Space is limited to first 30 RSVPs. ELGL members receive priority registration. Interested in joining? Visit Join ELGL. RSVP: Forum with Greg Baker, Damascus City Manager Complimentary coffee and snacks will be provided. In an effort to encourage to carpooling to ELGL events, we will post a list of attendees to each event. We encourageRead… Read more »
Television news was showing how police were cracking down on DC cabbies who mischarged their fares, sirens screaming, tires squealing, “…gonna make an example!…” I laughed. I ride DC cabs and improvement by threat was only affecting the cameramen and the officials puffing up in front of them…and maybe the poor sap they were tryingRead… Read more »
Does the Spring weather make you crave new directions? Do things feel stale around your office? Do you need new ideas to solve nagging problems? Perhaps your entire team needs a dose of creative thinking. As timelines get reduced and work intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases exponentially. It is no longer enough toRead… Read more »
Originally post at Federal Communicators Network. Sign up for their newsletter! It’s free and it will make you more popular. I’d like to introduce you to someone: your agency’s Congressional Liaison. She might have any of a variety of phrases in her title, such as “Legislative Specialist” or “Intergovernmental Affairs,” but I’ll just call herRead… Read more »
As a Puerto Rican, I’m really interested in trends in mobile and internet usage among Latinos. They are remarkably high, outpacing the US population in several areas. Clearly many of these Latinos were immigrants in the not too distant past, supporting the argument to do more with mobile presented in our next blog installment onRead… Read more »
Purposes, Personas, Conversations – Practical Techniques for Everything You Create April 15, 2013 – 7:00 PM – Pittsburgh, PA One of the most important contributions of technical writing has been the realization that everything we write is part of a conversation between author and reader. And as we have all moved from paper to screen,Read… Read more »
By Bob Gourley I received the following request for help in finding a CTO in email today: DHS is recruiting for a Chief Technology Officer. This SES position reports directly to the CIO. Please see below for more information and the link to the vacancy announcement. This position serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO)Read… Read more »
By Marcus Williams This post summarizes Cleversafe’s Whitepaper “Why RAID is Dead for Big Data Storage”. You can find the paper here. Find Cleversafe on the web, here.http://info.cleversafe.com/rs/cleversafe/images/Cleversafe%20-%20Why%20RAID%20is%20Dead%20for%20Big%20Data%20Storage.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuqjMZKXonjHpfsX56u0qWKeylMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATMFhI%2FqLAzICFpZo2FFbFuWDeZJT%2B%2FNY“> IT professionals are beginning to consider different approaches to storing and maintaining terabytes of data. Digital content such as videos, audio, and images require massive amounts ofRead… Read more »
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 »
The sequester continues to affect a myriad of agencies, many of which have already been suffering from being under-funded and under-staffed. One such agency has been the National Archives. Last week, the National Archives announced significant cuts to its hours of operation. Archives I in Washington D.C. will end exhibit hours at 5:30pm instead ofRead… Read more »