To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, military theorist John Boyd can’t get no respect. The latest attack on the Loopy One, published in Armed Forces Journal, again mischaracterizes the OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide Act) Loop: This notion that there are specific knowable causes that are linked to corresponding effects dominates military thinking and manifests in our drive to gatherRead… Read more »
Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law has posted The MetaLex Document Server, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Hoekstra describes the technology of the MetaLex Document Server, a new service that provides free public access toRead… Read more »
Yesterday, I lead a Webinar for GSA’s Web Manager’s University in which I covered the basics of Twitter of Facebook. Alice Lipowicz of Federal Computer Week was in attendance and wrote a synopsis of the session, which itself sparked a conversation between myself, Ari Herzog, Alex Howard, and a few others on Twitter. There wereRead… Read more »
OMB Creates New Grants Policy Council The Office of Management and Budget has just created a new Council on Financial Assistance Reform to ”foster more efficient and effective federal financial management.” Read the full post from Management Concepts Grants Blog
Back in April, President Obama issued an executive order directing agencies to step up their efforts to improve customer service. Whatever happened? The Executive Order gave agencies until the last week of October to provide their plans to the Office of Management and Budget, and last week the plans were delivered and posted on OMB’sRead… Read more »
Photo credits Apple.com If the iPhone 4S is your first iPhone, you have probably already realized how awesome it is and wondered to your self, “Why did I wait so long?” If you upgraded to the new iPhone from a previous model you are enjoying the added feature of Siri, the faster processor, and theRead… Read more »
ResearchTricks of the social media trade(10/26/2011) – A NewForeSeestudy Social Media Best Practices for the Federal government analyzes the state of social media in the federal government. Tips for boosting social media presence include the use of the Twitter “favorite” feature content and the use of playlists to organize videos on YouTube. The Tablet Revolution(10/25/2011)Read… Read more »
New data from comScore shows that not only are people checking their social networks (like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) from their phones, but they are actively engaging. In addition to reading posts, people are using their phones to add their own updates, post links and follow links to other content. Mobile Social Networking Activities 3Read… Read more »
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Friends, As you may know my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer last February, he has since undergone surgery and to the best of our family’s knowledge he is currently cancer free. But we are never really free from the cancer are we? Fear, worry, reminders of what it has done – or worse whatRead… Read more »