In case anyone needs more reasons why investing time in social media should be strongly considered, especially at the local government level, I offer this case study (from my own view, of course). In the last three weeks, the H1N1 vaccine has been slowly rolling out to local jurisdictions. In Fairfax County, we’ve now hostedRead… Read more »
Whats your favorite Gov Holiday? 16.1% Columbus Day 35.5% Veterans Day 14.5% Presidents Day 33.9% MLK Day
Twitter has started its mass roll out of lists and I just created my first of public sector people (and hangers on) I follow. I laughed out loud when I clicked through to see I’d been already added onto 28 existing lists – and what those list titles are. According to some of my followers,Read… Read more »
Blood Donations Needed Update – Friday , 11/6/09, 23:30 EST Blood donations for U.S. Army personnel wounded in the Ft. Hood shooting incident are being accepted at Scott & White Healthcare’s Blood Center in Temple, TX on Saturday, 11/7 from from 9:00 AM – noon local time and again on Monday, 11/9 starting at 8:00Read… Read more »
I am new to my position, I am looking for guidance on creating a Communication Plan for MS State Personnel Board.
Last week, I published my assessment of what’s happened in the past year to implement the Federal Web Manager Council’s White Paper: Putting Citizens First – Transforming Online Government. Since then, I’ve been thinking about what could kick-start real progress in implementing the vision of this paper…and a broader government-wide commitment to Citizen Services. SoRead… Read more »
There are so many nifty Twitter tools out there, but my enthusiasm was always dampened for the ones that asked for my Twitter username and password. Why on Earth would I trust them? If they were really that good, I would use them and then immediately change my password. Then Twitter introduced OAuth, named forRead… Read more »
Very few people really understand the complexities of government contracting, so perhaps it’s no surprise that President Obama dodged a very specific question Thursday morning about the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program. As The Eye has reported before, the program is designed to ensure that minority-owned small businesses — especially Native American-owned shopsRead… Read more »
Coming from a background in Military Medicine, I picked up a bias or two about the benefits of organizations that work together. I was a Navy Corpsman, a member of the most decorated Corps in the Navy. More medals of honor and purple hearts have been awarded to Navy Corpsman than any other Corps. ARead… Read more »
Originally posted to Unleash The Monster The clock is ticking as we’re about a month away from the deadline for federal agencies to have their hiring reform initiatives underway. In June, OMB Director Peter R. Orszag set expectations in a memo for federal agencies to make considerable progress in four key areas of hiring: *Read… Read more »