Who am I? (aka: Resume2.0)
I got a great idea from @JesseDee to create a resume that tells the story of your work and not just facts and dates. So here it is, my creation:Kevin R. Carter’s Resume View more presentations from elcartero.
If You Won’t Vote, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution
This article was originally published in the Huffington Post. Memo to all progressives, activists, eco-warriors and Lefty paradigm shifters: I get it, I get it. Obama is a wimp. The Senate is completely dysfunctional, and your congressperson isn’t doing nearly enough. Right. Check. Now get over yourselves and vote. I agree that the stimulus billRead… Read more »
Setting Goals for Government: Revising GPRA
Here’s a re-posting of a piece I co-authored with Jonathan Breul, Robert Shea, and Jitinder Kohli on the Center for American Progress’s “Doing What Works” website. It’s significant in that it is by senior staffers who worked on government performance issues from the Reagan, Clinton, and both Bush administrations. It explains why the Senate shouldRead… Read more »
The Federal Coach: Guiding Your Staff Through a Reorganization
In today’s column, I tackle readers’ questions including how to guide your staff through a reorganization. To read the column, please click here.
Weekly Round-up: September 17, 2010
This is what the folks at the IBM Center for the Business of Government found interesting this week. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Civic Commons launched, with a blog, a wiki, and way for governments to share apps. Pew Research’s Susannah Fox wrote about the mobile web. She writes that “six in ten Americans go online wirelessly.” LovisaRead… Read more »
Disqusing foreign policy
We’ve been playing around with commenting functionality on the Foreign Office blogs for much of the summer – trying out our old system (which, oddly, asked you to perform basic maths before commenting), with Facebook Connect and with another proprietary system. In the end, we’ve plumped for none of them – and all of them.Read… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 17, 2010
Up with participation and collaboration: Wayne Moses Burke: Transparency is Dead. Long Live Transparency. Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Becoming Citizen 2.0 – Step 2, Creator David Eaves: Collaborate – ‘Governments Don’t Do That’ Alex Howard: Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation and ‘Participation Partition’ the Newest Facet of the Digital Divide, Warns GruenRead… Read more »
What language do you speak? Talk like a Pirate Day September 19th
I am very tickled with the idea of “Talk like a Pirate Day” as it gives us all another opportunity to give rise to a variety of our voices. Many may think that talk like a pirate day is a folly, however, did you ever look at how you talk normally? No matter the industryRead… Read more »
Welcome to the World of a Job Searching Grad Student/Policy Wonk!
I’m a full time grad student in Public Policy that is beginning my final year of school. This means that I have to find a job soon. Sigh. Since I’m a health policy wonk, I’m thinking that the Government may be a good fit for me. This blog is going to document my final yearRead… Read more »
The Leadership Elephant by Adriano Pianesi and David Isaacs
Can we define what leadership is, so that when it shows up we’ll recognize it? Alas, it’s an impossible task! Such a variety of ideas exist on this subject that it seems too difficult to say something new or vaguely original about it. A quick glance at the current theories of leadership reveals a wideRead… Read more »