Last week, on the first day of the new school year in Detroit, the CfA Detroit team launched a new service with the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) called TextMyBus. TextMyBus provides a simple text messaging service to relay real time transit information to riders. In an environment where Detroiters are faced with cold winters,Read… Read more »
I had the opportunity to learn about some awesome tech stuff happening in politics, advocacy, and government yesterday evening at a DC Tech Meetup. For those not familiar with the group, the DC Tech Meetup “convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, 800+ innovators gather toRead… Read more »
Join us in Portland, Maine | October 9-12, 2012 for the annual NAJIS conference. Register at www.NAJIS.org This year’s agenda will cover trending topics of importance to criminal justice technology practitioners. Topics include SAVIN IEPD, eEverythingThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Re-Entry of OffendersThe Hampden County project, and Mobile Apps for Government, to mentionRead… Read more »
Government standards support federal vendors in metropolitan DC and the nation, Washington DC Government Business Examiner About one-third of metropolitan Washington DC’s economy is involved in or related to the federal government. Generally, the Nation’s Capital and surrounding suburbs are comprised of the following business sectors: Biotech – Washington DC is a biotechnology magnet, whichRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: As many security experts suspected, the Apple device ID’s that Anonymous claimed came from a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent’s hacked laptop actually came from the hack of an application development company. More here. A new survey finds that although much of federal information technology hasRead… Read more »
Photo credit: citrixonline from Flickr We often hear about the benefits of teleworking (e.g., cost savings, gas, more mobile workforce, etc), but what people don’t always tell you are those undisclosed benefits that you don’t realize until you actually telework regularly. I’ve been teleworking for about one month now. I do 2 days in theRead… Read more »
The term for someone fascinated with rules, not changing outcomes, obsessing over imagined possible violations. A spectator at life. Their work product is a shifting, unprioritized list of what could go wrong, real and imagined. It’s a task that doesn’t ever need to end, a full time occupation without effort. I was playing in aRead… Read more »
As the D.C. business community is dealing with many challenges these days, it is always good to keep all of your customer service capabilities as sharp as possible. With fewer dollars to chase, the competition is getting very stiff and contractors need to embrace new ideas for keeping government customers happy. I recently had theRead… Read more »
Don’t just attend the sessions at your next conference — use your badge to make the most of your time. Most conference badges are really just a pocket + a lanyard and even the simplest badges usually have room to stash stuff behind your name tag. Fancier badges often have a large pocket for aRead… Read more »