John Mahoney Appears on Federal News Radio
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TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up
Stocks struggled to find direction last week but in the end the bears won the battle as the selling on Friday led to modest losses for the week. Here are the up to date TSP fund returns through June 14. Last week’s losses took the C and S funds into negative territory for the month,Read… Read more »
Snowden Deserves Avalanche of Justice for Betraying America
Like him or loathe him, many people have strongly held views about former government contractor Edward Snowden, who spilled some of America’s most sensitive national security secrets to the world – including to our enemies. This is evidenced by various national polls, an average of which show a nation somewhat divided about Snowden. Is heRead… Read more »
What makes for a 21st century or networked councillor?
This week we ran a webchat on the What Next for Localism site in partnership with NALC, on the topic of 21st century councillors. You can read the archive via the CoverItLive widget on that site. On Monday next week, I’ll be popping down to Cambridge to take part in a morning’s round table discussionRead… Read more »
Tribute to U.S. Army on 238th Birthday; and Remembering Dad
Did you know that today marks the 238th birthday of the United States Army? Military service to America is one of the most honorable types of federal service – if not the most honorable. We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the brave and courageous Army servicemen and women nationwide and around theRead… Read more »
Some thoughts on Cleversafe
By Ryan Kamauff Today’s data repositories are growing at a huge pace. Many vendors claim to have the panacea for data woes, but using only one vendor can often result in vendor lock-in (at great cost to the agency). Cleversafe is a unique data management product that is distributed, secure, interoperable and duplication free. TheRead… Read more »
“Open Source Summit” in DC (6/25 – 6/26)
On June 25th and 26th, open source enthusiasts from over 11 federal agencies as well as private industry will convene at NYU in DC for the Open Source Summit 3.0. We’re very excited for the event and will be participating can be followed on Twitter via the hashtag #OSSDC. As the OSSummit.org site explains, “thisRead… Read more »
Death of the filesystem
From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data created or consumed on their devices. Apps are used to generate and consume contentRead… Read more »
So what was all the WWDC fuss about?
By Ryan Kamauff Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks) and iOS 7. As well, the released new versions of their MacBook Airs, they released details on aRead… Read more »
Twenty, Two, and One
We are experiencing a time of change – big change, fast change – in business, employment, markets, government. No new news here. The nature of a job has changed as well…what do you do each day now? How about this for a model: 20 sits (meetings) per month – to learn, share, sell, or get;Read… Read more »