Yearly Archives: 2013

TurboTax for Contracts is here!

Some of us in the 1102 community have called for a TurboTax like solution to picking contract clauses for the past few years. Well, DOD has answered our prayers. http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA001481-13-DPAP.pdf

Weekly Round-up: April 26, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Securities. On HowTo.Gov, Justin Herman exhorts his fellow govvies: “Government Must Rapidly Respond to Social Media Hacking“ FedTech reports that “Mobile Security Is Top of Mind for Government IT Professionals” which is important, becuase “For Defense Department Agencies, Mobile Technology Can Save Lives, Property and Time“ GovLoop and Symantec put “CyberRead… Read more »

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Are Minimum Wage Increases Really Affordable?

This one comes to us from today’s headlines of today’s USDoL Newsletter… The full text of these findings are quite interesting: Opinion Poll: Small Businesses Support Increasing Minimum And how would this bottom-up stimulus effect Govies? How many of us feel like they we have “more purchasing power” these days? Would this type of increaseRead… Read more »

Could a customer service centre be a source of social media content?

Just a quick thought: could local authority customer service centres be sources of content for their social media channels? Most customer service departments in councils these days have CRMs of varying sophistication and they must be able to report on what the issues are that most people are calling about at any one time. PerhapsRead… Read more »

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Ubuntu 13.04 Review: Linux for the average Joe or Jane Learning Pool Proud Sponsors of BlueLightCamp 2013 Digital Housing Hub welcomes it’s thousandth member! Building a network of trust around the Digital by Default Standard You should check out our Hangout tomorrow: Cloud, Big Data, IntegratedRead… Read more »

Are We Training Corporations to be Too Powerful?

The following is strictly commentary. The comments made here are mine and mine alone, and in no part are related to The Free Management Library. Powerful corporations taking advantage the general population seems to be the stereotype, doesn’t it? Are, we, trainers, helping them do that? I know this seems somewhat sacrilegious, since I, too,Read… Read more »

What’s more valuable: Listening to your Spidey Senses or your Statistics?

I had a business school professor that said you had to be careful with statistics because it was like driving using the rearview mirror. I’m reminded of that because one of the major things I’ve spent the last couple weeks working on is some financial projections and trying to build out a business case. ThisRead… Read more »