Posts By Steve Ressler

5 Tips on Where in the World is Gov’t?- Lessons from BGov

Join us on Sep. 21st to See. Do. and Learn about Bloomberg Government with an interactive session complete with tips on how it can help you be awesome as a public affairs official. Limited seating so please RSVP.—————————————————————————————————– I’ve been periodically checking out Bloomberg Government the last month as we’ve been preparing our see.do.learn eventRead… Read more »

Phone Tips & Tricks: “How Many Bars do You Have?”

The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit the Sprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. Many of you might know this familiar scenario: You are talking on the phone with a friend and telling a really great story. You are talking andRead… Read more »

Tracking Deficit Commission with BGOV

Join us on Sep. 21st to See. Do. and Learn about Bloomberg Government with an interactive session complete with tips on how it can help you be awesome as a public affairs official. Limited seating so please RSVP.—————————————————————————————————– It’s a fact, I’m pretty intrigued by the deficit commission. Such an important task but so manyRead… Read more »

Pew Study – 28% of American adults use mobile & social location-based services

Pretty cool new survey from Pew Internet. 28% of American adults use mobile and social location-based services More than a quarter (28%) of all American adults use mobile or social location-based services of some kind. This includes anyone who takes part in one or more of the following activities: 28% of cell owners use phonesRead… Read more »

Phone Tips & Tricks: “Point and Shoot”

The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit the Sprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. I’ve been seeing a lot of images from all over after last week’s east coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene. This got me thinking. Our world has changedRead… Read more »

When Did Statistics Go Mainstream? – 9/8 GL Training

Join GovLoop and our partner IBM to learn how to use analytics to boost efficiency and cut costs in our next GovLoop training on 9/8 at 2pm – RSVP **************************************************************************************************************************************** I remember the first time I got excited about statistics. I was in an introductory to statistics class and was taught how to use SPSSRead… Read more »

Hurricane Tech – What Government is Doing

I’ve been watching the Hurricane bear down the East Coast and been following what various agencies are using for technology. Was trying to put together what each agency should need for communications in disaster 1) Web & capacity- NYC.gov went down for a little while yesterday and people were quite upset. Show’s the need forRead… Read more »

5 Ways to Be Awesome at Public Affairs – Lessons from Playing w/ BGOV

Join us on Sep. 21st to see, do, and learn about Bloomberg Government with an interactive session with tips on how it can help you be awesome as a public affairs official. Limited seating so please RSVP.—————————————————————————————————– I’ll be honest – I’m an unabashed Bloomberg fan. I’ve read Michael Bloomberg’s biography (awesome), respect him asRead… Read more »

Phone Tips & Tricks: All Shook Up? Use Your Phone!

The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit theSprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. This week has been quite crazy weather-wise. Who can forget the moving and shaking we felt on Tuesday afternoon thanks to one big earthquake. With the threat ofRead… Read more »