The U.S. Department of Commerce officially started their 2009 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) on November 2, with a kickoff in their Hoover Building. Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, provided remarks that encouraged his fellow employees to support the CFC this year. “Due to the economy charitable giving is down, that’s why it is so criticalRead… Read more »
Citizen’s Tools has a great post about making the case for 2.0 projects. Having just returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco where the subject of defining and measuring ROI was all around, this post became more relevant to me. But, regardless of which of the E 2.0, Web 2.0 or Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
Today is the 234th birthday of the founding of the U.S. Marine Corps. How do I know this? Well being a veteran owned – Marine- company and with so many of our staff current or former Marines it is a little hard not to know this! In honor of today, we have put together thisRead… Read more »
Not much more than I can say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlrrAWCTRg
Here in the UK, the first sighting in public has emerged of the Government’s new overarching ‘UK Public Sector ICT Strategy’ due to be published next month. The strategy has been in development over the last year by the UK Government’s CIO Council (a central co-ordinating body modelled on the Federal CIO Council) and plansRead… Read more »
I am working through the final edits of my workbook and instructional CD titled How to Write Persuasive Executive Summaries I am planning to release in the next few weeks. I am very excited because it introduces my six-part formula and goes step-by-step through helping people become real masters at writing hard-hitting executive summaries. Today,Read… Read more »
In a book by Rob Cross and Robert Thomas entitled “Driving Results Through Social Networks”, I thought the following challenge epitomizes what the government must address regarding social networking software. Work and innovation are inherently collaborative endeavors, but as the need for collaboration increases, the demands of people’s time rises. The answer is not moreRead… Read more »
My natural state of being is to listen rather than talk. I’ve always been that annoying kid since age 2 asking questions – who, what, where, why, and when? It’s been an interesting transition as GovLoop has taken off as I’ve been asked to speak more which puts me a little out of my naturalRead… Read more »
In May of this year, I was listening to a senior government official talk about the fact that he has never been able to understand the rush to spend money that every government official is accustomed to each fall. He asked, with a shrewd look, how many corporations in America live by the “Spend everything!”Read… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered two agency attorneys to remove a YouTube video they produced that criticizes climate change legislation backed by the Obama administration. Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and live in San Francisco, received clearance from EPA to post the video, but were told they could mentionRead… Read more »