Yearly Archives: 2012

Proposal Mastery: Affecting Proposal Outcomes through Content and Leadership

What separates outstanding proposal managers from mediocre ones is the ability to lead their teams in developing winning content on top of running a smooth process. No matter how compliant and attractive the document may be, most often it is the substance that will distinguish a winning proposal from the rest. Many proposal managers relyRead… Read more »

Storm’s Impact On Amazon Data Center Renews Cloud Concerns

This post was originally published in AOL Gov. To read the entire article by Wyatt Kash, click here. Federal agencies and regional data center operators, including one operated by Amazon Web Services, are still taking stock of the impact of widespread power outages that began Friday night and continue to leave large swaths of greaterRead… Read more »

Monday’s Internet Blackout, “The Analyzer” Sentenced, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut off the temporary servers it set up to help victims of the DNSChanger malware on July 9, leading to hundreds of thousands of Internet blackouts. More here. The hacker behind the 1998 penetration of Department of Defense networks inRead… Read more »

Cleversafe Webinar on An Efficient Approach to Object Storage

Bobby Caudill of Cleversafe is an institution in the federal IT ecosystem. He has a reputation as a great translator between the different languages of technology, mission and policy and his knack in that regard means when he speaks everyone can learn something. We have another chance to hear him discuss the relevance of aRead… Read more »

Go off grid but not offline

That nice Mr Briggs has been encouraging me to post some stuff about hardware. As it happens I’ve been trying out a new piece of ultra-modern hi-tech digital equipment. No it’s not a MacBook Air, ChromeBook or even one of them new Google tablets. It is… drum roll… The PowerMonkey Extreme. Which is basically aRead… Read more »

Estimating Social Media usage within a geographic area

I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the adage ”go where the people go” if you want to connect with customers and service users. I believe it applies equally – if not more – in the virtual world, than the physical world. I don’t pretend to be an expert – far from it – but because IRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: July 06, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Good Things Come in Pairs: One blog post called “Two Reasons Why Municipalities Need a Citizen Engagement Program,” and two sites with social media tools for federal agencies: HHS’s Center for New Media, and a Digital Engagement Guide. But you can break them into thirds. Actually, here’s a third: How to Write theRead… Read more »

NextGen Preview: Framework to Managing Your Career

Last year, Frank Digiammarino was one of our best-reviewed sessions at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit with his interactive discussion “Framework to Manage Your Career.” He helped lead 100 attendees through an amazing 1-hour session where he helped describe how rising leaders should think about managing their government career as well as answeringRead… Read more »

Guerilla Renewal

The other day I took down a notice from the communication board, took it back to my desk, and made some alterations with my Sharpie. I got the idea from Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like an Artist (which references his previous work Newspaper Blackout in which Austin uses a sharpie to black out newsprint toRead… Read more »