Maryland has chosen Tyler Technologies to integrate its court management system using the Odyssey(R) solution. The Odyssey court management system will integrate managing and reporting court information in order to help the state meet its Maryland Electronic Court (MDEC) goals. The state court system is working to upgrade and streamline many of its legacy systems.Read… Read more »
Jina Gaines of the City of Virginia Beach is doing some research into how government communications departments are structured. Her questions are below. Which communications structure does your organization subscribe to (centralized vs. decentralized)? By centralized I mean there is coordinated messaging from a department of communication/public affairs office and within that department/office there areRead… Read more »
Chris Lu is assistant to the president and White House Cabinet Secretary. Prior to serving in the White House, he worked for then-Senator Obama as legislative director and acting chief of staff, and consequently served as executive director of the presidential transition. He previously worked as deputy chief counsel for a House committee and asRead… Read more »
Take a look at career articles and the topic of “questions everyone hates” comes up regularly. So, of course, you can learn a lot about how to answer many difficult questions with a fast search. Here are some which I get asked about regularly at job fairs and seminars. Question 1: What are your weaknesses?Read… Read more »
Núria Casellas, Joan-Josep Vallbé, and Thomas R. Bruce — a member of our community — all of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, will present a paper entitled From Legal Information to Open Legal Data: A Case Study in U.S. Federal Legal Information, at OGK 2011: The AAAI Fall Symposium on OpenRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. This article is a continuation of the good news budget analysis series covering specific justice and public safety (JPS) state opportunities. As illustrated in a previous article, here, GovWin developed a set of statistical projection models to examine future state budget trends in the JPS vertical. In brief, stateRead… Read more »
The PMP Exam is not an easy exam. You have to find the correct answer to 200 multiple choice questions within 4 hours. That’s just 1.2 minutes for each. And sometimes it looks like more than one of them are correct. In this free episode of The PM PrepCast: http://bit.ly/tv2H2g we discuss 2 concepts andRead… Read more »
Interview with Terry Johnson, Director, GoElectricDrive, Electric Drive Transportation Association In Episode 23 of the Green Government Podcast we’re chatting with Terry Johnson, Director of GoElectricDrive at the Electric Drive Transportation Association. Terry has extensive experience in government, business and the non-profit sector and will be talking with us today about the importance of electricRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. The 2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference was held October 17-21 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was almost exclusively IT-based and focused on strategies to leverage IT solutions and systems software, and technology to improve the higher education learning experience. Judging by the more thanRead… Read more »
Amanda would be well advised not to make a career in government because Congress wants to eliminate the FERS retirement system and reduce it to just a 401 k plan and social security… Furthermore, the super committee in Congress appears to be failing in its mission of reducing the debt and deficit. So, if thingsRead… Read more »