Measuring the effectiveness of your social media effort: Or answering the really tough questions from people who are a little bit nervous about social media. At the recent LocalGovCamp, I was asked to present a session on performance management for social media. This is a little like performance managing telephone use. Yes, you can measureRead… Read more »
The 80/20 rule by @willperrin The 80/20 rule is something I’ve written about elsewhere – and yet somehow, in trying to share learning with others, I’ve once again missed the point myself. 80% of everything I do should be task drive, objective focused, performance indicator measured and efficiency motivated. My problem thus far this yearRead… Read more »
A great MIT Sloan School of Business Magazine article has some interesting results from a training / lessons-learned analysis program*. The results of the analysis are: Write it down Measuring results Peer meetings Supportive superiors Access to experts Write it downWriting down the material helps (notes), but writing down an action plan to use theRead… Read more »
This week’s Project of the Week is brought to you by one of GovLoop’s 2011 Major Partners, SAP Public Services. As the year continues they will continue to be present on GovLoop to help educate and mobilize your agency. Dr. GovLoop recently caught wind of a great project SAP conducted to get North Carolina’s DepartmentRead… Read more »
Deltek Principal Analyst Jason Sajko reports. When John Kasich (one of our nation’s 36 new state governors) was sworn in January 10, 2011, he immediately set out to craft a budget to address Ohio’s expected $8 billion shortfall in what is potentially the toughest budget the state has ever tackled. Kasich and appointed Director ofRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Vivek Kundra to Leave White House in August. OMB Director Jack Lew has a nice good-bye post on the WH Blog for Vivek Kundra, who announced that he is leaving the administration in August for a fellowship at Harvard. Need to Find an Embassy? Look up a Travel Alert? There’s an App forRead… Read more »
mLearnCon is coming up next week! June 21-23, we’ll be doing some intensive deep dives into how mobile devices can (and are) transforming learning across a lot of domains (corporate, government, medical, military, academia, edu, etc). I’m going to (try to) give you a sneak preview of what’s happening on the mLearning Future Zone stageRead… Read more »
Tweet North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue lost her budget battle yesterday as the legislature was successful in its effort to override her historic budget veto. In a first ever move of its kind, Governor Bev Perdue vetoed the budget measure passed by both houses citing excessive cuts and potential jobs lost in the state. TheRead… Read more »
Alice Rivlin, an expert on fiscal and monetary policy, is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. She was founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget and was vice chair of the Federal Reserve. What are some of the key leadershipRead… Read more »
As the UK government makes further plans to make cuts in public spending, local councils are increasingly looking at ways to cut costs and increase efficiencies by amalgamating back office services together By: Niamh Byrne, Online Editor, Shared Services and Outsourcing Network, SSON “I think within three years we will see a considerable increase inRead… Read more »