People often ask me about various innovative efforts to change America’s voting rates, habits, or options. There is a ton of interesting experimentation happening here, from TurboVote to ElectNext to Americans Elect. I haven’t dug in deeply to any of these projects, but it’s clear they are offering some new thinking to a deep andRead… Read more »
The mission of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET increases awareness between builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the Cybersecurity domain, in particular the Defense Industrial Base and the Federal Government. SINET utilizes a top down –Read… Read more »
Fantastic parody on mayor Cory Booker’s success shoveling snow and saving citizens out of burning buildings – a must watch! Original post
Many professionals overlook LinkedIn as a career development and business networking tool, only using the site when they need a job. This presents a challenge when you ultimately do need a network for your job search. Rather than being able to tap a very well-established network, you have to ramp up quickly. Networking is aRead… Read more »
Not making the connection? Understandable at first glance. The theme of this year’s NAGC Communications School is “Telling America’s Stories” and many of the speakers will be doing just that — sharing their case studies, experiences and anecdotes — and showing how their agency made an impression with their audience. That usually means connecting withRead… Read more »
Right now the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is hosting a Civic Data Challenge. This challenge hopes to “turn the raw data of ‘civic health’ into beautiful, useful applications and visualizations, enabling communities to be better understood and made to thrive.” Judges, that’s me, will evaluate entries based on the quality of the analysis andRead… Read more »
Government travel and conferences will likely take a slowdown as new controls have been placed to curb spending in the wake of the GSA conference scandal. Jeffrey D. Zients, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget sent out a memo to government officials and wrote up a blog post outlining these new controlsRead… Read more »
It’s an exciting time of year…we are gearing up to welcome our next class of USG-funded international high school exchange students. Wanted to bring to your attention the importance of youth exchange and the rewarding opportunities of hosting these future leaders from around the world. This DipNote blog says it all… Posted by J. AdamRead… Read more »
YGL’s The Economy and Tomorrow’s Leaders Survey! Our country has faced difficult economic conditions during the last several years. Those recently entering the workforce have been hit especially hard. Many existing studies focus on the struggles of unemployed youth. Most of YGL’s membership are currently employed, but may have still felt the impact of theRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. BDU: Big Data – E-learning about “big data” which people keep telling me is going to be important. WP2Cloud – Interesting one for WordPress dorks (like me). Stores all your WP site stuff in Amazon’s cloud. Announcing Open Space South West #OpenSSW – Sounds likeRead… Read more »