RIVA Staying Connected Networking & Charity Event

RIVA Solutions, Inc. (RIVA) invites you to Staying Connected at Chima in Tyson’s Corner on April 17, 2013. Mix and mingle with 150+ of your favorite government and industry partners at the Federal Contracting Networking and Charity Event of the season. When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 I 5:30-8:30 PM Where: Chima l Tyson’s Favorite WateringRead… Read more »

It’s Not About You

A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. The foundation of any good communication is a clear message that resonates with the target audience. But if a message is not clear, the story the media tells may not be the one you want to tell. Don’t miss Jennifer Miller, senior counselor of Rockford Gray LLC,Read… Read more »

3 April CTOvision Podcast with Chris Biow of MarkLogic

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Chris Biow, Federal CTO, VP of MarkLogic. MarkLogic offers a new generation database technology capable of handling any data, at any volume, in any structure. Organizations around the world rely on MarkLogic’s enterprise-grade technology to get to better decisions faster. Chris gave offered great insight into theRead… Read more »

Our regressive web

Ryan Holiday writes in Our Regressive Web: We’re regressing because we’re so focused on the new that we forgot the importance of the old. The tech press is too busy chattering about other “innovations” like retargeting, paywalls, native advertising. Except those changes are at the margins—at best. And because of that distraction or lack ofRead… Read more »

Play Ball! Hillsboro Hops GM Highlights ELGL Forum on April 17

Join ELGL for a conversation with K.L. Wombacher, Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Hillsboro Hops on April 17 at noon. The forum will be held at Ronler Acres (Station 3) Fire Station. City of Hillsboro staff will be hand to provide the City’s perspective of the new team in town. Space isRead… Read more »

Focus

I REALLY like sitting down first thing in the morning and powering through ten or twelve tasks neatly written on my three by five card. That’s a feat of traditional productivity mastery. But that doesn’t happen every morning. There’s a lot of set up to get to that point, figuring out what to do, whatRead… Read more »

How Understanding Behavior Can Improve Program Performance

How an issue is framed can strongly influence how a person responds. This insight has led to whole new fields of economics and social science called “behavioral economics” or “behavioral interventions.” Government managers, however, can use these new approaches to dramatically improve the performance of their programs, if done right. I attended a forum aRead… Read more »

Jargon Costs DC City Gov $30k

Do you know the difference between a “vote center” and a “polling place”? The DC Board of Elections assumed that residents understood the distinction, and that voters wouldn’t be confused by their confusing postcard. This postcard on the upcoming special election read: One Judiciary Square is the only vote center open for this election. LikeRead… Read more »