Human beings are a visual species. We mostly interact with the world through our eyes and that’s why they say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what if you want to use words to make a picture? What if you want to put these words in a visual space that is more easilyRead… Read more »
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Congratulations Dept of the Interior, Office of the Secretary Internship Program. Pathways officially started July 12th, 2012. I believe that DOI is first federal agency to post a PATHWAYS Internship announcement on USAJOBS.gov. Open July 16 to July 23, 2012. Good work HR Specialist: CANDICE.JONES@BSEE.GOV But check out below … this is only a 3Read… Read more »
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This note provides an update on our new Twitter list management system. TwitChimp is a Twitter list curation tool. It provides users with better ways of creating, managing, synchronizing and sharing Twitter lists. It also provides those seeking advice on who to follow to find expert opinions and also provides gist tools to enable usersRead… Read more »
15th Annual EEOC EXCEL 2012 Examining Conflicts In Employment Laws (EXCEL) *** July 31 – Aug. 2 *** Dallas – Sheraton Hotel http://eeotraining.eeoc.gov/viewpage.aspx?ID=df38df67-1b6b-4297-bf43-7ad46a27b84d How much do you know about and understand equal employment opportunity (EEO) and diversity/inclusion within the Federal workforce? Do you know how to effectively manage and work with all employees regardless ofRead… Read more »
The “final” report on Iraq reconstruction was released recently, and I have seen little media attention to the astonishing level of waste, incompetence, and outright theft that the report highlights. How much money is unaccounted for? According to the report, nobody knows. After years of trying to account for the billions we poured into theRead… Read more »
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In a recent story in ITNews, Accessibility checker surfaces errors, John Hibbert claimed that a new Mental Health website, www.mindhealthconnect.org.au, operated by the National Health Call Centre Network and funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, didn’t meet the Australian Government’s minimum web standards. Based on a review using the ACheck tool for theRead… Read more »
Effective 7/12/2012 – I understand the Pathways Program has started. What I am tying to understand is in working with veterans with 10 points preference will they still be able to get into the program using their preference. I am ready to direct many of our Recent Graduate Veterans to this program and want toRead… Read more »
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Sometimes, the scariest moments create an environment for lasting, positive change. And, when the imperative to change is linked to exploding technological options, it can be truly revolutionary. Take the position government finds itself in right now. The public sector lost more than 700,000 jobs since its peak in 2009. The latest economic forecasts suggestRead… Read more »
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Volatile activity Last week we saw quite a shake-up in the stock market with large sell-offs mid-week, and a big rally on Friday to end the week. After all was said and done, the S&P 500 saw a minor gain for the week while we saw some losses in some of the other indices. HereRead… Read more »
Think that plain language in government doesn’t matter? That you don’t need good writers to communicate the work of your taxpayer-funded agency? Consider this Washington Post article on the approaching solar storm: Solar storm incoming: Federal agencies provide inconsistent, confusing information NOAA and NASA provide two different forecasts on the incoming solar storm, “a waveRead… Read more »
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