Steve Radick

+1000 to Jeffrey’s list. Jeffrey’s definition and mine mirror one another. “Getting your needs met by meeting your manager’s needs” is pretty much how I’ve always defined it as well. It’s not about just making your boss’ job easier – that’s just being a good employee. It’s about accomplishing your goals by managing your boss. Jeffrey gives some…[Read more]

I don’t know if BYOD increases my productivity, but I know that BYOB increases my morale!

The most powerful statement in this piece is this –

“if you think optimizing your Facebook page and Tweets is “optimizing for social,” you’re only halfway (or maybe 30 percent) correct. The only real way to optimize for social spread is in the nature of the content itself.”

The people, government agencies, and brands who we think “do social well”…[Read more]

I’m definitely a Demonstrator!

You should check out the http://www.rebelsatwork.com/ site – I think all the folks commenting here would love the stories and inspiration there. Also, check out my post on corporate rebels at http://steveradick.com/2012/03/06/are-you-a-corporate-rebel/.

My response was too long for a comment – http://steveradick.com/2012/07/24/recovering-from-a-social-media-mistake/.

This – http://steveradick.com/2012/03/29/identify-the-right-people-to-manage-your-social-media-initiatives-2/

See, now that I think we can all agree on – our contracting companies don’t pay people like me enough

As one of the hated contractors :), I’d like to jump in and say that we tend to get a bad rap here in these sorts of discussions about salaries. However, a vast majority of the contractors that you’re working side-by-side with are making very similar salaries – the average salary of the government contractor is inflated by those C-suite execs who…[Read more]

Let me offer a counterpoint. I dealt with a similar situation with one of my clients a few years ago. A pornstar had followed their account (a DoD account dealing with wounded warriors) and they were worried, as you are, about the potential association with their government account. Unfortunately, as I pointed out to them, that pornstar is a…[Read more]

I think it’s safe to say that a majority of GovLoopers can be considered “change agents,” in one fashion or another. We’re all here because we learn from one another, we empathize with each other, and we help one another. GovLoop isn’t just a website, it’s a living, breathing, community of people (at least that’s how I see it). And anytime you…[Read more]

I do think everyone should have access to the Internet and there should be Wi-Fi everywhere, although I don’t think government should be paying for it. I think the current companies just need to change their model. Wi-Fi shouldn’t be tied to the device – it should be tied to the person. I should be able to have one log-in that I use whether I’m…[Read more]

Mary – as someone in industry who is eager to see a shift toward making the acquisition process more simple and transparent, I can tell you some of the challenges that I’ve encountered:

The people who often control the official relationships (our various account leads, etc.) with agencies are in no hurry to change the way they do things. While I…[Read more]

We had this issue internally here as well with getting people to upload their pics to our internal social networking platform, hello.bah.com. Here are some of things we did:

We hired a professional photographer to come to our lobby for several days at lunch and they would take professional (or fun) pics of anyone who stopped by free of charge. …[Read more]

HAH – no, our DJ was actually kind of an ass – we didn’t even have dinner music for the first half-hour because he was IN LINE TO GET FOOD.

Our first dance song was “Everything” by Lifehouse, but because it’s so slow, we actually had a friend of ours remix it and play a faster, condensed version for us.

Actually, I don’t think it’s about the content or the tool, but about the people. I think the biggest mistake government makes with social media is that they put the wrong people in charge of it. They look at it as content instead of people-to-people interaction. They make it a condition of a position, instead of identifying the person with the…[Read more]