I just returned from a (smooth and perfect) two-weeks cross country trip through Panama, my home country. The trip had multiple purposes including reconnecting with parts of the country I had not visited in over 15 years. But, an unexpected result from this much planned journey came from an unlikely source. While driving to theRead… Read more »
Are you someone who knows exactly what it takes to make NASA the best agency possible? Do you doodle ideas on cocktail napkins and mail them to a NASA Center? Do you wake up early in the morning to watch Space Shuttle launches (like this morning’s 4:14 a.m. EST STS-130 launch) or stay up allRead… Read more »
Hello All, I know that it is a snow day for many individuals on the east coast today (or at least I know that our nonprofit corporate office stationed in Pennsylvania is having a snow-day), so I thought that I would share a fun new government game that with you that I found on aRead… Read more »
The White House required all agencies to establish websites for sharing ideas using the free IdeaShare system. They are all now up and listed at http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/open/tool_agency_poc.shtml. Now is the time to share your ideas with your agency officials. Don’t be shy!
It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk from www.tsptalk.com. It was an interesting week for the stock market. The losses were not overly extreme, but the action sure was. For the week, the C-fund was down 0.68%, the S-fund lost 1.29%, and the continued strength in the dollar pushed the I-fund down 3.11%. The F-fundRead… Read more »
A stress for a week will boost your zeal and help you improve your productivity but on the contrary, if stress exceeds more than a week then it is harmful to the person’s physical as well as mental state. So in order to keep this in track you need to know about stress management andRead… Read more »
Happy Monday! And Happy Snow Day (for most)! Washington area federal offices are closed today, which means the region’s largest employer will keep most workers away from the office. The decision marks the first time the government has shut down this year due to the weather and only the second time during the Obama administration.Read… Read more »
So the Census Bureau decided to spend $2.5 million to run an ad last night during SuperBowl XLIV, which caused some on Capitol Hill to finger wag about the investment and poor reviews from ad experts. Fair enough, we should be questioning how our government agencies spend taxpayer money as they strive to meet theirRead… Read more »
In the process of redesigning our city’s web site a few years ago, we studied the comments of Gerry McGovern in Ireland. Gerry is the author of a newsletter called NEW THINKING which has insightful content about the use of our web sites and the content we provide on it. I really liked his thoughtsRead… Read more »
Luis M. Álvarez Sabucedo of Universidade de Vigo Telematic Engineering Department, and colleagues, have published Knowledge-based platform for eGovernment agents: A Web-based solution using semantic technologies, 37 Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal 3647 (2010). Here is the abstract: Currently eGovernment is clearly gaining momentum in our society. Many solutions and projects are beingRead… Read more »