Heather Krasna is the author of Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, and the Director of Career Services at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. I work with many job seekers who conduct research or do counseling, jobs which are quite hard to quantify–but there’sRead… Read more »
I’ve been going about alerting all wrong. I consider myself to be somewhat of an expert in the crisis alerting space, having built or deployed SMS, FM and satellite text and video notification systems in the past. I’ve also been fairly vocal on how their inherent limitations of cost, public adoption rate, and lack ofRead… Read more »
ResearchSocial networks are most popular Gov 2.0 tool (09/2010) – Hewlett-Packard surveyed 103 executives from federal, state and local government agencies about their use of Web 2.0 Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they used social networking tools, followed by blogs, video, government-specific networks, podcasts, wikis, syndicated feeds, and virtual worlds. http://www.slideshare.net/govloop/hp-government-it-survey-report-government-20 A community of fans,Read… Read more »
Here is a recent interview with Dan McSwain, New Media Fellow @ the FCC. I asked him questions pertaining to how the FCC monitors social media. 1. What social media channels (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) do you use in your outreach? “First, let me preface this by saying that other FCC employees than myselfRead… Read more »
Dear OCE, The CFC annual campaign is off and running! Last year, one of our own very talented artisans, David Schnare, held an auction of his beautiful pottery. We were so happy with the auction that OECA has decided to expand the idea. WHAT: Arts and Crafts Fair Members of OECA donate something you createRead… Read more »
Today at Fedtalks in Washington, the General Services Administration’s director of citizen engagement, Gwynne Kostin, talked about its new open government platform, Apps.gov NOW. Apps.gov NOW launched in beta in August but the Gov 2.0 community hasn’t heard much about it until this morning. The new platform, available at citizen.apps.go, allows federal employees to chooseRead… Read more »
If you are having trouble with a difficult co-worker, my latest podcast can help. http://leadershipconnection.net/category/podcasts/ ; or on ITunes at Podcasts, Leadership Connection
In pitching Twitter to a client, there invariably comes a point in the conversation where your client is intrigued but not yet sold. “I like the idea,” she says, “but I don’t have anything to tweet.” Sure you do! Unless your organization produces no content whatsoever, you’re no doubt already swimming in possible tweets: op-eds,Read… Read more »
At a couple of recent presentations on social media for local government, I asked the audiences of IT professionals which tools they were already using. At least 90 percent indicated they were using Twitter or Facebook, usually both. The battle for social media adoption has been won. However, adoption is just the first step, andRead… Read more »
A post from Patra Frame, HR Strategist for ClearedJobs.Net At many of the seminars I give I see people who are facing a career change and they are not at all sure how to manage it. Whether you are transitioning from the military or federal service, looking for new opportunities after years in one area,Read… Read more »