Expected Impacts of the Affordable Care Act of 2014

by Stephanie Sullivan, Consultant The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law almost three years ago in March 2010 by President Obama with the goal of decreasing the number of uninsured Americans and reducing the overall costs of health care. ACA has been cited as one of the largest regulatory overhauls to date, andRead… Read more »

Link roundup

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Resume Review With Heather Gantz, Waldron HR

To date, we’ve had an overwhelming response to the Emerging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) network “Resume Book,” an opportunity to showcase your resume to a wide variety of employers in the region. Thank you for your interest in this unique opportunity for ELGL members. Providing opportunities like the Resume Book is consistent with ELGL’s commitmentRead… Read more »

Thursday Thoughts: 5 Elements of Meta-Leadership

I am a graduate student at George Washington University and I am fortunate enough to be taking a leadership class with a former high-level government official. My professor has served at the highest levels of government, and provides a first hand account how to lead large, complex and bureaucratic government agencies. Every Thursday I’ll postRead… Read more »

Appealing to Digital Girls (and Guys) in a Digital World

A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. Today citizens expect to interact with their government and civic organizations in drastically new ways, and many municipalities are struggling to keep up. Self-proclaimed Community Engagement Evangelist Michael Ashford of CivicPlus teaches this session to equip communications leaders with the skills and ideas they need to dealRead… Read more »

OnlineCourses.com

OnlineCourses.com is an open courseware resource, it is one of the top online courses and classes available on the web. We offer free online courses on the web to any devices of the users choice. The site is developed to be mobile optimized that will allow users to take courses anywhere. Click here.

New EPA Home Page

I’m lucky enough to lead EPA’s Office of Web Communications. I’ve written a lot about our social media efforts, but another one of our roles is to manage EPA’s home page. We redo it from time to time, and this is one of those times. Our effort started a couple of months ago with aRead… Read more »