If you’re one of the lucky home buyers who purchased your home in 2008 and took the First Time Home Buyers Credit (technically an interest free loan), this was the first year that you had to pay it back. More than likely, if you made your first payment to the IRS this year you filedRead… Read more »
Please join us this coming Wednesday (tomorrow!) for our March Virtual Worlds for Stakeholder Engagement Working Group. This month’s meeting focuses on the subject “Orientations to Second Life.” Beth Offenbacker/PublicDecisions (Bettina Mint in SL) and Hope Kandel Gershik/Learning Times (Rye Checchinato in SL) will speak on the key elements of hosting an effective Second LifeRead… Read more »
Businesses have the opportunity to grow their revenues through government contracting. According to www.USAspending.gov, the federal government spends over $500 billion annually on goods and services. Thanks to changes in federal policy, women-owned businesses have a greater chance to win government contracts. The Women-Owned Small Business Program, recently created by the Small Business Administration (SBA),Read… Read more »
Illinois is taking steps to protect its minority communities ahead of state redistricting. A new law will protect the voting rights of racial and language minority communities in the state by making it hard to divide up groups between several districts and effectively split votes. The Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011, will allow forRead… Read more »
To achieve successful implementation of major change, a public sector organization must identify multiple Change Management Champions (CMC) to help lead the grass roots efforts for change. Ideally, CMC candidates should opt into the role. After all, forcing employees to be a CMC would appear to be antithetical to what change management is all about.Read… Read more »
This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION We have found that the best way for organizations to “boost” and then “sustain” high CRM user adoption is to develop and implement a comprehensive user adoption strategy. Most CRM failures occur when organizations take a Go-Live centric approach to CRM (on-time & on-budget deliveryRead… Read more »
I attended a session on social bicycle lead by Ryan Rzepecki founder of SoBi. Bike sharing is the new hot topic in transportation. SoBi has created a more cost effective means of deploying bike share at a cost of $1100.00 per unit compared to $5000.00 per unit of a rack system deployment. Each bike hasRead… Read more »
Stephen Whitehead, researcher at London, UK-based New Economics Foundation (nef), recently alerted me to a new paper of theirs: Connected Conversations Reflecting on nef’s decade of experience in democracy and participation, this pamphlet argues that tackling the biggest issues, from climate change to social inequality, needs to start with small conversations between friends and neighbours.Read… Read more »
Many of our clients are dealing with the challenges of managing the virtual workforce with colleagues spread out in different locations and multiple time zones. Since our inception 14 years ago, Strategic Partners has been managing a virtual workforce. What follows are 10 strategies that we have adopted to help our virtual workforce enhance theirRead… Read more »
Although this rule applies to all of us, it is particularly relevant to those who may still be in school, or are just starting their careers. For the rest of us, let me remind you, it’s not over ’til it’s over. Do you want something more from your career, in your life? To get itRead… Read more »