I hate to blow my own horn but all those nasty things I said about the created GSA scandal of 2012 in my GovLoop blogs and You Tube extravaganzas turned out to be true. The presidential election is long gone and there is no more political rhetoric. As predicted, the real GSA scandal took placeRead… Read more »
Hi, today I’m featuring a guest post by Gian Wild of AccessibilityOz Gian is Australia’s leading specialist in accessibility and was on the working group that designed the WCAG 2.0 guidelines that agencies must follow. Gian will be speaking at a series of free breakfast seminars at the start of April in Melbourne, Canberra andRead… Read more »
Hi, today I’m featuring a guest post by Gian Wild of AccessibilityOz Gian is Australia’s leading specialist in accessibility and was on the working group that designed the WCAG 2.0 guidelines that agencies must follow. Gian will be speaking at a series of free breakfast seminars at the start of April in Melbourne, Canberra andRead… Read more »
Now that the White House has declared its intention to improve employee engagement throughout the Federal workforce, it’s a safe bet that we’ll be hearing that term a lot more in the next few years. And it’s an even safer bet that responsibility for this initiative will be tasked out to the human resources officesRead… Read more »
How do you take what others have learned and best synthesize it and apply it to your business? Having recently found myself at a business seminar and networking opportunity, with the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, I listened to his key points about entrepreneurs and building his businesses, not only with my business in mind, but withRead… Read more »
Today’s rule, Never Stop Learning, is written by my Executive Assistant, Cindy Lee. Cindy has been with me for a little over two years. She has brought with her over 20 years of experience in a variety of office settings. She has also brought a “thirst” to know more and a desire to be aRead… Read more »
It took Kevin Reilly nearly 3 times longer than he expected to study for his Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. “I estimated 120 hours and it took me 320,” he said, in an interview with Cornelius Fichtner, host of The Project Management Podcast at www.pm-podcast.com. “I’m a pretty detail-oriented guy so I don’t think itRead… Read more »
Greetings. I submitted my entry to the current Knight Foundation News Challenge: “How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation?” My entry focuses on online public comment. It’s titled: “Online public comment should replicate traditional and legislated standards, practices and processes. Not reinvent them.” I am advocating for establishing standards, practices andRead… Read more »
There’s a multitude of great websites out there that we all secretly have bookmarked and that we find ourselves drawn to for a quick laugh or to waste away some hours of unmitigated boredom. Indeed, such sites can become the bane of our existence and an outlet for procrastination when there’s work to be done,Read… Read more »
Zeitgeist or The Spirit Of The Times, or temporary craziness, occurs in business, too. Over the past few years watching disintermediation of industry after industry has not only terminated scores of businesses, but also dramatically changed the business processes of the survivors. There are still top down organizations trying to hold off new customer-driven markets,Read… Read more »