In the complicated web that is the federal government, mine safety concerns fall to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, which is part of the Labor Department. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis e-mailed MSHA workers Tuesday morning to thank them for their response to Monday’s deadly mine blast in West Virginia. “The last 20 hours haveRead… Read more »
Attending The Digital Signage Show in Las Vegas means a chance to learn about content at the Cooking Up Content series with Noventri. The Digital Signage Show and KioskCom 2010 has made it a priority to address the needs of organizations to develop customer engagement programs that include kiosks, digital signage and multiple digital mediaRead… Read more »
Launched April 1, Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK) unveiled a wiki to fill volunteer positions for twenty-five projects focused on technology, innovation, and all things digital. The ten-day festival is designed to promote digital literacy, drive economic (re)development and improve the interconnectedness of Washington, D.C. residents and their government. Similar to Austin, Texas’ SXSW festival (whereRead… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! A new government audit faults the federal government’s mine inspection agency for poorly retraining veteran mine safety inspectors in recent years. The watchdog report was published just days before a West Virginia mine explosion Monday that left at least 25 mine workers dead. The Mine Safety and Health Administration hired more than 350Read… Read more »
Several examples of how the URN:LEX legal identifier standard can be applied to US legal documents, have been posted on LexCraft, the wiki for sharing best practices in legal information systems development, hosted by the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School. URN:LEX is one of the legal metadata standards proposed to be usedRead… Read more »
Street-level innovations in mobile money are sparking advanced, mobile banking business plans… a catalyst for providers of banking and telecommunications to reach the remaining 3-or-so billion humans who don’t own a mobile phone (1 in 2 of us, roughly). The personal, convenient nature of mobile phones – which, according to Jan Chipchase, Nokia’s chief usabilityRead… Read more »
It was a gorgeous weekend here in the Metro Washington, DC area. We had a house full of kids hunting for Easter eggs, with adults eating traditional Uzbek rice pilaf and Russian kulichis (an Easter pastry that looks and tastes like Panetini that you see in grocery stores around Thanksgiving time). Yumm. It was aRead… Read more »
By Rick Alcantara Whether you are part of a big company or small practice, you have a story to tell – a story about your products, services, history, achievements and especially your reason for being. Your story is what makes you “you”. It transcends the deliverable. It is the essence of who and what youRead… Read more »
Are you a seasoned federal government manager trying to bring excellence to your workplace? A contractor trying to navigate an unfamiliar bureacracy? An aspiring leader who wants to change the world through federal government service? Then I know you will want to read my new Washington Post On Leadership column and blog, The Federal Coach.Read… Read more »
A slightly more graphically intensive version of this post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” In the last few months, I’ve received an increasing number of “hey Steve, how would you recommend someone get started in social media or Government 2.0?” emails, and I’ve gotten tired of sending out the same emailsRead… Read more »