Hi All – Hope you had a safe and happy new year, I did, despite accidentally (read: foolishly) putting my car into a snow bank on New Year’s Eve, but that is a story for another time. I figured I should take the time to share a couple of upcoming events (listed by date) thatRead… Read more »
We’re running a poll to find out what America thinks was the most significant government-related news story of 2011. Was it the economy and the Federal budget? The assassination of Osama bin Laden? The end of the war in Iraq? or one of the other important events from the year? Vote today for the TopRead… Read more »
Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar of high interest to professionals in the federal IT domain. Our own Bob Gourley is introducing the webinar with a review of key use cases in the federal space. The following is from their announcement site: Join us as we describe big data technologiesRead… Read more »
We are in the process of transitioning from the Industrial Age of the past century into the Information Age of the 21st century. Many acknowledge this but don’t really grasp what it means. We are moving from the ‘closed’ protective systems that worked well in the Industrial Age to the new, more effective ‘open’ systemsRead… Read more »
By Jennifer Kaplan, GovDelivery This blog post is a response to a recent article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune on social media in government. It was a great article, but I felt compelled to respond! ************ I work for a company that does digital communication management (email/text/rss/social media) exclusively for the public sector. It’sRead… Read more »
Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation (COSI) are key management strategies public and private sector organizations need to incorporate into their corporate culture in order to compete and succeed in the 21st century. The adoption and application of these new management strategies is already evident within many companies in almost every industry. Industries and businesses throughoutRead… Read more »
Carl Sternberg, professor of public administration and government at the School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reviewed 246 stories summarized in the International City County Manager Associations News Briefings from April 2009 to April 2011. Sternberg’s review provides an interesting look at how governments across the country are dealing with reducedRead… Read more »
So I loath making this the first post of the new year, but here we go. Today Canada.com published a story “Tony Clement vows innovative new open government, but critics point to poor record.” In it, Jason Fekete the journalist responsible for the story, quotes a Democracy Watch spokesperson who sadly gets the facts completelyRead… Read more »
In September of 2011, President Obama issued a memorandum to reduce wasteful duplication in federal contracting. The memorandum was part of President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste. The memorandum requires that starting January 1, 2012, all agencies will submit their business cases to a White House database before opening any new contracts for bids. TheRead… Read more »
In the last post, we discussed some great educational opportunities for government employees you may not have heard of. In this post, we’ll talk about some lessons my classmates and I learned from the Advanced Management Program (AMP) class hosted by National Defense University (NDU). Top 5 Lessons Learned I’ve boiled down 14 tough butRead… Read more »