One of the most well-known narratives of the American Revolutionary War is the harsh winter suffered by General George Washington and his colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Troops were under-supplied, their uniforms were threadbare, and many suffered illness and disease from the brutal conditions. However, the American colonies generally were not starved for resources.Read… Read more »
John Lovett writes: “…most organizations are not adequately equipped to leverage the measurement technologies at their disposal for conducting data analysis and using data to drive change within their organizations. Most often, individuals struggle to deliver insights using flawed processes or via short-sighted strategies. Data remains locked within departmental silos and never gains the chanceRead… Read more »
If you tuned into the Oscars last weekend you may have noticed a familiar theme running through acceptance speeches…”thank you UNION WORKERS”. Several acceptance speeches included a direct thank you or acknowledgement of union employees. The recent budge crisis facing many states like Wisconsin and Ohio has lead to large protests in recent weeks, asRead… Read more »
One of the complaints small businesses make is Government agencies stick to bigger vendors and don’t try out new smaller companies. The reason for this, contract officers don’t like problems. If a contract gets awarded to a small vendor who proceeds to mess up the work, it means a headache and more work for theRead… Read more »
MTV’s “unplugged” is a cool way to redo a song with a natual acustic sound. What about life. Can you unplug for a weekend? Really unplug. No cell phone. No iPod. No social media or computer. Take a day off – just a day. Is this a good idea ? Many digital natives (those whoRead… Read more »
Spring is a time for hatching. And during the first week of March, several announcements were singing praise for solutions that have just come out of the oven. Two such projects have been stood up, one in Pittsburgh and one in Seattle. Meanwhile, a pair of deals were signed this week for ERP systems inRead… Read more »
To start with, I will make a confession, before I started looking at Social Media (about 2-3 years ago), I wasn’t that familiar with the fine details (or small print) of the policies and terms of conditions of service that I was always subject too. But wanting to ensure that I stayed within “the law”Read… Read more »
These questions were crowd sourced at the Gov Up on February 10, 2011. Here is what Young Government Leaders had to ask Dr. Nayak and Mr. Rothwell; and their candid remarks.
Twitter’s 140 charecters (140 CHR$) limit is more restrictive than GovLoop. It does offer one advantage – follow. Its easy to see what a person is posting. This is far more refined than the broad “Lates Activity” – which is good! Should this be added ? Does it have a place here?
Anyone on Twitter knows the game: you update your status with no more than 140 characters, including spaces and hashtags. According to Twitter data, there are around 750 tweets posted every second – that’s almost 65 million tweets per day. Getting your tweet in front of the right audience can be a bit of aRead… Read more »