This week’s question is how federal managers can best communicate promotions on their team. Please continue to share your ideas and suggestions for the column by commenting below and by sending in your questions to the [email protected]. How do you handle promoting someone who’s best for a position based on abilities and education over someoneRead… Read more »
Geeks or g33ks leading social media way? Web site explains a new USB attachable processor for reading lights, switches and sensors while controlling motors, LEDs and speakers. Web site : http://www.arduino.cc/ Not news worthy per se for people at large. Why blog about geek toys? Its what social media can learn. They have open source,Read… Read more »
I will be brief in my plea for help on my current working project. I am making an argument in a paper that although consolidation of programs and streamlining processes might lead to fiscal efficiencies, these state and local policy efforts may also be promoting hidden fragilities and greater risks that might result in futureRead… Read more »
We recently read a great piece at Sustainable Industries about LEED for renters. This is one of the first (if not the very first) time we’ve heard of a tenant successfully, and economically, implementing enough LEED-qualifying changes to a facility to earn a rating. In this case the tenant is Adobe, and according to theRead… Read more »
Attributed to Socrates, it is a foundational rule in place for centuries and followed by many. What baggage do you bring to the table of life? We all have baggage. I have 50 years of baggage. Unfortunately we perceive “baggage” as a negative when in fact it is simply our life experiences, some good, someRead… Read more »
Financial Goal: Do Something Smart With Your TSP and IRA Accounts How To Create a Retirement Portfolio: 1. Determine how long you expect to let the money sit and grow between now and retirement (so far away…) 2. If you already have a retirement account, consider the last time you sold your investments and useRead… Read more »
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ressler the driving force behind Govloop @govloop Steve is a very engaging and talkative guy who was over from the US for a flying visit. I came across Govloop some time ago when Julia Chandler @juliac2 who had been over in America for a conference mentioned it.Read… Read more »
The recent media frenzy over the latest social media offerings introduced at SXSW last week demonstrates that collaboration is one of the app themes for 2011. This isn’t the first time collaboration software has been the “next big thing’” I remember back in the early 90’s when computer-supported work applications were all the rage (rememberRead… Read more »
CANDIDATE LOAN STORY. In Roll Call this morning. “Members of Congress have discovered another way to err on their annual financial disclosure reports.” KOCH AND POMPEO. The Post reports. “When Mike Pompeo needed funding for a Wichita aerospace company, one of the places he and his partners went for help was Koch Industries, a hometownRead… Read more »
Columnist Joseph Rose reviewed TriMet’s audible pedestrian warning system and recapped a controversy involving the system manufacturer and a local engineer. Original post