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NAGC Presents a Special Webinar, Lessons Learned: Engaging Citizens in War-Torn Countries
Rear Admiral Vic Beck Vice Chief of Information U.S. Navy How do you communicate with and engage citizens who are just trying to survive? Especially, if you are the occupying force in war-torn areas? Rear Admiral Vic Beck was mobilized to run the public affairs efforts from the headquarters element in both Iraq and AfghanistanRead… Read more »
Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality Television and Poverty
I’m traveling for business and that means several things. Most predictably it means come the evening, I’m getting on a tread mill to exercise. I’m in Edmonton. It’s cold. Like -24C (-11F) cold. For whatever reason, while running the TV in front of me brings up Til Death Do Us Part a sort of realityRead… Read more »
NAGC Presents a Special Webinar ~ Lessons Learned: Engaging Citizens in War-Torn Countries
Lessons Learned: Engaging Citizens in War-TornCountries Thursday, January 31, 2013, 10 am EST Rear Admiral Vic BeckVice Chief of InformationU.S. Navy How do you communicate with and engage citizens who are just trying to survive? Especially, if you are the occupying force in war-torn areas? Rear Admiral Vic Beck was mobilized to run the publicRead… Read more »
Increase in world leaders tweeting mean an increase in open government?
Just after the new year, the Washington Post advertised a recent study showing that an increasing amount of world leaders are taking to Twitter to increase their reach to nationals, 140 characters at a time. While this new report from the Digital Policy Council does show a significant upward trend in the number of leadersRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: January 11, 2013
Gadi Ben-Yehuda In 2013, we’re all growing up a little bit. Smartphones entering that awkward phase? The Google Nexus 4 is too big for some hands (heck, even the iPhone used big hand models in 2007 to make itself look smaller), and yet the 5-inch Galaxy Note sold 10 million units and is spawning aRead… Read more »
CfP: Transformation of Citizenship and Governance in Asia (Special Issue)
Call for Papers (Special Issue) Transformation of Citizenship and Governance in Asia: The Challenges of Social and Mobile Media Guest Editors: Marko M. Skoric (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Nojin Kwak (University of Michigan, USA), Ines Mergel (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University), and Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, Austria) The proliferation ofRead… Read more »
Great new guide to help schools and communities respond to the Newtown tragedy
How should schools and communities respond to the Newtown tragedy? A great new resource has just been released to help communities engage in discussion and action on school safety and other issues raised by the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. We encourage NCDD members to print out copies of this NSPRA guide by Matt Leighninger, andRead… Read more »
Baby Boomers, Retirement, and Teleworking
I just wanted to chime in regarding the Federal retirement claims dropping by 57% from January 2012 to December 2012. Times ARE changing! I enjoy studying generations and several years ago predictions about the Baby Boomer generation was “all the rage.” Now the time has come and I find what is taking place fascinating. However,Read… Read more »
Some Recent Advice from an Assistant Deputy Minister
Earlier this week I sat down with an Assistant Deputy Minister of a major Canadian Government Agency to discuss employment opportunities, career progression and where I saw myself in the near to long term. For the record it was more of an informal discussion than a job interview, but the ADM did give me someRead… Read more »