With the announcement of the Clearmark Plain Language Awards on April 29, this is a good time to trot out some tips on writing “plain” for your web audience. I don’t care how good your website design is, if the writing is poor – if you don’t communicate with your target audience – your websiteRead… Read more »
A number of people have asked me about how the recent changes at Ning affect GovLoop. -Basically Ning cut off free networks and will make all networks pay. As part of this change, they had to unfortunately lay off staff At GovLoop, we pay Ning for a variety of services like taking off the ads,Read… Read more »
Originally published by Dave Briggs at DavePress The Telegraph has an interesting article today: MI5 dumps spies who can’t use Facebook and TwitterPatrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary subcommittee on counter-terrorism, told the Daily Mail: “As terrorism changes, counter-terrorism officers have to adapt to keep up. “Our enemies use every available method to attack includingRead… Read more »
Part I of this two-part essay focused on my format for illustrating the concept of “Letting Go” during a 20-minute after dinner keynote for the career transition/support group, Forty Plus. [Email [email protected] for this essay.] I reviewed both the dynamics and dangers of not being able to “let go”: “if you have invested so muchRead… Read more »
The Hokie Guru will keep this short… there’s a great Defense Information Systems Career Fair on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Fort Meade in Maryland. Career fairs like this are rare, so if you are looking for a job in the federal government, the Hokie Guru highly advises that you make the time to getRead… Read more »
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At the National Council Meeting on April 10, 2010, it seems clear that the council agrees that the Student Representative (newly establish voting position on the council) should do the following: Be in contact with students (national and international) and provide students with a direct link to Council. (When I mention students above and goingRead… Read more »
On April 10, 2010 I spoke about ways to get involved in ASPA in the New Member and First Time Attendee Orientation. Here are the highlights: Participate in your local chapter. Come to the ASPA Annual Conference and wear your ribbons (Student, First Time Attendee, New Member, etc…). Others will notice them and will approachRead… Read more »
Wow, this was a great reception (April 11, 2010). Before today I did not know what the Founders’ Forum was or why people wore special ribbons on their ID tags. Anywho, these people were amazing. Paul, Dwight, Jeannie, Toni, and Meredith are just awesome to me and to everyone else. Their hard work really showedRead… Read more »
Sonny Hashmi, Deputy Chief Information Officer, OCFO at DC Government, sent me a note highlighting the new CFOInfo DC Dashboard, which is in Beta. This dashboard is exposing details of the District of Columbia’s budget to a degree I have never seen before, and making it easy for your average user to dig in andRead… Read more »