Follow Your Arrow

Sometimes I find myself listening to country because NPR tells me to. Sometimes I up and move across the country for a new job because my spirit animal tells me to. It’s happened before. Most times my spirit animal sounds like Pantera’s “Walk.” Occasionally it sounds like Digital Underground’s “Doowutchyalike.” This year it sounded likeRead… Read more »

Which license should government open data be released under? (CC0 vs CCBY)

An interesting article was brought to my attention by John Sheridan as below, on the use of CC0 licensing of government data. RT @digiphile: Advocates Release Best Practices for Making #opengov Data “License-Free” http://t.co/4mWWaUhsIY #opendata #cc0 #gov2au— John Sheridan (@sherro58) December 15, 2013 The article, Advocates Release Best Practices for Making Open Government Data “License-Free”,Read… Read more »

NASA Receives Clean Audit from Third-Party Company

NASA has released its Fiscal Year 2013 Agency Finance Report, which includes the agency’s third consecutive clean audit. The space agency received an unmodified opinion, which is the highest rating that can be given by an external auditor, according to a NASA statement. “2013 marks our third clean audit opinion in the last 11 yearsRead… Read more »

Disparate Conclusions

I’m always amazed (frustrated?) at how often two or more groups can investigate a situation and walk away with very different conclusions, each substantiated by “facts”. One would think in this age of data and analytics it would be ever easier to have groups come to the same or, at least, similar conclusions because, inRead… Read more »

Aphorism 98

Customers are ruthlessly horizontal Joel Bailey The post Aphorism 98 appeared first on Public Strategist. Original post

Twitter Best Practices: 11+ Tips for Tweeting Well

Summary: Targeted primarily to rookies, this guide offers a set of Twitter best practices that helps people maximize their ability to maintain a strong signal/noise ratio and avoid making mistakes that can hurt their individual professional and/or organizational brands. More experienced Tweeters – including mavens – may want to consider the advice and reconsider someRead… Read more »

Job Search Techniques from the Internet’s Favourite Pets

As most of you are aware, I’m an HR guy. So I read a lot of articles relating to recruitment and job searching techniques. Last week I came across this one on Mashable by Afifa Siddiqui titled ““Job Search Techniques from the Internet’s Favourite Pets”. Really, who doesn’t like looking at Grumpy Cat memes? IRead… Read more »

TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

Stocks pulled back last week as we hit a weak spot between the big jobs report and the typical late December Santa Clause rally. Historically, that’s typical so the question is, how much concern should we have going into this week after last week’s losses? We came into this past week following a big jobsRead… Read more »

Mobile BI for Remote Workforce Enablement

One of the imperatives for government agencies is to develop strategies to improvise service response time, reduce operational costs, increase employee productivity, and increased collaboration. In this new era, where workplaces is flooded with smart devices , tablets and employers open policy like BYOD ( Bring your own device) is common, adapting mobile enterprise strategyRead… Read more »