The Best Degrees to Get Into Government
Here are some of the best degrees to get into government.
More Communication, Collaboration Needed in Federal Cybersecurity
By Jeff Ghelerter and Curtis Cote The numbers are astonishing. There are around 70 million cyber-attacks on the Department of Defense per week, or roughly 115 per second, and the National Nuclear Security Administration matches those numbers. Cyber-attacks on the federal government increased 782% between 2006 and 2012, and 66% of security breaches go undetectedRead… Read more »
The 21st Century is a Really Bad Time for Control Freaks
The 21st Century is a really bad time for control freaks. – Alec Ross, former Senior Advisor for Innovation to the U.S. Secretary of State The State Department trusts its employees to tweet – why doesn’t yours? The above quote was mentioned by Graham Lampa, State Department Office of Public Diplomacy, at the SocialGov Summit,Read… Read more »
Throwback Thursday: Actors Don’t Hide their Oscars, Why Should You? … It’s Oscars season again!
As we prepare for the Oscars this Sunday (Hosted by Ellen!) I thought it would be a great time to look at the lessons that the Oscars can teach us in government. Paul Binkley, in this article from the 2012 Oscars, remarks on how the government should not hide their awards and accomplishments. Originally PostedRead… Read more »
The Government’s Hand (and Money) in Social Media
The data is out, government vendors manage to make money helping the government use social media. In fact, one of SmartProcure’s fellow participants in Code for America’s 2013 Accelerator was Archive Social, a fantastic govtech company that helps government agencies archive their social media activity. Here are the results based on the study of governmentRead… Read more »
Key Strategies to Dealing with the New Normal for Government Agencies and Contractors
Have you ever noticed how often in life signs all point in the same direction? The same issues keep coming up; the same themes keep reappearing? It’s as though the message carries such extreme importance that we are destined to sit up and take notice. If you’ve been following my blog posts over the lastRead… Read more »
2014 Public Participation Interviews: John Lewis on Outreach
We recently started reading a terrific interview series from the talented team at Collaborative Services on public participation lessons they have learned in the last year, and we wanted to share their insights with the NCDD community. The third interview in the series features the reflections of John Lewis of Intelligent Futures, who shares insightsRead… Read more »
An Uncluttered Inbox = An Uncluttered Mind
Hello, my name is Lindsey, and I am an email hoarder. At least, I was in the past. With each new email account (personal, school, work) I opened, my inbox would balloon. A few emails would turn into a few hundred, eventually snowballing into a few thousand. I started missing emails and losing track ofRead… Read more »
Veterans Speak Out Against a Debilitating Federal Workplace Harming the Health of America’s Returning Military
(WASHINGTON, DC) — In a recently released statement veterans, members of The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C), called for the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration to stop the political power play and to mandate that federal supervisory and management officials face discipline for willfully breaking civil rights and whistleblower protection laws. “The unrestrained retaliatoryRead… Read more »
Facebook’s Purchase of WhatsApp Was Well Played
With Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, the social network has strategically solidified its position as the most dominant social media platform. This is not surprising to me, considering that my December blog post focused on WhatsApp being the next big story. Despite recent reports of fewer teens using Facebook, it now owns two ofRead… Read more »