Yearly Archives: 2013

How Can We Protect Critical Infrastructure When We Can’t Even Prevent Message Board Hacking?

Lately we’ve had some experiences in our area with hacking of construction message boards. At first, I figured it must have been some programmers who figured out how to get into the computer system. But after seeing another report of it today, I searched for “how to hack a highway message board” and found thereRead… Read more »

Is Your Organization Grappling with Communicating with Citizens Across Multiple Devices and Platforms?

Learn how agencies are addressing these challenges in a FREE webinar, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. This complimentary, one-hour webinar is presented by the National Association of Government Communicators, FedInsider, and Adobe. Webinar topic: Delivering More Engaging Communications to Citizens Across Devices and Platforms Register now: http://solutions.adobe.com/?elqPURLPage=274 Date of webinar: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Hour-long webinar:Read… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: March 29, 2013

This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok’s contribution. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Bright new ideas edition! Here are “A Few Hundred Innovative Ideas for Urban Governance“ And here’s a “New Report: Crafting a Comprehensive Digital Government Strategy“ Now, the “Boston CIO using gamification to bond city workers and constituents“ And did you know that “ThereRead… Read more »

How to Minimize the Risk of Delaying Your Project by a Customer

When it comes to project delays there are several factors that can lead to such situation. The customer is one of them and there are two issues that can be discussed: what to do when the delay already happened and the other how to minimize the risk of happening such a delay. Customer delaying theRead… Read more »

Philadelphia Making Open Government Happen

Philadelphia is one of the leading cities in the country as far as making government more open, transparent and collaborative with citizens. Some of the great things being done in Philadelphia are: – The Mayor has issued an Open Data Executive Order. – Created an Open Data Guidebook for city departments. – Created an OpenRead… Read more »

Are Your Tweets Getting the Job Done?

A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. The growing number and type of social media give us as communicators an amazing opportunity engage more people directly with government. Whether you are an experienced social media user or are just beginning to take advantage of this technology resource, Leonard Sipes, senior public affairs specialist andRead… Read more »

How I got 4G LTE on my Nexus 4 (on T-Mobile’s Network)

By Ryan Kamauff If you’re interested in checking out some T-Mobile LTE, just follow this easy tutorial The Nexus 4 shipped with an oddity – a 4G LTE modem that wasn’t quite turned on. Many people have done this in the past, but I wanted to give a quick and dirty rundown of how IRead… Read more »

Part IV: The Monthly Development with Pat Mobley

The wait is over, here is the fourth installment of the Monthly Development with Pat Mobley. Oregon’s Brewing Bounty March 27, 2013 It’s March madness and I hope you all participated in the ELGL bracket challenge. My bracket has 12 teams heading for the Sweet 16. For my first installment this year, I have chosenRead… Read more »

List of Entries for the Resume Book – Deadline April 1

So you are wondering who else is going to be in this Resume Book that I keep hearing about. Well to answer your question we are listing the organization and function for each of the resumes that have been submitted. And to answer your other question, you do not have to be job searching toRead… Read more »

Pentagon to reduce # of furlough days – Plus the DorobekINSIDER’s 7 stories

It’s Telework Week here on the DorobekINSIDER. Each day we will follow a telework trendsetter in the wake of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to end telework. On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Telework Week is going strong here on the DorobekINSIDER, people on both sides of the debate have told us their impassioned reasons to teleworkRead… Read more »