Me, Mike Bracken, Tom Loosemore chatting at GDS – part of the LocalGov Digital Visit On Thursday 10th April a small group of the LocalGov Digital Steering Group visited the GDS offices to share our journey, share our outputs, ideas and challenges and start a conversation around how we might be able to work effectivelyRead… Read more »
The Project Management Institute’s (PMI)® Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential is a globally recognized certification of project management knowledge, skills and experience. So it’s not surprising that PMI takes great care to insure the quality of its certification process, from application through post certification. When you apply to sit for PMI’s PMP Certification, you willRead… Read more »
In a recent post titled, Ready for the Remote Work Revolution?, author David Grinberg provides a compelling argument for the future of telework. David’s comments are clear…telework is here to stay! I agree with David whole-heartedly. In fact, I envision a day when the term telework will be a word of the past; much inRead… Read more »
Augview, founded by Michael Bundock in 2012 in New Zealand, is the first commercial, mobile application I have seen offered to the public works industry allowing utilities to geospatially capture, store, and display underground utilities in 3D through the use of a tablet or other mobile device. The software, through the use of GIS, willRead… Read more »
It’s always good to see slow burning success… and even more so when it comes for people who has worked hard on it. John Fox spent a fair chunk of time at Sheffield City Council on a range of projects and working to get customer services engaged with the social web was one. I helpedRead… Read more »
Well, it’s had a great innings but can we now finally bury the idea that using social media ad hoc in an organisation is going to change the world? But what great days we had. We had a mantra of JFDI in local government – just flipping do it – and we did things underRead… Read more »
GovHack 2014 has just opened for registration with 10 locations across Australia, being: Brisbane GovHack Canberra GovHack GovHack FNQ (Cairns) Gold Coast GovHack GovHack Tasmania Melbourne GovHack Perth GovHack Sydney GovHack Unleashed Adelaide Unleashed Mount Gambier While competition details are not yet available, the official 2014 datasets will be put online over the next twoRead… Read more »
PSRetirement.com The rules for your Thrift Savings Plan are pretty straightforward while you are working, but they become increasingly more complex as you enter retirement and attempt to access the money that you have saved in your TSP.gov account. You have 5 withdrawal options for your Thrift Savings Plan that you can select from. OptionRead… Read more »
According to a recently released Latham & Watkins Client Alert Commentary, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) jointly released a proposed rule on March 25, 2014, which would represent the most sweeping change in a generation to the rules governing federal Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction. BasedRead… Read more »
In principle, groups often get bogged down in details (who should do what by when and how) and fail to stay on the high ground (strategic direction and guiding policies). The group as a whole has the unique perspective of seeing all that the group is doing, all the opportunities, all the threats. It isRead… Read more »