Red White and Blue Day is here and We love how our employees and loaned executives embrace the spirit of Red, White, and Blue Day. Here is how they showed their support for the CFC. How will you be rocking Red, White, and Blue Day to show your support of the CFC? Send us yourRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Information week reports that the FDA “issued final guidelines for mobile health apps Monday, outlining the apps that the regulations will affect and the requirements those apps must meet to achieve FDA approval.” Related: how about an implantable health data tracker? The US State Department is now on Instagram. Not even a weekRead… Read more »
It’s quite common to see people on Twitter celebrating a milestone of the number of people following them, or to urge for themselves or for some deserving cause the attention of a few more people to push them over the next threshold. That is clearly a measure of something, but it’s not completely clear what,Read… Read more »
There should be an interesting piece on ABC 7:30 tonight in the ACT looking at the relationship between the Australian Public Service and the use of social media by public servants. I was interviewed from Brisbane for the piece and know of several other ex public servants who were also interviewed or consulted. There’s alsoRead… Read more »
More than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and that number is expected to rise to 75% by 2050. It’s a sign of great success for the world’s cities, but it’s also a call to arms: cities need to modernize the way they work, and quickly. Otherwise, services and infrastructure will be overwhelmedRead… Read more »
by Steve Charles, Co-founder and Executive Vice President With the Washington Nationals now eliminated for sure from this season’s baseball playoffs, Washington the city and the market can focus fully on handicapping the possibility of a government shutdown next week. Just in case, the White House issued a memo this month on agency operations duringRead… Read more »
As we stand poised on the precipice of a government shutdown on the heels of sequestration, I think I’ve got a lot of company when I say that the last thing we need is another government shutdown. I don’t claim to fully understand every aspect of the politics behind this latest crisis. What I doRead… Read more »
As a partner in a small government consulting firm, I’ve asked myself this question several times over the last two years – especially as we prepare for the possibility of yet another government shutdown and then a debt default soon after. Will contracts stop? What do we tell employees? How do we prepare? Can weRead… Read more »
I had the marvelous opportunity yesterday to attend the Government Workforce: Learning Innovations conference hosted by the ASTD Government Community and the Public Manager. One of the first sessions that I attended dealt with mobile learning programs in government. The two speakers, Matt MacLaughlin with the U.S. Army Logistics Management College and Leo Grassi fromRead… Read more »
On September 12, 2013 I had the pleasure of speaking to both MBA and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. I was invited by professors Mary Hinesly and Amy Young to give a presentation entitled Your Digital Era Career to their Social Media and the Changing Nature of Business CommunicationRead… Read more »