I’ve been playing with my Google profile, at https://www.google.com/profiles/dick.davies.dc. It’s a very useful tool, providing a launching spot for two websites, DickDavies.com and SalesLabDC.com, and two blogs, Sales Lab Posts, and Through The Browser. When you start posting there doesn’t seem to be much on your blog or website, but after a couple of monthsRead… Read more »
Incidents like the TSA’s implementation of pat-downs and the Federal government’s response to the Gulf Oil Spill demonstrates that the current methods of government communication aren’t working as well as they did in the past. It used to be that citizens would get most of their information from network news shows, major national magazines andRead… Read more »
At last Thursday’s Bisnow Federal Procurement Update Dan Gordon, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy with OMB and Steve Schooner, Co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University, discussed federal procurement and how it needs to change in the current budget environment. Increase in procurement dollars Beginning in 2001 government procurement figures soaredRead… Read more »
There is a great old George Harrison song, which is titled “If you don’t know where you are going, anyroad will get you there.” Presumably, there is a corollary “if you know where you are going make sureyou pick a road that gets you there”. Moving forward without any direction appears to be the preferredmethodRead… Read more »
Twitter has long been a place where fictional characters – from Darth Vader to strange turns on comic book heroes to the characters from the space opera Firefly – have found life. Now, in a move to warm a tourism board’s heart, some of the most iconic features of San Francisco are also animated onRead… Read more »
I have previously outlined some thoughts an experiences related to Digital Divide issue s in my community and my observations and thoughts on steps the community and to an extent, the government can take to overcome these issues. I am firmly in the camp where I believe Digital Divide issues are getting worse, and somethingRead… Read more »
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org and the Law.gov movement was sworn in Thursday as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). ACUS advises the U.S. federal government on improving the federal regulatory and administrative law process, and particularly on eRulemaking and the Regulations.gov system. A recent profile highlighted Carl’s role in digitizingRead… Read more »
I receive many offers from publishers to receive complimentary copies of new project management books, project management software, etc. Normally I respectfully decline as I do not have the time to read and review the flood of books and software. I was thinking however, that it might be fun to offer these up to you,Read… Read more »
I may not be able to post here anymore. This editor is just impossible to work with. I hope you can read it because it won’t let me change the font… The breakout The S&P 500 started the week bumping up against the November high, and after testing that resistance level for a few daysRead… Read more »
Posted by Vivek Kundra on December 10, 2010 at 04:03 PM EST For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed. This summer we took a hard lookRead… Read more »