Posts Tagged: budgeting

The Government News You Need In 120 Seconds – March 28

The stories that impact your life… your government world in 120-seconds… 0328 NEWSCAST by cdorobek The House is once again at a standstill on the highway bill, just days before federal funding would be shut off and Congress skips town for its two-week recess. Politico reports that Republicans pulled a bill that would have providedRead… Read more »

Better Website Interaction Metrics for Economic Development

For the purposes of local or regional economic development, Internet exposure of marketing material is incredibly important. However, understanding whether the Internet exposure is actually supporting goals and objectives, and to what degree it’s generating useful interaction, isn’t easy, and certainly takes more people, time and expertise to work out than this simple blog postRead… Read more »

Cloud and Virtualization Track Highlights for FOSE 2012 – Register Today for Discount

I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This is the second post in a blog series highlighting the 2012 conference tracks. Over the next week, I’ll highlight one of the tracks and provide some insights to what you can expect to see at FOSE 2012. The five tracksRead… Read more »

U.S. Army Tops List of Most Engaging Agency Twitter Feeds

Twitter is a popular way for federal agencies to share updates on their organization and to converse with inquiring citizens. Yet a healthy Twitter presence is about more than just an impressive band of followers. Various other factors impact how effective a given Twitter feed may be, including replies, mentions, and outgoing tweets. One ofRead… Read more »

The Yelp for gov’t healthcare, Ranking state’s transparency and using virtual worlds to save real world bridges

The Yelp for gov’t healthcare, Ranking state’s transparency and using virtual worlds to save bridges by GovLoop Insights Tuesday March 27, 2012: Happy Tuesday… We have to start out with the historic debate at the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday over the health care bill — the first of three days of talks. The Washington PostRead… Read more »

Do We Really Need County Government?

As I stated in an earlier post, I recently attended a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara titled “Who Needs County Government and Why?”. The four featured speakers discussed the history of county government in New York State and the services delivered to county residents. 90% of Erie County’s $1.2Read… Read more »

HUD IT modernization efforts needs contractors of all sizes

From the Washington Business Journal: The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Stan Buch outlined the agency’s effort at modernization and adopting new technologies at a Deltek Inc. Deltek Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Deltek co-founder dies at 80Pay for performance? A procurement model tied to outcomes is pitched by iGate Corp., but challengesRead… Read more »

On Becoming an IT Solution Architect – 5 Critical Practices

The Information Technology (IT) inventory of HR role and position labels is broad and deep. IT position descriptions may be closely associated with actual black box technology (like “Microsft Windows Server 2008 Administrator” or “Storage Area Network (SAN) Engineer”), or they may describe roles in a methodology-driven context required for IT success (“IT Project Manager”,Read… Read more »