A message from NAGC President-Elect John Verrico As we begin 2013, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all members of the National Association of Government Communicators – and those government communicators who are still pondering about joining us – a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Government communicators faced some significant challenges inRead… Read more »
On December 17th (three days after the Newtown tragedy), NCDD launched a collaborative workspace on Hackpad to help the dialogue and deliberation community think through how we might respond — both individually and collectively — to the shooting and all it surfaced. There has been a lot of activity on the Hackpad site at www.bit.ly/natdial,Read… Read more »
By BobGourley If you are fielding enterprise-grade data solutions in the federal space, especially in the national security components of government, please consider attending this Big Data event. Friends at Cloudera are lead sponsors and coordinators of a new Big Data Forum focused on Apache Hadoop. The first, which will be held 30 January 2013Read… Read more »
Many students I talk to do not realize the huge opportunity they have with respect to government health administration careers. In fact, the Veterans Health Administration has an annual budget of $46 billion and nearly 300,000 employees. Obviously a huge portion of the government. Nevertheless, the Veterans Health Administration provides assistance through administration and managementRead… Read more »
Copyright is one of the battlefields of the digital age, with the ability to rapidly copy and distribute works via digital channels challenging 20th century industries that have relied on traditional copyright laws to profit and thrive. It is also a key area for governments, who vary in their approach to copyright around the world.Read… Read more »
I saw an interesting article, the Best Kept Secrets of Successful Business People, but found many of its ideas fit anyone who seeks success. And there is a purely selfish reason they are kept secret. However, the question for trainers is: Can you train someone to be successful? I have to answer: Not really. IRead… Read more »
Neal was telling me about his most prized Christmas present. His kids had given him a book of the best scientific essays of the past year. Short, a couple of pages per thought, he was enthralled. He was relishing the wonder of several pounds of other species that live on and in our bodies, how,Read… Read more »
I recently co-founded an organization called OpenOakland with Code for America alumni Eddie Tejeda. One of our passions was that we both believe that government can and should be much more than a vending machine. It’s no secret that current local governments have a ton of changing to do, but we think it is unlikelyRead… Read more »
Join Y.O.U.N.G. AFGE for its annual meeting and happy hour at this year’s Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization Conference. Email [email protected] if you’re interested in attending. For more information on this year’s Legislative Conference please visit http://www.afge.org//Index.cfm?Page=LegislativeConference. (You will need to log in to the AFGE website to access the information.) Filed under: Events, Trainings, Uncategorized,Read… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Terracotta offers novel solutions to speed enterprise software Note: excerpted from Terracotta’s blog (here). In the last few posts, we have outlined how in-memory solutions are being adopted in industries such as financial services, travel & logistics, and big pharma to overcome many kinds of Big Data challenges. Here I’d like to shareRead… Read more »