Since ELGL is not a big fan of icebreakers and since we would rather not know what animal you want to be, this blog feature will serve as a means of introducing new members. While you won’t learn about their favorite animal, you will learn about their ideal Sunday morning, which dead people would theyRead… Read more »
Meeting agenda: Perspectives on Public Safety Location: Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office Public Safety Training Center (PSTC) at 12700 SE 82nd Avenue Clackamas, OR 97015. Interested in joining? Visit Join ELGL. RSVP: Perspectives on Public Safety with Clackamas County, Lake Oswego, and Milwaukie In an effort to encourage to carpooling to ELGL events, we will postRead… Read more »
Next 10 creates a fun budget tool that allows you to try to reduce the federal budget deficit. The Federal Budget Challenge is a fun learning exercise that converts the user into a policymaker working to reduce the federal budget deficit. The goal is to reduce the amount of annual deficits over the next 10Read… Read more »
Yesterday, I talked about what I thought was the real story that got missed in the fanfare surrounding the relaunch of data.gc.ca. Today I’ll talk about the new data.gc.ca itself. Before I begin, there is an important disclaimer to share (to be open!). Earlier this year Treasury Board asked me to chair five public consultationsRead… Read more »
This is a story of coming around full circle. I was born here in San Francisco, in the midst of the technology industry, to a father who was an engineer in Silicon Valley long before the regional nickname was a household brand. In high school, we were one of the first households amongst my friendsRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Hadoop World is coming! If your organization uses information and if you play a role in collecting, moving, storing security and/or analyzing it, come interact with your peers from other information intensive organizations and learn cutting edge concepts for enhancing your ability to sense make over data. Sign up now at: http://ctolink.us/19jtxZeRead… Read more »
I think that performance management and performance management systems should be leveraged by organizations to spur higher performing actions and activities as opposed to just using them as sort of a rear view mirror to understand how you did. I think there are probably many ways to do it but I want to talk aRead… Read more »
Municipal outreach What your website says about you Jun. 18, 2013 Derek Prall | American City and County What does Twitter have to do with a town hall meeting? According to communications specialists for municipal governments, more than you would think. Social media may not be the primary force behind local governments in the digitalRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Federal Agency Demands, Competition Challenge Cloud Vendors – After IBM protested the CIA’s cloud services award to Amazon Web Services, the GAO has found key deficiencies. Apparently, the CIA “failed to evaluate prices comparably under one of the contract’s pricing scenarios[.]”Read… Read more »
Updated: This article was originally posted by Dan Chenok at the IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on June 18 entitled “Reinventing Government”. Several leaders with great experience in Federal government leadership and management issues presented testimony and engaged in an extensive discussionRead… Read more »