfare Center, spoke on “Instability in the Cyber Environment” at the Atlantic Council on JulyRead… Read more »