In order to keep my ‘passion’ (or as I like to call it, ‘purpose’) up in my office and my work, I’ve found like-minded people in the office and started to create a NextGen Employee Resource Group. Check out if your office has a Diversity and Inclusion’ish office, and see if creating something similiar would work for you. What are your passions…[Read more]

Thinking outside of the box a bit – look at the craft beer industry. So many of these craft beer companies are ‘collaborating’ with their fellow competitor to help one another make better beer. That’s their purpose at the end of the day and by collaborating, they help each other mutually. Of course they are also trying to gain market share,…[Read more]

I guess my response to Q1 would be because I was using my own device and IT did not want to ‘take back’ the IT property from me. Not sure why but they said it was assigned to me, so I held onto it (and the one I currently have). To the second point, if we captured excess IT property and used more of a pull system instead of a push system to…[Read more]

1) How is BYOD progressing at your agency?A: Slowly at best. To put this in perspective, we just received new BlackBerries that replaced one-year-old BlackBerries, which mine has sat in my desk for the last year.2) Are your managers/supervisors embracing or rejecting BYOD?A: I would say 50/50. Some managers do embrace and point employees to sign…[Read more]

Just got into the whole french press thing – but I have to say, the dunkin donuts pumpkin spice coffee is amazing. And now that they make it into k-cups, even better!