I wanted to draw attention to a recent piece at Forbes.com, authored by my Deloitte colleagues John Hagel, Suketu Gandhi, and Giovanni Rodriguez. Their post, The Empowered Employee, looks at the emergence of technologies and best practices that are enabling employers who are actually struggling to fill a growing number of highly-skilled jobs, and employeesRead… Read more »
The NCA chapter has nearly 1,000 members, and is the largest APMP chapter worldwide. At our last Dinner Series event, three speakers, Lauren Hammond, Director of Proposal Management and Support for Management Concepts; Dan Shyti, Vice President of the L-3 STRATIS; and Wendy Frieman, Consultant, shared their task order proposal management secrets: Company size doesn’tRead… Read more »
What’s the buzz all about? It’s engagement … and to be more specific, employee engagement! Gone are the days when managers were able to retain employees who had little to do each day; today budgets are tighter and the push for efficiency is running high. Today it’s a Buyers’ job market and the economy demandsRead… Read more »
http://www.homelandsecuritynet.com/HSN/2012/02/baby-faced-bombers/ Afghan police recently arrested four suspected insurgents in the process of smuggling 41 children to Pakistan from eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province. According an Interior Ministry spokesperson, the insurgents were planning on using the children said to be between 6 and 11 years of age, as suicide bombers, saying: “We strongly believe that the childrenRead… Read more »
The White House Thursday made a push to protect the privacy of online users by announcing the voluntary Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights (CPBR). The bill is designed to give consumers more control over the information they share on the Internet. Obama is calling on the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration to workRead… Read more »
Http://LeonardSipes.Com (social media and PR for government, associations and nonprofits). See summary of Pew Internet research on privacy and related media coverage regarding new legislation below. Article: If you listen to Leo Laport’s TWIT network (http://twit.tv/) you will find the finest audio and video offerings and insights on technology. TWIG (This Week in Google;http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-google/) offersRead… Read more »
DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference early bird fee ends March 2! http://www.dodenterprisearchitecture.org/registration/Pages/default.aspx
Come to the FOSE conference for some great talks and networking The FOSE conference is an annual conference in DC that combines offers novel approaches to government technology solutions. Come meet some great government technologists, hear success stories and get excited for the next wave of public and private technological innovations. Find FOSE on theRead… Read more »
Jim Disbrow has been a Science Judge with the Junior Academy at the Washington Academy of Sciences for almost as many years as he has been a presenter at the Professional Development Institute (PDI) hosted annually by the Virginia Association of Science Teachers (www.VAST.org ). Props he lent were from his collection of PDI discrepantRead… Read more »
So is this State Department employee. I’m soooo glad he wrote this op-ed: I work for Uncle Sam, and I’m proud of it He captures exactly the right tone of being proud to serve my country and being tired of being accused of being a lazy sleazeball by politicians of every stripe.