Lisa Coates

Since most of our government training budgets have continously declined each year, YouTube has been beneficial in offering a wealth of training on just about everything from Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts, Graphic Design, Microsoft Office and the new Windows 8. YouTube has quickly become my training friend.

Does your agency offer Wellness Programs that promote health and fitness to lower your insurance premiums? Our agency offers a voluntary program that requires each participant to pass certain thresholds to qualify for discounts up to a maximum.

Has anyone heard of NAGARA, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators? How does it compare to ARMA and AIIM? Also is NARA still around, or is NAGARA a division of it?

Thanks a bunch!

What do you think about County and local governments using Paypal to collect payments, fees and other government services. Since most of the public is already familiar with Paypal and the security aspects of credit card information is already in place, could this be a lower cost and more efficient way of accepting payments?

Thanks to Fern Halper for this article.

I was at the EMC writer’s conference this past Friday, speaking on Text Analytics and ECM. The idea behind the conference is very cool. Writers and bloggers come from all over the world to discuss topics relevant to content management. All of the sessions were great. We discussed Cloud, Web 2.0, Sharepoint,…[Read more]

It’s probably a good idea to build your website in a content management system if you want its content updated frequently and don’t have a dedicated web analyst/programmer available to make those updates. If you can benefit from having many non-technical folks able to add or change information on the site, or standard formatting and text styles…[Read more]