I was invited to participate in the Potomac Forum’s “Best Practices Symposium” today in Washington, DC. You can watch the full presentation with accompanying slides or you can absorb the slides without the commentary. The 6 Competencies of a Gov 2.0 Leader View more documents from Andrew Krzmarzick. Below is an abbreviated version of theRead… Read more »
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The Evolution of the Social Media Evangelist
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” I’m currently going through my annual assessment, and in completing my self-assessment, I had some time to reflect on the last year and subsequently, over my six years at Booz Allen. As I combed through old emails and files, I thought back to 2006Read… Read more »
NAFTA Wink-Nudge Stalls Mexico’s Trucking in US
The US-Mexican ‘”frontera” is a hot spot for turf rumbles and tariff tussles, on a personal and national scale. At this month’s Leaders Summit in Guadalajara. Presidents Calderon and Obama and Prime Minister Harper classically ducked the thorny subject of NAFTA’s stalled agreement for bi-national trucking reciprocity for Mexico. I suppose Mr. Harper got smartRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: Postal Service Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit
The Postal Service is offering up to $450 million to employees if they will agree to quit their jobs, it announced Tuesday, the latest effort by the financially struggling agency to reduce its costs amid a sharp decline in mail volume. Up to 30,000 employees can take the $15,000 bonus, which the Postal Service describesRead… Read more »
OPM and the Federal Hiring Process
From Nextgov.com OPM decides to keep application form on USAJobs By Alyssa Rosenberg 08/24/2009 The Office of Personnel Management will continue using a job application form it had considered removing from USAJobs, but the agency has asked for comment on whether the form imposes too great a burden on human resources offices. The Optional FormRead… Read more »
The Hokie Guru (Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports)… The Big 12 College Football Preview!!
Happy Monday!! Hope everyone had a good weekend. We’ve had a lot about those Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General (IG) reports on the abuse inside the secret prisons. If you don’t know about the role of an IG, well, essentially it’s the interal auditing arm of the federal government agency. Here is more about theRead… Read more »
Web 2.0/Sentiment Analysis
From the NY Times Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts By ALEX WRIGHT Aug. 23, 2009 Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings? The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computerRead… Read more »
GovTwit Week in Review 8/16 – 8/22
The DoD rolled out a new website last week at Defense.gov, highlighting social media tools in the site’s redesign. Check out the press release, Armed Forces Press Service story as well as the Social Media page in addition to the homepage. In related news, there was an interesting story from PBS Media Shift on HowRead… Read more »
Hokie Guru (Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports!!) – Who’s Gonna Burst the Bowl Championship Series Bubble?
Face, govies… we all love the litte guy… Everyone cheers for David… And that’s why we love college football!! Here are six non-Bowl Championship Series (BCS) teams that you, the college football fan, should cheer for this year: 1.) Boise State – Clearly, the class of the class of the non-BCS teams. In ten years,Read… Read more »
The Hokie Guru (Govloop’s Bureaucrat on Sports)… The Big Ten (Um, 11?) College Football Preview!!
Happy Sunday!!! Your History Lesson There’s been a few times in civil service history when the United States Government hired several government workers. 1978 was one of those years. That’s also when one of the largest civil service reforms, Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, was passed. The Act also established the Senior Executive ServiceRead… Read more »