Since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to focus on making performance management practical. I wrote some months ago about the what Fortune magazine called “The World’s Most Modern Management Idea” when companies implemented policies that focused on staff satisfaction, after research linked happy employees to investor profits. This is known as the service valueRead… Read more »
Professor Roberto Fragale Filho of Universidade Federal Fluminense Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Direito and Fundação Getúlio Vargas will present a paper entitled Increasing Judicial Transparency: When Brazilian Court TV Officially Meets YouTube, at ECEG 2010: The 10th European Conference on eGovernment, to be held 17-18 June 2010, at the University of Limerick, inRead… Read more »
I just submitted a draft Wikipedia entry about GovLoop. I’ve made a couple of small submissions to the Internet Movie Database over the years, but this is my first go at Wikipedia, and I’ve very little confidence in the result. Anyone with Wikipedia experience is encouraged to scoot over there and make it better. TheRead… Read more »
Have you heard of B.C.’s Apps 4 Climate Action Contest? The contest challenges Canadian software developers to raise awareness and inspire action to reduce carbon pollution by using data in applications for the web and on mobile devices. But what if you aren’t a software developer? You can still help the cause by sharing yourRead… Read more »
Government and the private sector had a famous competion to see who could map the human genome. Now we have social media helping both with runnaway oil in the Gulf area. People are providing observations and also solution ideas for the crisis. For example, Gulfcoastspill.com has been setup to help. The site was developed withRead… Read more »
If you take a look at current television commercials or tech blogs, you’ll quickly find a great deal of attention focused on smartphones and the mobile applications (apps for short) that are built on top of them. While traditionally focused on the Blackberry-dominated business user niche, smartphones made the shift to the mainstream after Apple’sRead… Read more »
The famous saying goes: “True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.” For you to succeed in winning government contracts, and find customers with whom you will stay for a long, long time – like in a marriage of sorts – you have to carefully match yourRead… Read more »
(WASHINGTON)—The American Federation of Government Employees today responded to President Obama’s announcement that he intends to nominate FBI Deputy Director John Pistole to the position of TSA administrator. “AFGE is anxious for a qualified appointee to be confirmed and from what we can tell, Pistole looks like he might make it through the confirmation process,”Read… Read more »
(WASHINGTON) – Today, AFGE congratulates Sgts. Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd, who received the Top Cop Award by the National Association of Police Organizations. Sgt. Todd and Sgt. Munley are civilian police officers who heroically defended the Ft. Hood military installation against a terrorist attack. Munley and Todd are members of AFGE Local 1920, whichRead… Read more »