Last week I saw some statistics on Training. Unfortunately, these statistics summarized changes that have been taking place in the private sector. No mention of Government! … although, the statistics were intriguing nonetheless (check out the attachment). Working in state government and dealing with budget problems which many states seem to be facing, I wasRead… Read more »
Recovery.gov, a showcase government-transparency Web site that relaunched on Monday, fails to meet U.S. federal government Section 508 accessibility standards and accessibility best practices. The non-compliance issues relate to display of data tables — an essential point given the site’s promise of “Data, Data & More Data” — despite on-site compliance claims. Other elements includingRead… Read more »
Social media was placed on the back burner for a while for me. IT Division Mgr. drafted a policy on social media, and I finally had a chance to read it. A couple of time he stated that posts can be removed. Now I have to figure out how to balance the first amendment withRead… Read more »
Senators debating health-care reform legislation have unanimously approved a proposal requiring members of Congress and their staffs to obtain health insurance through new state-based purchasing exchanges set up by the health-care reform bill under consideration. Lawmakers and their staffs could no longer buy health insurance through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program beginning in 2013Read… Read more »
DC Public Safety Blog at http://media.csosa.gov/blog Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Using Social Networking to Reach the Public September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment From “Community Policing Dispatch,” August, 2009, US Department of Justice In world history there have been few fundamental shifts in how people move through society, but right now such aRead… Read more »
If you are interested in the topic of Net Neutrality I have created a new group that you are invited to join. I am not an expert on the subject but have been on the internet since 1981 as a bulletin board user, sysop, uucp connected unix user, early adopter and built a 35,000 subscriberRead… Read more »
OPM stops forecasting Retirement numbers Stories: Next gov story Federal News Radio story PERSONAL COMMENTARY Lets see, we (the government) collect data and do surveys year after year on the personal hitting the retirement roles, and for the last several years, or even possibly as long as a decade, we don’t seem to be ableRead… Read more »
Time was when a lot of government agencies, including a few I worked for, kept their records in the equivalent of an old shoebox containing a few old spiralbound notebooks left in the care of that secretary, whats-her-name, who retired four years ago… Yeah. With the advent of e-mail a few decades ago records keepingRead… Read more »
I’ve been thinking about and studying the whole “here comes everybody” phenomenon recently. And, while I’m not going to offer any definitive conclusions, I thought I would offer a mish-mash of some of my personal observations and findings: first, to see if any resonate and, second, to see what I can learn from others whoRead… Read more »
Posted by Mitch Wagner on September 22, 2009 01:06 PM in Information Week The problem with letting everybody contribute ideas to an open forum is that everybody does. White House-led open government initiatives are learning that lesson, as forums set up to let American citizens contribute suggestions for government actions are being hijacked by potheads,Read… Read more »