I am a part-time YA & Adult Programming Clerk for our County Library, the Main Branch. Our town has a population of under 30K people. Incomes are disparate from the West to the East. While more than 78% of our town has an income of under 17Gs per year. The other 22% are in theRead… Read more »
Last week I read 2nd Machine Age, which pointed out thatMoore’s Law, that computing power per cost doubles approximately every 18 months and has been chugging along for 60 years, is not a law, but the sum of thousands of heroic breakthroughs, a lot of people doing good work. Every time some theoretically imposed boundaryRead… Read more »
We were having a very nice week until early Friday morning, when things fell apart. The jobs report came out, and the market seemed to like it. Stocks opened higher after the report, but something went very wrong shortly thereafter. Despite the big losses on Friday, we actually posted modest gains for the week inRead… Read more »
Here’s a post I wrote for the IC Space, sharing three social media tips for internal communicator. You can read the original posting over on the UK Government Communications Service website. The IC Space is a fantastic place for internal communication professionals across government to learn and network so I was delighted to be askedRead… Read more »
Energy production from fossil fuels is estimated to cause 30,000 excess deaths per year in the US from pollution. More US citizen die every year from this pollution than the cumulative deaths from all the years of our recent wars. It causes an estimated 400,000 deaths worldwide. On top of this, its global warming costsRead… Read more »
I can’t believe our Spring Training Conference is already less than a week away, coming up next week on Thursday, April 10th! As the Vice President of Membership and Marketing here at The Coalition, my number one priority is to form a relationship with each of our members and gain a solid understanding of theirRead… Read more »
One of the best study tools for the PMP Exam are PMP exam sample tests. As you are preparing for the PMP exam you are in fact preparing to take a 200-question multiple choice exam. And just as if you were an Olympic athlete, taking this exam becomes your sport and you have to practiceRead… Read more »
This article originally appeared in the April edition of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) magazine, Communication World. For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. It was an inefficient, yet accepted dance at organizations of all shapes and sizes. There was paid media, andRead… Read more »
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed a “Phased Retirement” program. Although implementation has not been announced, it may be valuable to our readers to get a jump start on what Phased Retirement is all about. The Office of Personnel Management realizes the importance of preserving and protecting institutional knowledge. As federal employees leaveRead… Read more »
Trying to regain lost organizational morale? Using new math to figure out how to do more with less…again? We are now well into a year since we first started to talk Sequestration and the mandatory budget cuts and spending ceilings are no longer new. But knowing that something will happen and dealing with the effectsRead… Read more »