Yearly Archives: 2011

A review of Quickoffice Pro HD for the Android Tablet

Every week at CTOvision we will be reviewing a mobile application that makes our enterprise run smoother. This week I will be reviewing the Quickoffice Pro HD for the Honeycomb Tablet. You can use any keyboard (not just the stock) with Quickoffice Pro HD I have been using Quickoffice Pro for 6 months now. IRead… Read more »

To jump-start the economy, is an “Organizational Development Intervention needed?

A recent US Senate hearing on the recruitment and hiring of college graduates made it clear that the Senators as well as the panelists from government and academia faced difficult questions about the future of the workforce and the dismal U.S. economy. The harsh reality is that the marketplace is not producing enough jobs forRead… Read more »

New York City, Pennsylvania to update transparency websites

New York City and Pennsylvania are working to increase transparency by providing citizens with more information and new government websites. Over the weekend, New York City held a hackathon focused on reinventing city government. Pennsylvania also launched a new website, PennWATCH, which will provide citizens with a searchable database of government spending. New York City’sRead… Read more »

Hershowitz: A Hackathon to Recode California’s Laws

Ari Hershowitz of Tabulaw — and a member of our community — is proposing “a hackathon to create a new, open website for California’s laws and legislation,” using the SQL files available at http://leginfo.ca.gov/. Mr. Hershowitz says this effort is inspired by Waldo Jaquith‘s The State Decoded project.

2 Ways to Better Work with Your CORs

I recently had a chance to ask a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) in my class how Contract Specialists and Contracting Officers can better work with their CORs. (For those that don’t know, CORs monitor contracts and serve as the Contracting Officer’s eyes and ears, especially in the field. Oh, and CORs are often experts inRead… Read more »

Poor City Management: City Hall Mistake Accidentally Hires Couple

Here is a very disheartening article from my hometown of Syracuse, New York. On Sunday, the Syracuse Post Standard reported that Eileen and Brendan Caver were unintentionally hired by Syracuse City Hall. The Caver’s quit their jobs in Iowa and were set to make the move to Syracuse, only to learn that a mistake hadRead… Read more »

Does your job title and salary define YOU?

Over the last ten years, I have observed within the Federal government people allow their pay and their job title to define them. Who really cares what GS grade you are, go do some quality work. LOL. I am 28 years old and I have climbed the Federal government career ladder very fast. But, myRead… Read more »