Deltek Analyst Amanda White reports. Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded roughly $220 million in health insurance exchange funding to 13 states: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont. These grants will be used to further state efforts in establishing the one-stopRead… Read more »
Passengers on Amtrak’s Downeaster service have quickly adopted electronic ticketing, which was rolled out on a trial basis earlier in November. Original post
The Canadian government has shared their – somewhat lengthy – “Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0″ online. Well worth checking out if you are designing your own organisation’s policy on this stuff. Possibly related posts: What I’ve been reading ACAS’ social networking guidance What I’ve been reading Just because you can say something… WhatRead… Read more »
The government contract process is a mission that you continually need to build on.Creating a sound foundation of team-players, regulations, and business savvycan take your company a long way, but first you need to prove yourself. I have shown you how to use, “Sources Sought a s a Marketing Tool” in an earlier post, inRead… Read more »
Last week (or was it the week before?) I blogged about what I see as a big problem with the issue of global warming: contextualizing it as something “global” instead of local. When you frame something as global, it becomes nobody’s problem. When you frame it as local, it becomes everyone’s problem. I suggested weRead… Read more »
People used their mobile devices in record numbers on Black Friday. According to Mobile Marketing Watch Shoppers in the U.S. purchased nearly two and a half times as many items via eBay Mobile this Black Friday when compared to 2010. Correspondingly, PayPal Mobile announced a six-fold (516%) increase in global mobile payment volume compared toRead… Read more »
Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois. Log data traced the problem back several months to a command from an IP address in Russia that forced the pump to turn on and off repeatedly until it broke. When this news was leaked to the media from aRead… Read more »
For those already in the know about #SMEM and its rather large following this is great news. For those of you that have no idea what ‘m talking about, let me fill you in: #SMEM is the twitter hash tag that a great deal of emergency management professionals are using to track conversations and connectRead… Read more »
If you’re out and about in downtown Washington DC today, you are bound to see a Trikke-riding promotion for GOVgreen 2011 (Wednesday-Thursday at the DC Convention Center). Six hardy riders are covering the Federal Triangle and Independence Avenue (and south) areas handing out GOVgreen promotions and answering questions about the Trikkes. GOVgreen 2011 opens tomorrowRead… Read more »
A quick advertisement this morning. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping to work on when I signed up to be a member of the Board last year: Monthly Practitioner Call Kick-Off: December 5, 2011 As part of our 2012 goals around community of practice, we’re launching a monthly practitioner call —Read… Read more »