Lawmakers blasted the Department of Homeland Security today for not formalizing the use of protective face masks by employees working along the U.S.-Mexico border during the recent swine flu outbreak, suggesting the department has placed bureaucratic considerations ahead of the health and safety of its own workers. Homeland Security Undersecretary for Management Elaine C. DukeRead… Read more »
As you were probably aware, last week was Public Service Recognition Week. My agency here in Arizona decided to award individuals who give back to their community, and the environment. What interesting organizations they are busy volunteering their time with! One of our employees spends their off-work time volunteering as a literacy volunteer, and trainsRead… Read more »
The National Park Service has cited six men with illegal possession of park material, off-trail travel and public urination after an incident May 4 at Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. The men, all employees of a park concessionaire, left the boardwalk near the geyser and two of the men urinated into or nearRead… Read more »
New Presentation June 9, 2009, Tysons Corner, VA Dick Davies is presenting “What is Web 2.0… And Why Should You Care? – How the Internet, Web 2.0 Tools, and Open Source Management are reshaping our economy.” Presented by the Capital Technology Management Hub www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1922364 Date: Tuesday June 9th, 2009 Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Place:Read… Read more »
Paul Posner, Director of the Public Administration Program at George Mason Univ and President of the American Society of Public Administration discussed the management challenges of sending money (the stimulus funds) through the Federal to State and Local government grantinging channels. Lots of built in accountability problems requiring trust in the state or county stakeholders.Read… Read more »
On http://scotweb2.co.uk, we have been doing a series of posts on the recession, and what web2 might be able to do to help Where to start ? Written by alex stobart 9 May 2009 Categories: Uncategorized It has been over a week since the last post, and where I live has made the news forRead… Read more »
One of the interesting rubber hits the road things about social software is that it is all about the user. How do you engage them? make them productive? and leverage them? Below is some interesting insight about how in fact, with this focus on the user, that small changes can make a real difference. ThereRead… Read more »
Check out our interview on Fierce Government IT with Ed Meagher, former federal IT executive, who talks about what the government needs to do right now to make federal IT better, smarter and sharper. See www.fiercegovernmentit.com. Judi
Cross-posted from my government design blog Read Part 1 of this post here. Yesterday I made it up to the Interoperability section of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) eGovernment Interest Group Note: Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. I finished the document today, and instead of examining the remaining itemsRead… Read more »
As I move through the processes of bringing new Web 2.0 functions into production and of educating the County’s leaders on what this technology can do for them, I keep going back to our survey and compiling the results to address the next topic. At our May department head meeting I presented information about SocialRead… Read more »