A few tips, tricks and sympathy on breaking into the security cleared workforce, from one of our contributors: So, you want to get into the clearance world? As someone who has faced this challenge the past couple of years, I do not claim to have all the answers but I have observed a number ofRead… Read more »
Guest post by Dr. Ian Clarkson Why do projects fail? Problems can manifest from anywhere on a project but there are several elements of a project that if managed poorly could mean that the project may fail to deliver: Poor sponsorship If the people at the top are not supportive this will severely hamper orRead… Read more »
The following appeared in Public Involvement Techniques: A Reader of Ten Years Experience at the Institute for Water Resources (PDF, pages 265-270), a collection of articles on public involvement from 1983, prepared by James L. Creighton, Jerome Delli Priscoli and C. Mark Dunning for the Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: TheRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Amanda White reports. Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded roughly $220 million in health insurance exchange funding to 13 states: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont. These grants will be used to further state efforts in establishing the one-stopRead… Read more »
Passengers on Amtrak’s Downeaster service have quickly adopted electronic ticketing, which was rolled out on a trial basis earlier in November. Original post
The Canadian government has shared their – somewhat lengthy – “Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0″ online. Well worth checking out if you are designing your own organisation’s policy on this stuff. Possibly related posts: What I’ve been reading ACAS’ social networking guidance What I’ve been reading Just because you can say something… WhatRead… Read more »
The government contract process is a mission that you continually need to build on.Creating a sound foundation of team-players, regulations, and business savvycan take your company a long way, but first you need to prove yourself. I have shown you how to use, “Sources Sought a s a Marketing Tool” in an earlier post, inRead… Read more »
Last week (or was it the week before?) I blogged about what I see as a big problem with the issue of global warming: contextualizing it as something “global” instead of local. When you frame something as global, it becomes nobody’s problem. When you frame it as local, it becomes everyone’s problem. I suggested weRead… Read more »
People used their mobile devices in record numbers on Black Friday. According to Mobile Marketing Watch Shoppers in the U.S. purchased nearly two and a half times as many items via eBay Mobile this Black Friday when compared to 2010. Correspondingly, PayPal Mobile announced a six-fold (516%) increase in global mobile payment volume compared toRead… Read more »
Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois. Log data traced the problem back several months to a command from an IP address in Russia that forced the pump to turn on and off repeatedly until it broke. When this news was leaked to the media from aRead… Read more »
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