Donna Roy, GovLoop Member, is the Executive Director of the National Information Exchange Model. She describes the program and its significance to government. The National Information Exchange Model or NIEM program was established in 2005 by the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice (DHS and DOJ), to leverage the great work the State and localRead… Read more »
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Reaching Government Decisionmakers
The government marketplace has always been regarded as one with high barrier to entry – the perception was that you need to make a significant commitment of resources and manpower, there are a myriad of rules and regulations to comply with, and that its an extremely complex market to break into, requiring a long timeRead… Read more »
UK Google moves into local government
Twitpic Ross L Grant Google UK launched it’s local government division on Friday August 8 with a day-long event held at their London offices and attended by around 65 people. As I have been talking and writing about their stuff (aka promoting!) for a few years now this day was pretty exciting for me. IRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0: The Promise of Innovation
Republished from Forbes.com. Column by Tim O’Reilly Original post can be found here www.gov2summit.com Over the past 15 years, the World Wide Web has created remarkable new business models reshaping our economy. As the Web has undermined old media and software companies, it has demonstrated the enormous power of a new model, often referred toRead… Read more »
10 Ways To Tell Your Boss What a Great Job You’re Doing
Cross-posted from thegovgurus.com: 10 WAYS TO TELL YOUR BOSS WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU’RE DOING By Lily Whiteman Federal Times columnist and author of How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job As your work projects progress, ask yourself whether your boss knows what you are doing. I mean really knows what you are doing, asRead… Read more »
The Future of Performance Management
I was at an AGA breakfast a few months ago and the point was raised that people in government had been talking about performance management for “some time”, with few results. It got me to thinking abut whether there is a future in performance management and what it might look like. A couple of publicationsRead… Read more »
GovTwit Week in Review: 8/02 – 8/08
Interesting Gov 2.0 tweets and stories from August 2-8, 2009 Gov20Radio discussed the challenges of turning from strict hierarchies to collaborative culture with Gwynne Kostin, a federal new media practitioner at DHS and publisher of the blog “On Dot-Gov.” Listen here. ~~~~~~~ Last week, Wired’s Danger Room reported that the U.S. DoD is considering banningRead… Read more »
Healing field – F.U.T.U.R.E
Healing Field – F.U.T.U.R.E by Donna L. Quesinberry, Washington DC Government Business Examiner First Stop: Greenville, SC October 16 – 18, 2009 Visualize a sea of red, white and blue where thousands of American flags stand tall in perfect rows and columns. As a strong statement of unity, Healing Field.org provides an awe-inspiring experience toRead… Read more »
An Update
It has been a while since I have written for this blog. During this hiatus I have been working on a wide area network project that has been all consuming and it is budget time for us. Our Web 2.0 initiative has continued with modest growth. Two additional departments have started blogs, our web pageRead… Read more »
Koobface returns! Quick, ban all social media!
This post was originally posted on my blog, Talking Salmons. Link to Mashable story. So, looks like Koobface is back. They’ve added some twists to the virus that made headlines last month. Viruses are the most frequent reason policy makers cite when moving to ban social media in the military workplace. However, I wanted toRead… Read more »