Yearly Archives: 2010

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – August 24, 2010

The data, it connects us: David McCandless: The Beauty of Data Visualization Austin Carr: Candidates Turn to YouTube for Geo-Specific Ad Campaigns for Mid-term Elections Sean Reilly: Future of rule making – Pilot project aims to increase public participation Andrew Wilson: Envisioning a More Social Future for Public Health Amelia Chen: Twitter is Buzziest inRead… Read more »

SUCCESS RULE #4 – TAKE 100% RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE.

When asked, most people believe they take 100% responsibility for their lives. Do you? Have you ever blamed someone or something for things that has gone wrong? Have you ever complained about someone or something? If you have/do, you give up responsibility. Recently on Face Book I reconnected with an acquaintance from my youth. AsRead… Read more »

Human Resource Specialist Are Looking For Buzz Words

In order to craft your resume appropriately, you need to use action/buzz words to show that you possess either entry-level, mid-level, or executive level experience. In most cases, you will want to overlap these action/buzz words between your current position level and the position level that you are applying to. The Federal Resume Toolbox hasRead… Read more »

Ultimate Love-Hate: Bureaucracy

I’m a bureaucrat. I appreciate bureaucracy for its strengths and weaknesses. There are reasons bureaucracies have existed for thousands of years. A few — they help leaders retain their power; they keep processes alive; they provide stability; and they provide jobs. Depending on your POV, these reasons can be good or bad. I can tellRead… Read more »

A Selection: Read, Comment or Criticize: It’s your call!

Below I have posted the links for those interested in catching up on some of my previous blogs, which mostly pre-date my joining GovLoop. Feel free to comment or criticize as you see fit. If it helps me (or anybody else) develop, then that’s a good result as far as I’m concerned. 20 July 2010:Read… Read more »

How I Got My Job: Department of Veterans Affairs

Originally posted by Erica Pierson on the Unleash the Monster blog At Unleash the Monster, we are always interested in how job seekers find employment in the federal government and how federal agencies use new ways of thinking to recruit new talent. While we anxiously wait for the Presidential mandate to reduce time-to-hire to bringRead… Read more »

The Speed of Change

Notes From NAGWI “grew up” in IT when applications were flow-charted, lines of code written, compiled, debugged, compiled again, then deployed and hopefully documented. And the process took forever. Ask mainframe users. Early last year, when we launched social media in Morris County, I spent forever (in today’s terms… about a week) figuring out throughRead… Read more »

Suburban Sprawl and Sustainable Communities: Enhancing Mission and Public Value through Open Government and Partnerships

For the last year, I’ve been blogging about the three pillars of the Open Government Initiative—transparency, participation and collaboration—both on my featured series on Govloop and Phase One Consulting Group’s Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog. Each pillar points at the same theme: the Government cannot provide the best value with taxpayer dollars on itsRead… Read more »

Social Media Myths: 5 Roadblocks to Discovery

In recent years, social media has emerged as the hottest Internet phenomenon ever created. Yet, despite its prominence as the number one online activity, the promise that social media holds for governments, businesses, educators, and politicians has yet to be fully realized. This is due in large part to (1) a variety of incorrect mythsRead… Read more »