Lawmakers disregarded Defense Secretary Robert Gates‘s calls for fiscal restraint on Thursday, approving a military pay raise higher than President Obama and the Pentagon requested. The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee approved a 1.9 percent pay bump for uniformed military personnel, half of a percentage point higher than Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget. The markup alsoRead… Read more »
SharePoint Saturday DC on 5/15 has lotsa Gov 2.0 sessions – Be There!
Don’t miss SharePoint Saturday DC this Saturday! So far, we are expecting 1k+ attendees & 85+ speakers & 90+ sessions. Gov 2.0 sessions include: – Making Government Collaboration Stick: Out of the box Solutions for common problems – How Social Security Administration (SSA) Deployed SharePoint Backup/Recovery Solution Leveraging DocAve – Federal Cloud SharePoint Architecture –Read… Read more »
Poll signals trouble for government oil spill response
Happy Thursday! Here’s an interesting nugget in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll regarding the BP oil spill: 45 percent of respondents think the government hasn’t done enough in response to the spill, while 43 percent say it has done enough. The numbers are a bit worse for British Petroleum: 50 percent say theRead… Read more »
Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
Eric Qualman of Socialnomics has updated his four minute video about the impact of Social Media here When I blogged about the first video, my friend Jason came barreling up the next day and said, “That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet! Can I steal it?” Steal it from YouTube? But why?Read… Read more »
Why are local govs keeping social media in a silo? Join us tonight 5/12 for #localgovchat at 9 EST
You hear over and over again that social media is supposed to help break down silos, yet after reviewing hundreds of localgov fliers, web pages and other communication materials, social media was surprisingly absent or treated as a “special feature” in the corner. “Hey look, we did it.” Why are local govs not touting theirRead… Read more »
Why are local govs keeping social media in a silo? Join us tonight 5/12 for #localgovchat at 9 EST
You hear over and over again that social media is supposed to help break down silos, yet after reviewing hundreds of localgov fliers, web pages and other communication materials, social media was surprisingly absent or treated as a “special feature” in the corner. “Hey look, we did it.” Why are local govs not touting theirRead… Read more »
Why are local govs keeping social media in a silo? Join us tonight 5/12 for #localgovchat at 9 EST
You hear over and over again that social media is supposed to help break down silos, yet after reviewing hundreds of localgov fliers, web pages and other communication materials, social media was surprisingly absent or treated as a “special feature” in the corner. “Hey look, we did it.” Why are local govs not touting theirRead… Read more »
Leadership and Disappointment
This is a repost from my blog recoveringfed.com I noticed this morning that someone reached my blog by searching on the terms “leadership and disappointment.” No doubt they found my page onLessons from a CIA Manager, where Lesson 12 quotes Ron Heifetz on his insight that leadership is disappointing your followers at a rate theyRead… Read more »
The City of Edmonton pushes the envelope with Second Life
I had the opportunity to chat with Chris Moore, CIO for the city of Edmonton, Canada. Chris and I have chatted before and it is always a pleasure. Chris is entirely focused on delivering results and is unafraid to leverage new strategies and tools to meet these goals. One of the new tools Chris isRead… Read more »
Three Sales Models
We use “models” to simplify, understand, and use situations which are too complex to directly understand and engage successfully. Models allow useful focus. The biggest problem with a model is when we forget it is just a model and think it is the reality. A model often stops working and needs to be adjusted. RealityRead… Read more »