With all of the Agencies putting together their OpenGov plans due in April, I am curious as to how many have a coherent Social Media Strategy. developing-a-social-strategy-webinar is a great starting point. How do Agencies go beyond using social channels to simply push information and instead actually engage and listen to employees and the generalRead… Read more »
Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. The focus of this initiative is to: 1) Promote the use of Green IT 2) Reduce the cost of data center h/w,s/w and operations 3) Increase the overall IT security posture of the government; and 3) Shift IT investments to more efficient computing platforms and technologies… http://www.scribd.com/doc/27535844/Data-Center-Consolidation-Memo-02-26-10
Paper by Chris Rasmussen recently released via FOIA Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants in the U.S. Intelligence Community View more documents from GovLoop. Favorite
A very common complaint at job fairs is that after all the trouble of going to the event, standing in line and then talking to a recruiter, some recruiters will say “go to the website”. (Argh! as Charlie Brown would say.) There are many reasons for this response. First, each company has many different recruitersRead… Read more »
We generally have a disconnect between the person, business, or agency that we want to be and the reality of who or what we are today. This disconnect is a great thing, an opportunity for growth an opportunity for improvement. However, when not understood, it is also a major pain point, something that leads yourRead… Read more »
Last week we competed in the Amateur Rum Internationals in Nassau. Went diving with a couple from England. Chris had been a dairy farmer for over twenty years, then ten years ago he looked at the economics of dairy farming in England and decided there weren’t any. Took his buildings and converted them into “workshops.”Read… Read more »
I’ve recently been lucky enough to become part of a group of fellow Canadians, who, inspired by the works of giants like Steve Ressler, Chris Rasmussen, Nick Charney and David Eaves decided that we wanted a space of our own to play in. Canadians tend to get lots in the larger Govloop.com space, which isRead… Read more »
Greetings all, Sadly I wasn’t able to make the Govloop.ca Victoria meet up. Nina forwarded me the to-do list, and, as was declared by the group, I’m willing to take the lead in much of this. Steve has named me interim Canadian Editor of Govloop.com, which basically means I have a few extra passwords. UponRead… Read more »
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is blocking Senate passage of a bill that would compensate the roughly 2,000 Transportation Department workers who were furloughed during an impasse over federal funding for highway and transportation projects. Coburn wants to pay the workers back with $1 million from the congressional budget, rather than tapping the federal coffers. ThatRead… Read more »
Office of Personnel Director John Berry blasted a Friday Washington Times editorial critical of the federal pay system and bonus system. The newspaper criticized the 2.4 percent annual pay raise workers earned earlier this year and $285 million in incentive payments to keep employees from retiring or transferring to other agencies. “The left shrieks aboutRead… Read more »