Last Friday was the Social Media Forum#DCCSMF. It was very well attended with over 70 people from across the council and partner organisations. It went very well, a few technical and timing issues but nothing major. Everyone wants more but better next time…so an interesting challenge. Even the Head of our Press Office attended andRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Joanna Salini reports. Surveillance is one of the more popular techniques used by state and local government entities to combat crime. Surveillance systems are often successful in preventing criminal activity, whether they run from computers, telephones, aerial imagery, or more commonly, video cameras and closed-circuit television cameras. CCTV cameras have become extremely usefulRead… Read more »
We’ve all grown up in a time when to do anything on the web is to be disruptive. Writing? On the web? Disruptive. Finding a date? On the web? Disruptive. It’s been going on for so long that we sort of think the web is disruptive, just by virtue of its DNA. Anything + webRead… Read more »
One advantage of posting to the internet is the huge audience. Somebody seems to find value in most anything. What you post is how you are experienced, your electronic personality. A second advantage is the ability to comment, to add to the discussion. Commenting is a developed skill, a habit. You get better the moreRead… Read more »
I’m excited to announce the Open Forum Foundation’s very first official publication: A Guide to Owning Transparency How Federal Agencies can Implement and Benefit from Transparency [Get it here] This work is based on the in-person discussions hosted during the Focus Forum Owning Transparency: People, Processes, and Technology at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)Read… Read more »
Do you have a car? Do you want it to make money for you, and help the environment at the same time? If so, a new car sharing model may be for you. General Motors and RelayRides are joining together to create a new car sharing system that allows car owners to make their vehiclesRead… Read more »
Academics sometimes hit the nail on the head! University of Wisconsin professor Donald Moynihan, a thoughtful observer of the evolution of performance management in the U.S, along with colleague Stephane Lavertu from Ohio State, examine historical GAO survey data to understand why recent federal performance improvement initiatives haven’t resulted in the hoped-for increase use ofRead… Read more »
Answer: All of them served in the US military, and their records will be on view in the new National Archives branch, the National Personnel Records Center, on Saturday in St. Louis. The new museum contains over 100 million military and civilian personnel records. The building has state of the art preservation facilities, and visitorsRead… Read more »
Just after I posted “Business Process Management As If People Mattered: Adaptive Case Management” the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review downloaded to my Color Nook. This was a special issue devoted to talent management and so I flipped through it pretty quickly until I came across “Lean Knowledge Work” (Staats and Upton, OctoberRead… Read more »
Started reviewing my notes from deep dives I conducted at SharePoint 2011 conference last week. As I focused on the data I continue to brainstorm about revising the SharePoint ISV Partner Ecosystem Taxonomy. While the current framework matches the SharePoint 2010 Wheel, the categorizations distort the core capabilities of many of the ISVs. The Framework’sRead… Read more »