There’s been a lot of chatter on GovLoop recently about government moving to video-conferencing instead of in-person meetings. Though your office may be having trouble making the move, Missouri’s 4th Judicial Circuit has installed five hi-definition video cameras which will be used mostly for juvenile justice matters, saving travel and scheduling expenses. The system mayRead… Read more »
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The Department of Homeland Security and FBI recently issued a memo to its state and local law enforcement partners titled “No Specific Threat to American Jewish Community, Despite Recent World Events.” The intelligence document said in part: “We have no specific information that Iran or its surrogates are targeting Jewish organizations, facilities, or personnel inRead… Read more »
Join us on Thursday, March 1, 2012, for our next dinner meeting! Our dinner speaker, Major General Wendy M. Masiello, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, presenting: “Critical Contracting Initiatives for the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force” Please join us for an engaging eveningRead… Read more »
Happy President’s Day! Some people believe that the American dream is to make a lot of money, buy a nice house and have a good paying job. But, there are so many Americans that have a lot of money, a nice house and a good paying job and they are still unhappy. I wonder why,Read… Read more »
At the end of last week, the DOE and Commerce Department announced that they had teamed up to provide $1.3 million for green building skills training through the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program. The funding is intended for training programs that will increase energy efficiency, reduceRead… Read more »
Basic Info Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff Why I bought it I read an article Rushkoff published (on CNN) entitled Are Jobs Obsolete and immediately thought anyone who is willing to ask a question that challenges the very assumptions underlying our problems is worth investigating. Here theRead… Read more »
Social Connect via: So what does the typical day for the bureaucrat look like? The new bureaucrat logs into their computer which takes about 10-20 minutes to start up because it has one processor with 1GB of RAM and was built about 5 years ago. After login, they pop open Microsoft Outlook 2003, check theirRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: I am once again joined by Todd Williams, author of the book Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. In our last interview Todd gave us an overview over the process, tools & techniques he recommends for rescuing problemRead… Read more »
Leadership is about somehow getting people with different views to come together and execute on goals and plans they would never agree to on their own. Clearly, that’s not happening in many local governments. Polarizing leadership and divisive management are real and entirely common issues that destroy organizational effectiveness and ultimately lead to operating failureRead… Read more »