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The ABC’s and 1,2,3’s of the 2009 Milblog Conference
Cross posted on Salute to Your Service (AAFES blog). A new twist from the linear note taking and purging of knowledge…other bloggers have been there and posted/tweeted that. Instead, we are giving you the ABC’s of the 2009 Milblogging Conference from this past weekend in DC, 24 and 25 April!
Calling All Efficiency Experts
President Obama stated during his weekly radio address last Saturday that he is actively soliciting ideas from federal workers at all levels for making government more efficient. Although plans are forthcoming, Government Executive has created a forum for suggestions using Google moderator. Here is the URL for submitting ideas: http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=5ad32 If you do not have,Read… Read more »
The National Dialogue: What Happens When Government Agencies Create an Illusion of Meritocracy
I have received at least 10 emails suggesting participation in “the National Dialogue”, a companion to the recovery.gov Web site designed to “discover” technology solutions to achieve transparency. Tonight I finally was able to visit the site and contributed 3 “ideas”. How frustrating. Here is why. First, let me underscore that outreach is an admirableRead… Read more »
“Sweet GovTweets” – Wed 29 April, 2009 edition
Apologies for errors in advance. Here are a few tweets from the tweet stream (have not clicked on any of the links) @wtneary: Hmm never occurred to me to put twittering as resolution in Lakewood RT @MWEditor: http://ow.ly/4ruG & http://ow.ly/4rsa #gov20 @mweditor: From teachers to business people to municipal councillors, the locals are twittering awayRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: Stimulus Oversight Chief Wants Your Ideas
A vocal cross-section of technology experts, academics, good government groups and federal employees weighed in this week on the future of Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s Web site that officials promise will eventually track every single dollar of the federal stimulus. Since the site’s late February launch, observers have raised concerns about its design, the technologiesRead… Read more »
The economics of modern day piracy
This is a link to an article I wrote recently on the economic impact of modern day piracy. http://www.helium.com/items/1414729-the-economics-of-modern-day-piracy Comments are appreciated.
GovLoop Member of the Week – Lauren Modeen
This week I was able to pick the brain of IT Queen and super active GovLooper, Lauren Modeen! She took some time to chat and I ended up with one awesome interview! Thanks Lauren! Enjoy! 1. What do you do exactly at Computech? Aha – – what do I do exactly at Computech…a solid openingRead… Read more »
Yammering away at NIST
Have you tried Yammer in your agency? Yammer is like an inside-the-firewall version of Twitter, enabling you to create a members-only social network inside your agency – instantly and for free. It operates a lot like Twitter, but with some nice extras. You can create private groups, add RSS feeds and the update field isn’tRead… Read more »
The social benefits of home ownership look more modest than they did and the economic costs much higher
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13491933 This is an argument that many of the subsidies for home ownership, such as the interest tax deduction, wind up making housing cost more – which also increases the negative consequences of a recession since a considerable amount of individual wealth is tied into housing.