If you’re like me, you’re still recovering from and trying to absorb and sort all the content shared during Social Media Week last week. There was so much information and so many ideas presented at each session that I found myself consistently over-stimulated, but in an exciting way. As I wait for all of theRead… Read more »
Infographics are large sized, graphic-filled images used to convey sometimes complex ideas or information. Over the last year or so they seem to have risen in popularity and have been produced and shared by a wide variety of industries. So it was only a matter of time before we started finding engineering-related infographics. The oneRead… Read more »
I’ve mapped the 222 local government Twitter accounts I track to their geographic locations around Australia (excluding NT), and it forms an interesting picture. Local government use of Twitter in Australia by tweets (excluding NT) – zoom for detail There was a direct correlation between population density and the propensity of councils to tweet. ThisRead… Read more »
Last week I was invited to speak to an audience of Canadian government executives about leading in a world of change. I’ve spoken a lot about performance and collaboration in past years, but never specifically about leadership. So this was an opportunity for me to reflect on my experiences and observations over my career inRead… Read more »
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 »