There’s a little known secret out there among emergency professionals – FEMA has an awesome training facility in Emmitsburg, Maryland where public works professionals working in local government can get free, high-quality emergency response training. In July of this year, I was fortunate enough to attend a week of training there and plan to shareRead… Read more »
This is the horse and the hound and the horn, That belonged to the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with theRead… Read more »
With the New Year fast approaching, I think now is a perfect time to talk about improving oneself. Specifically, I want to talk about the importance of learning. At my company, Millsapps, Ballinger & Associates we consider continuing education and training to be a non-negotiable necessity, both within our company, and as a service toRead… Read more »
What happened this year in civic tech? We recently convened our final Municipal Innovation call of 2012, bringing together civic innovators from inside and outside government for a roundtable review of the year. Here’s what we heard from them: What were the biggest successes for civic tech in 2012? Wider adoption of Gov 2.0 principlesRead… Read more »
I have created a petition on We The People aimed at allowing leave donated under Federal Leave-Share provisions to be considered tax deductible. The aim is to increase leave donated to increase Federal productivity by limiting use-or-lose leave, while increasing the amount of leave available for qualified leave-share recipients to use to cope with illness,Read… Read more »
The stock market was down every day last week, normally the strongest seasonal week of the year, so we found out that strong seasonality takes a back seat to fiscal cliffs and capital gains selling. Here are the TSP fund returns for the week of December 24 through December 28 . The S-fund (small caps)Read… Read more »
By BobGourley This special report provides insights from a our reporting over the last 12 months, including summaries of our Government Big Data Newsletter (sign up for this weekly report here http://ctovision.com/newsletter-subscriptions) Among the many Big Data themes we reported on in 2012, one seemed to resonate the most with our readers– all of usRead… Read more »
By Daniel Abadi Editor’s note: The piece below by Daniel Abadi first appeared on the Hadapt blog and is republished with permission here. The framework presented provides insight into the very dynamic market around “Big Data Innovators” and should be of use for classifying many other firms in this interesting space. –bg Recently InformationWeek publishedRead… Read more »
“It’s the end of the world as we know it…and I feel fine.” – R.E.M. – Okay, so the world did not end last Friday afterall (take a deep breath and slowly exhale). Whew…what a relief. Now we can all take a “time out” to celebrate Christmas and ring in the New Year. That is,Read… Read more »
The magic date is March 27, 2013 … No kidding? According to the 12/27/12 executive order, OPM is instructed to adjust the General Schedule base rate by one-half of 1%. In addition, depending on where you work, locality rates will increase between 14.16% (for the Rest of US) to 27.16% (for the L.A. area). CheckRead… Read more »