The US Governments USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service (that’s group that recalls all of the spinach and peanut butter, well they started a twitter account and launched some “web 2.0” and RSS stuff … a great move not just to get the public informed, but to get us involved!
I was recently challenged by my boss by a revenue goal over the next three years. Revenue goals are kind of this necessary evil for those of us managers in the technology arena. We have to have them, but we don’t necessarily like them. Also, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot getRead… Read more »
It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. Stocks were mixed on Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 closing up on the day, while the small caps finished in the red – as did the I-fund after a rally in the dollar, which also helped bonds have a nice day. As much as I haveRead… Read more »
Everyone is interested in the new financial industry regualation that will be proposed and debuted this week. I intend this posting to be a primer on some of the issues which are being discussed during the week. Some of the issues being discussed on the internet include: Regulatory Arbitrage – banks and financial institutions usingRead… Read more »
Head of BBC News, Richard Sambrook, has blogged about the issues with sorting through the outpouring of tweets from Iran. He cites a list of rumours which I’ve also seen flowing around. None are yet confirmed but many have the ring of truth (or past practice) behind them. Interestingly, he doesn’t use the rumours toRead… Read more »
Was scrolling through the GovLoop member pages the other day. Not stalking…just doing a little research on how the site is being used. In poking around, I stumbled on at least half a dozen profiles of friends and colleagues that I hadn’t realized were on GovLoop. That was cool. The downer was that only aRead… Read more »
Anyone near Tucson this weekend, needs to come check out our village’s Mountain Empire Wine, Dine & Unwind http://bit.ly/12qXim! Three rural communities are crowdsourcing a great time. My sister’s cafe is having a murder mystery dinner for $30 a person that includes a four course meal, matched wines, and the mystery. http://www.cafesonoita.com I’ll be servingRead… Read more »
From Macworld.com Twitter “”twitpocalypse”” affects Mac, iPhone apps The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken at least one Twitter client application and affected another as a part of what is being called “the Twitpocalypse.” Each message on Twitter is assigned a unique identification number. On Friday evening, the number of tweets exceededRead… Read more »
Why did you join government? 57% Mission 7% Money 11% Stability 7% Benefits 18% I fell into it Be sure to catch this weeks poll.
Continuing our exercise in developing a performance management framework, a summary of the necessary steps for a successful program follows: 1. Report performance metric data on pre-defined schedule. 2. Analyze data for troubling trends or missed targets. Operationally research root cause of problems. 3. Provide corrective action for metrics where target was missed or dataRead… Read more »