So far you’ve done everything right in your job search. You’ve been pretty busy and working hard at it trying out a few of my suggestions : · Tidying up loose ends (professional email address, using latest technology-basically doing your homework) · Social Networking to reach out to others · Remembering to include offline opportunitiesRead… Read more »
Happy Labor Day, and thank you, organized labor!Benjamin Strong: Federal Employee Internet Bill of RightsIrish Times: Innovation in the city Peter Klein: Analyzing the Wikileaks DataJenifer Levini: Easier living through government transparencyAdriel Hampton: How To – Write a News Analysis of Political Use of Twitter and Other Social MediaGov 2.0 Radio: SaaS Before the CloudRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gov20Radio on Blog Talk Radio Join Gov 2.0 Radio producer Adriel Hampton for a conversation with IdeaScale co-founder Rob Hoehn. In the fourth of our series on crowdsourcing, innovation and ideation in the government and enterprise, Rob talks about how business clients are learning from the government, being SaaS beforeRead… Read more »
This ought to give you a hint of what I’m doing on Labor Day (tip of the hat to MStrawther who created this video)… Virginia Tech and Boise State play on Monday night at 8 PM EST on ESPN… in front of the nation… and I’ll be there in person… How are you celebrating LaborRead… Read more »
What if ………… My son has recently become a Call of Duty, World at War addict. For those of you not familiar with this popular game it is what is referred to as a “first person shooter” in which players collaboratively take on other players in global cyber space. The game was first released forRead… Read more »
My last post here on GovLoop stirred up quite a hornets nest and attracted all sorts of attention. Many folks offered their own horror stories while other provided excellent suggestions (like stop using IT policy as HR policy) or provided links to tools to help discuss social networking to our bosses. I work in marketingRead… Read more »
BBQ reading: Alex Howard: State CIOs rank cloud computing, green IT and social media as top emerging tech Mark Malseed and Lisa Diane: The Hatch Act and Social Media – 6 Plain Language Answers Josh van Tonder: Interviews with Open Government Innovators (video) Economist: The future of the internet: A virtual counter-revolution Ted Schadler: ITRead… Read more »
I was out in San Francisco this week and attended an event with that city’s CIO that highlighted how developers are using open government data to provide interesting and useful apps for residents– like “MomMaps” for to find clean city parks. We put together a short video with interviews with some of the presenters– definitelyRead… Read more »
We have all been there at some point in our careers; dealing with bad managers and poor leaders. Here are some signs and traits of poor leaders, so you can see around the conference table that it is just not you. 1. Incompetence – Most good leaders understand that listening to the experts who knowRead… Read more »
To the casual reader of this blog it would seem that all I ever talk about is which social media bandwagon we’re jumping on to this week – Twingly here, Facebook there, twitter over there … Now, I prefer to think of this bandwagon-hopping as ‘agile’, but there is also some method to it. TheRead… Read more »