Yearly Archives: 2010

Crowdsourcing at its Best

I just found an interesting comment on a blog at Information Week from Janelle: When the City of San Francisco, the City of Houston, and the Country of Ireland wanted to launch innovation portals to increase collaboration & gather ideas between employees and citizens, they turned to Brightidea. All three programs have unique themes withRead… Read more »

Rhode Island leads the way!

Transportation people are probably already aware of this, but staffers at all agencies are encouraged to check out the Rhode Island Department of Transportation press release about their use of online outreach and social media during the Flood of 2010. The juicy bits: RIDOT’s web page saw a 40-fold increase in traffic at the heightRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Eye Opener: Will new tool cut federal hiring time?

Happy Friday! The Federal Eye gets mail and hears from plenty of readers. One of the most commonly heard complaints is that the federal job application process is too long and confusing. But a new set of government databases promises to help federal agencies cut three weeks from the hiring process, potentially making it fasterRead… Read more »

Do You Know How to Conduct a Symphony. . . Of Negotiation?

As I read this article (http://www.ncmahq.org/files/Articles/CM0410%20-%2068-75.pdf) I had to face a brutal reality. . . I’m stubborn. Now, not pointing fingers, but you probably are too! Society has engrained a “win, win, win”, “conquer, conquer, conquer” mentality in the best of us since the beginning of time. Needless to say, we all need to haveRead… Read more »

Video: Automate Your EEO / OFCCP Compliance Efforts

Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection for every applicant, minimum requirements for every job. Tracking all of this is nearly impossible let alone actually reporting it – until now. We’ve designed an elegant, powerful feature in our popular applicant tracking software to track and report all of your EEO data for you –Read… Read more »