Weekly Round-up: September 27, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Information week reports that the FDA “issued final guidelines for mobile health apps Monday, outlining the apps that the regulations will affect and the requirements those apps must meet to achieve FDA approval.” Related: how about an implantable health data tracker? The US State Department is now on Instagram. Not even a weekRead… Read more »

Follow Friday

It’s quite common to see people on Twitter celebrating a milestone of the number of people following them, or to urge for themselves or for some deserving cause the attention of a few more people to push them over the next threshold. That is clearly a measure of something, but it’s not completely clear what,Read… Read more »

Watch ABC 7:30 ACT tonight for a piece on Social Media and the APS

There should be an interesting piece on ABC 7:30 tonight in the ACT looking at the relationship between the Australian Public Service and the use of social media by public servants. I was interviewed from Brisbane for the piece and know of several other ex public servants who were also interviewed or consulted. There’s alsoRead… Read more »

A Look at the Next Two Weeks…And Beyond

by Steve Charles, Co-founder and Executive Vice President With the Washington Nationals now eliminated for sure from this season’s baseball playoffs, Washington the city and the market can focus fully on handicapping the possibility of a government shutdown next week. Just in case, the White House issued a memo this month on agency operations duringRead… Read more »

When Will the Federal Government Get Back to Normal? 5 Reasons the Shutdown is the New Normal

As a partner in a small government consulting firm, I’ve asked myself this question several times over the last two years – especially as we prepare for the possibility of yet another government shutdown and then a debt default soon after. Will contracts stop? What do we tell employees? How do we prepare? Can weRead… Read more »

Going Mobile: What You Need to Know before Implementing a Mobile Learning Program

I had the marvelous opportunity yesterday to attend the Government Workforce: Learning Innovations conference hosted by the ASTD Government Community and the Public Manager. One of the first sessions that I attended dealt with mobile learning programs in government. The two speakers, Matt MacLaughlin with the U.S. Army Logistics Management College and Leo Grassi fromRead… Read more »

Digital Era Careers: Putting Things in Perspective

On September 12, 2013 I had the pleasure of speaking to both MBA and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. I was invited by professors Mary Hinesly and Amy Young to give a presentation entitled Your Digital Era Career to their Social Media and the Changing Nature of Business CommunicationRead… Read more »

Aphorism 93

There is a difference – often elided – between a probability and a degree of confidence in a forecast. It is one reason why we are better at avoiding drizzle than financial crises. John Kay Original post