Heroes and Villains
The Six Villains of Gov 2.0 or for that matter, social media within organisations. What do the villains in the public sector look like? What do the heroes look like?
Cease Fire at the Generation Gap
When I was a PMF in 1998, I attended a week-long training in Shepardsville, W.V. along with a number of other PMFs. At that same facility, there was a group of mid-career federal employees who were also receiving training. Neither group interacted with each other except for a couple of incidents where the mid-career groupRead… Read more »
Member-of-the-Week: Sara Estes Cohen
Sara Estes Cohen Project Manager, Teracore, Inc. www.teracore.com Department of Homeland Security First Responder Communities of Practicehttps://communities.firstresponder.gov Govloop.com Gulf Coast Oil Spill Forumhttps://www.govloop.com/group/gulfcoastoilspillforum 1. What was your path to public service/current job? Born and raised in New Orleans, after college I moved home and I was living there and working as a rock and rollRead… Read more »
How do you create a culture of learning and creativity that integrates innovation into daily work?
Reply to @lindanaiman if you can help (looks like an opportunity to me). She writes a cool blog here. Her original tweet follows: @lindanaiman How do you create a #culture of #learning and #creativity that integrates #innovation into daily work? I’m looking for case studies.
Library of Congress Registers Law.gov Domain Name
Registration of the the Law.gov Internet domain name by the Library of Congress appears to be complete, according to the Law.gov domain name registration record in the WHOIS database of .gov domain names published by U.S. General Services Administration Office of Integrated Technology Services (OITS). To display the record, go to the OITS WHOIS databaseRead… Read more »
GovReads: Outcasts United
The town of Clarkston, GA never wanted to represent anything. It did not want to make an impact, be studied, written about in newspapers, visited by media, or become a hub of diversity. But Clarkston got all that and more. This small town on the outskirts of Georgia is where many families go once theyRead… Read more »
Insourcing: More Specific Guidance from OMB is Needed For Success
From The Acquisition Corner Under guidance from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), expected later this summer, agencies will need to develop a business case before launching a multi-agency contract (MAC). According to the preliminary guidance, the business cases will require agencies to address the government’s ability to leverage its buying power with theRead… Read more »
Aligning Training with Strategic Agency Results
Open Dialogue on Aligning Training with Strategic Agency Results Warren Master and Russ Linden Warren: In my recent review of Russ Linden’s new book – Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World (http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470396776.html) – I encourage public management practitioners to avail themselves of the many case illustrations and user-friendly tools the authorRead… Read more »
When Co-workers Hand You Lemons….
Is it really THAT easy to make lemonade? It’s a rainy Saturday here in Alexandria, VA. There are three very professional men from Well Home working in my house right now to make it more green and energy efficient. Well Homehttp://www.wellhome.com has been wonderful. I don’t want to digress however I do want to giveRead… Read more »
Danger in personalizing an organization?
A couple of days ago, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times wrote an article about how trendy it’s become to hate BP and CEO Tony Hayward. She was on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday to talk about the article. The parallel she brought up, and that many others have brought up in covering BP, is toRead… Read more »