Yearly Archives: 2009

Discovering Your Passion through Humble Practice and Outrageous Play

A playful challenge from an audience member helps bring to life the importance of searching for and developing your passion, whether in the face of skepticism, long periods of self-doubt and/or having to accept (even better, learn to play with and laugh at) your own flaws and foibles. Setting the stage for the dramatic closeRead… Read more »

Crackberries

My son got a new phone; he chose a Blackberry. You ever notice that folks who have these NEVER stop fiddling with them? Waiting in line, on the subway, ESPECIALLY in meetings, Blackberry owners are constantly surfing, reading email, playing Tetris, doing God knows what, instead of paying attention to where they are and whatRead… Read more »

5 Tips and Tools to Check Out Before You Go to the Open Government & Innovations (OGI) Conference NEXT WEEK!

The Open Government & Innovations Conference, “OGI” for short, is jam-packed with world-renowned speakers, cutting-edge research and real-life case studies (you can see the details in all of their glory here). Whether you work in the public or private sector, you’re going to learn a ton and make dozens of contacts. To make sure thatRead… Read more »

Great piece on outward-looking social media in GOVTECH

Terrific piece by Hilton Collins in GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY, “Emergency Managers and First Responders Use Twitter and Facebook to Update Communities.” Excellent examples of agencies embracing the Big Network, engaging with the public in the community space, practitioners. This is very very encouraging. Blogging on GovLoop about a piece I found on Twitter in a GovZineRead… Read more »

Enabling Open Government

In June, I made a presentation to the Government SIG of the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network. Sunny Hester, who is the SIG Chair, recently created a Government OD Network group. The topic of my presentation was Enabling Open Government, which covered several topics, including a final section which I hope will generate a conversationRead… Read more »

Special Agent Oso: Memoirs from Maine (#001)

Remember “Special Agent Oso??” Well, it’s that time of year where the special agent joins his “mom” (Chief Marketing Officer Kathleen Smith) along for the annual summer getaway! This will be the first in a handful of blog posts where we recount some of Special Agent Oso,’s aka Chief Security Officer for ClearedJobs.Net, various summerRead… Read more »

Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) – cancelled

Because the various agencies of the Department of Defense were unable to come to agreement on the requirements and implementation of an updated Joint Command and Control capability, NECC has been canceled and funding directed towards the various Global Command and Control System silos. “Due to the unwillingness of the Services and others to agreeRead… Read more »

NTSB to WMATA – improve safety

The NTSB has sent a letter to WMATA urging WMATA to review its safety system and report back in 30 days. Specifically, WMATA should: “[t]ake action to enhance the safety redundancy of [its] train control system by evaluating track occupancy data on a real-time basis in order to detect losses in track occupancy and automaticallyRead… Read more »

Hack attacks cry out for fast response

Check out this week’s Fierce Government IT article on the July 4 hack attacks. How long will it take the government to realize its computer systems are sitting ducks for big-time cyber attacks in ways they can’t imagine? Check out: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/hack-attacks-underscore-urgent-need-defense/2009-07-11