‘Title: Cold War Planning: Morocco 1952: Following excerpt is from my blog ‘Memoir: Cold War Planning: Morocco 1952: ‘From 1952 to 1956 I was a U. S. Air Force civilian employee at Nouasseur Air Base about 20 miles south of Casablanca in what was then French Morocco. My job was in the Logistics Plans OfficeRead… Read more »
How’s this for good timing: On a day when Washington-area commuters experienced 20-mile backups in Northern Virginia and downtown road closures due to a suspicious package, hundreds of federal managers and employees met at the Ronald Reagan building to talk about teleworking. Speaking at the Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting, Office of Personnel Management DirectorRead… Read more »
I am exploring the creation of an amputee-specific (and probably upper/lower-specific) patient/researcher portal within the DoD and VA through which patients could be informed about, help comment on and even participate in current prosthetic research. While I am particularly interested in prosthetic arms, this idea could certainly apply to the meta problem of multi-agency researchRead… Read more »
Cutting your resume down to size may be as painful as cutting off your baby toe for some…but in today’s world shorter is better It’s a fact that corporate resumes should be no longer than two pages long for people with a lifetime of experience. Remember an employer only wants to see the last tenRead… Read more »
You Don’t Need A Special Form To Answer a KSA… Each KSA should be listed on a separate piece of paper. The average length is from one full type -written page to a half a page. Be sure to list your name, job announcement number and position title at the top of each page. InRead… Read more »
Writing an Executive Summary An employer’s attention span could be limited to 30 seconds at least that’s what recruiting experts tell us. Every executive resume should have a summary that introduces the applicant and provides a quick snapshot of a job candidate’s background. A potential boss may have the perfect candidate in mind. Most likelyRead… Read more »
An essay can have a lot of intentions, but the basic structure of all type of essays will be same. You may be writing an argumentative essay to argue for a particular point of view or to may be doing a persuasive essay to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, yourRead… Read more »
I had a great day because the folks I work with listened to what I had to say about transparency and Gov 2.0. I expect they’ll be checking out GovLoop and reading this post. That will be a very fine thing. We have a great group of people looking for ways to communicate and buildRead… Read more »
UPDATE (Sept 23, 2009): We did an interview with Federal News Radio (Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris — thanks you two!) on our experience with the first @USGS Twitter Chat. Overall, our experience with the Twitter chat went well. We had a lot of retweeting of the planned chat well before it occurred which ledRead… Read more »
Originally published here While we’re still waiting with bated breath for the details of the NSW Governments Apps4NSW competition, it appears that the NSW Government has released the first Dataset for third party use. The Transport Data Exchange Programme is a programme to allow third party developers to build applications based on the Timetable andRead… Read more »