HHS releases much-anticipated insurance exchange proposed rulemaking

Deltek Analyst Stephen Moss reports. On July 11, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released two notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) related to state health insurance exchanges. One of the NPRMs provides guidance on the establishment of the exchanges by outlining federal requirements for states that elect to establish their own exchange,Read… Read more »

Making Mobile Gov: Discuss Mobile Data & Infrastructure Standards

We are winding through the last of our challenges to Making Mobile Gov with our discussion on mobile data and infrastructure standards. Data and infrastructure standards can help agencies improve the quality and development speed of mobile products. Right now, their is no common platform to share code and other building blocks of mobile amongRead… Read more »

LinkedIn Success

Jeff Cole recommended Wayne Breitbarth’s The Power Formula For LinkedIn Success, so I read it. Took about 90 easy minutes. I have written about improving LinkedIn profiles and given some presentations, so I was interested in how Wayne would approach it. The good news he is concentrating so hard on being useful, his beliefs don’tRead… Read more »

How To Connect With People In Your Target Organizations

In my Project Management Career newsletter, one of the recurring themes I cover is targeting organizations instead of just focusing on a specific job title. In my experience, throwing applications and resumes out to job boards is the least effective approach, but unfortunately it’s all most people do. I received this response after relaying myRead… Read more »

5 tips for a supercharged procurement process

By: Gavin Bowden-Hall in Share0 “The private sector has no reason to stimulate a healthy market so truly ‘open competition’ is rarely undertaken… without adopting a best-practice procurement process, and orchestrating an open competition, how can business be sure of value for money? Or is it that ‘value’ is just measured differently, and is lessRead… Read more »

Who is at the table for the Debt Ceiling talks?

So, the President, members of Congress, the Secretary of Treasury, Chief of the Federal Reserve ( I am sure) are all sitting around the “round table” discussing our nation’s future. They are deciding what is best for you and I from our work life to our home life, someone else is making the decisions. Hmmm…Read… Read more »

The New Apple vs. PC: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Google+ Beta

I’ve been making this case from the middle ground for a while now: What we have here is an up and coming “battle” of social networking sites that will ultimately hinge on people’s personal preference, ability to be influenced by the masses, and even driven by their discontent with the competing technology. Or, to putRead… Read more »

The revolution will not be comma separated

I had a fun day yesterday at the Civil Service Fast Stream conference, which was focusing on big society type stuff. I was running a session on open government, with a concentration on open data. As a bit of fun, while we were talking I asked the members of the group to draw what occurredRead… Read more »

It’s the icing, not the cake: key lesson on open data for governments

At the 2010 GTEC conference I did a panel with David Strigel, the Program Manager of the Citywide Data Warehouse (CityDW) at the District of Columbia Government. During the introductory remarks David recounted the history of Washington DC’s journey to open data. Interestingly, that journey began not with open data, but with an internal problem.Read… Read more »

Recalculating…New app to provide real-time transit navigation

A new application, currently in development, will provide transit passengers with route updates in real time. Sounding similar to the recently released Google Maps for Android Transit Navigation feature, SMART-WAY uses the phone’s GPS system to keep track of the rider’s location and will vibrate when the destination or transfer point is coming up. UsersRead… Read more »