Love Your Heart
Give yourself the gift of a healthier heart and a healthier future with the ones you love. Check out the new CDC Features article today. Learn more about smoking and heart health and find free resources for smokers who want to quit.
Keeping Up with Social Media: Key to E-Learning Success
Even as a recent college grad, I feel out of touch with the newest and latest technology programs. My college experience wasn’t filled with iPads or interactive whiteboards, we didn’t have online classes or even Blackboard to submit our assignments. Now I’m working on a masters degree. I’m studying to get a masters in publishingRead… Read more »
Health care reform stalls out in previously supportive states
Federal health care reform is facing more hurdles, this time with states that agreed to move forward implementing requirements before a Supreme Court ruling on the law. Some lawmakers and health insurance advocates in Pennslyvania are pushing back on the state’s plan for its health insurance exchange saying that as currently written the plan skewsRead… Read more »
The Way Out of The Coffin That is Nailed Shut
I recently wrote a blog, rather unlike my usual blogs in that I told the true story of fellow worker; in this case he had no way out of his current negative job except unwanted retirement or quitting, or death. It was called simply, Finding the Way Out of a Coffin That is Nailed Shut,Read… Read more »
The Third Gate in the Pipeline: Managing Managers
Taking on a team of first line managers is a challenging transition in the leadership pipeline – although, according to Charan, Drotter and Noel, it doesn’t get a lot of attention. If you’ve been making the natural progression from managing Self to managing Others to managing Managers, then you’ve been making quite a few adjustmentsRead… Read more »
GovBytes: New Citizen Engagement Platform: An Experiment in Representation and Technology
One of the four pillars of democracy is representation. This pillar is deeply rooted in civic engagement and participation, of which officials in Stafford County, VA, fear is lacking. Many residents of Stafford County commute to Washington, D.C., and as such don’t have time for town hall meetings to have their voices heard. To remedyRead… Read more »
Coming Soon: The Re-launch of Regulations.gov
By Alex Moll, Communications Officer, eRulemaking Program Management Office Next week, the eRulemaking Program Management Office (PMO) will release the first installment in a series of website developments scheduled over the course of 2012 as part of a redesign of Regulations.gov. The substantial redesign aims to effectively re-launch Regulations.gov to meet the goals of SectionRead… Read more »
Federal CIO pushes US Agencies into Mobile Device Management
Mobile Device Management is a growing solution in both the public and private sector. The United States Chief Information Officer Steven Van Roekel launched an initiative in January to increase the adoption rate of Mobile Technologies and by the end of March a comprehensive federal mobile technologies strategy should be released. The January initiative allowedRead… Read more »
Does a leader not also follow?
What or whom does a leader follow? An interesting question posed after reading the following quote from former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” Its easy to think of this as a no-brainer of a quote coming from an elected official, but when you break itRead… Read more »
Keeping Track! The Next Scud Hits Federal Compensation
So many pieces of legislation and so little time for campaigners to come up with ways to inhibit/prohibit pay increases for Federal employees. Proposals are coming out of Washington like scud missiles but looking less like true, well-researched bills to address real concerns with Federal compensation. What’s next? Freezing promotions? Here’s an abridged list ofRead… Read more »