Molly Moran

I wish. We still email files as attachments.

A few years ago I worked in an office that allowed and encouraged employees to telework one day a week. I often “skipped” my telework day, however, and came into the office anyway, because I found the technology too frustrating. It wasn’t the technology of meetings that was the problem (I found phone conferences to be adequate) but the…[Read more]

I wonder if that has to do with the data source. For example, it’s pretty easy to get solid numbers on how many hours’ worth of video are uploaded to YouTube each minute, because you’re measuring from just one point (YouTube). Online shopping happens at gazillions of sites. How did they get that number? Is it an estimate from some government…[Read more]

Regarding the DOE example: most likely the contractors’ companies paid for their meals. I have seen that at State Department events before. Those companies are allowed to do that, and of course the government is not allowed to pay for their employees’ food (unless of course we’re talking M&IE).

I did something similar (but on a much, much smaller scale) a few months ago. We needed to create a one-page handout for new employees that informed them of the most important things to know about IT security at State (in our office). We wanted to make sure it stood out from all the other handouts people get when they’re new. I’ve attached the…[Read more]

You could use Google Analytics. You’d have to send log files to the cloud, but no content. It’s reliable, but I do have some recommendations for best practices. I’m happy to chat more about it if you’d like.

At State, we’ve recently (Feb.) launched an intranet website for employees to submit their good ideas for how to improve the Department. Yes, we get complaints, but the form is set up to collect ideas, not complaints, and almost everyone includes some suggestion of how to fix the problem they identify. This site is modeled in large part on TSA’s…[Read more]

Entirely possible that it’s an altruistic app. It just seemed strange to have one *just* for government sites. It made me think that someone is trying to collect government URLs. And maybe that would be for good reasons, maybe not. I wish that the “about” link worked. 🙂

Anyone in this forum a government contractor? I suspect that we have a good resource for creativity in gov’t contractors, but I also suspect we put even more bureaucratic restrictions on these people than we do gov’t employees. At least I think that’s true in my case.