The November elections are quickly approaching, and no matter who wins, the next term means a whole new crop of political appointees will be joining government. The challenges facing those appointees are vast — especially in the first two years. Paul Lawrence is a Principal at Ernst and Young. In his new book, Paths toRead… Read more »
Last month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report in April 2012 detailing a continuing issue at the Department of Defense (DoD) that is not foreign across government; the lack of transparency when it come to service contracts. The GAO report looks at two issues inherent in the struggles at DoD; lack ofRead… Read more »
By: Grant Asplund Originally posted on Federal Blue Print In an age where technology is changing in the blink of an eye, there is one thing we know for certain: social media applications and networks are here to stay. While old technologies such as voice and instant messenger persist, more and more agencies are integratingRead… Read more »
Big data it’s the new buzz word taking over government. But what is it? How should you prepare your agency to harness its powers? Thor Olavsrud is a senior writer at CIO. He’s outlined the role of big data with Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program. Olavsrud says there are 3 V’s to bidRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Thursday the 10th of May, 2012 The Pentagon is changing its definition of an insider threats in hopes of rooting out threats earlier and easier. Secrecy News reports, the new definition calls an insider a someone who engages in unauthorized disclosures of information or other activities deemedRead… Read more »
Steve recently posted the question the best employees are necessarily overworked. While I don’t think it’s necessarily so, it does tend to happen in my experience. I’ve been interviewed in the past about work/life balance and have some strong opinions on the topic. I’ll lay out some of my thoughts, and I hope you willRead… Read more »
The United States and India are using open source to create the open government platform. When you examine the concept of the OGPL (Open Government Platform) you can see the promise of better citizen engagement and a more transparent government. You will see the same spirit at Drupal Gov Days as the presenters will shareRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Recently, I wrote an essay about how the open government movement could do a better job of engaging mainstream media, and more specifically how the simultanous Transparency Camp and White House Correspondents Dinner weekend could make better connections. One criticism of this is that the WHCD is too focused onRead… Read more »
The NSW State Archives has been holding a survey on social media use by NSW government organisations to inform the development of an online training course on social media recordkeeping. Your feedback will also help the NSW State Archives to “recommend some specific recordkeeping strategies that will work with both the social media tools thatRead… Read more »
Slides for the talk given at the Leadership Drives Success conference for the Tourism Industry Council ACT. Original post