Our March speaker Tiffany Couch, has selected Friends of Hospice Southwest to receive a donation made on her behalf from ELGL. Below is more information on the organization. In 1980, a small group of dedicated individuals recognized the need to provide personal, compassionate care for the terminally ill in Southwest Washington. They set out toRead… Read more »
Peter Corbett is the founder of DC Tech Meetup – a monthly meeting of the local community of techies and startups – to encourage demonstrations of latest technology and what’s up with the entrepreneurial community. It is soundly build on open source principles – sharing and advancing good ideas. DC Tech Meetup attracts over 1,000Read… Read more »
Whenever I talk about job search, there are questions about following up after an interview. Why, when, how, how much… ‘Why?’ is easy.When you write a thank-you note to interviewers, you have another chance to impress each interviewer you talked with. When you check in after the expected decision time frame, you remind them ofRead… Read more »
One of the things that we’ve tried really hard to do over the last couple years as a company is to recruit for culture. When I say that, I mean we’ve spent a lot more time recently talking to people about: who they are what they want to do long term what kind of workRead… Read more »
Many government agencies are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM to build line of business solutions using an approach that Microsoft calls xRM. One of the challenges is to calculate the cost of such an implementation. One of the questions I am asked most frequently by clients is to estimate the cost of a software implementation project.Read… Read more »
Oftentimes, getting the job comes down to building relationships. One way I did this early on in my postal career was to seek out ways in which I could showcase other people and their talent. Late motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar was often quoted as saying, “You can get everything you want in life, if youRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley In this series of posts we are providing views on three key community-focused, virtuous collaborative venue that help the DC tech community exchange lessons learned and accomplish big goals. With this series we hope to provide insights you can use to make the most out of MeriTalk, GovLoop, and WashingtonExec. We selectedRead… Read more »
By BobGourley I am proud to be on the advisory board of Fixmo. You might think that biases me in my reporting on them. I’m a human for sure and have my own biases. But the fact is this company is knocking it out of the part in terms of both capability and value-adding partnershipsRead… Read more »
As communities across the country make more information available on-line, greater attention is being placed on making that information more understandable to the public. In particular government budgets are often reported in a format that is hard for most people to decipher and understand. The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) several years ago started aRead… Read more »
Tourism Australia has released a fascinating study of their success in using social media to raise awareness of Australia as a travel destination, including a guide to how other organisations can use similar approaches to build engagement online, espousing principles such as: Create platforms that your fans can build on Make your advocates the heroesRead… Read more »