I recently wrote on the coming of age of the “Digital Public Information Officer (PIO)” and how social media, digital volunteers, and organization is key. (Find the original posting here: Considerations for the Digital Public Information Officer) This sparked a lot of great conversation across the Social Media in Emergency Management (SMEM) community and aRead… Read more »
One of the things that is pretty interesting as you spend some time talking to people about how they look at information to make decisions and what are the things that are really important is you hear about the power of context. So to give a great example we’re working with an organization to createRead… Read more »
Telework is great in theory. No commute, focused work time, better work/life balance. But often times remote workers are too disconnected from the team, outcomes are too vague and oversight is too minimal. Patty Azzarello is the owner of the Azzarello Group and the author of the book Rise: How to Really Be Successful atRead… Read more »
What leadership lessons can we learn from the firing of Rutgers coach Mike Rice? If you’ve been following the news story about how now former Rutgers basketball coach, Mike Rice, was verbally and physically abusing his players, then you undoubtedly know that he was fired and his assistant, Jimmy Martelli, has also recently resigned andRead… Read more »
Federal employees are losing faith in their agency leaders, according to a new report from Deloitte and the Partnership for Public Service. It was the first drop in effective leadership in 9 years. Employees gave effective leadership a score of 52.8 out of 100 points in the Partnership’s 2012 survey, a decrease of 2.1 pointsRead… Read more »
“Government is the air we breathe the water we drink. So it is incumbent among all of us who celebrate it and those who hate it to try to make it better and more relevant. Don’t give up on government. Don’t sit back and passively complain. Let’s have a two-way conversation,” said Gavin Newsom. NewsomRead… Read more »
I am a graduate student at George Washington University and I am fortunate enough to be taking a leadership class with a former high-level government official. My professor has served at the highest levels of government, and provides a first hand account how to lead large, complex and bureaucratic government agencies. Every Thursday I’ll postRead… Read more »
I’m lucky enough to lead EPA’s Office of Web Communications. I’ve written a lot about our social media efforts, but another one of our roles is to manage EPA’s home page. We redo it from time to time, and this is one of those times. Our effort started a couple of months ago with aRead… Read more »
Innovation is one of the many buzz words floating around federal agencies. In a recent interview, Pamela Wright (CINO of NARA) shared the innovation goals of the National Archives and explained two projects that are looking to achieve those goals. As promised, below are three more goals, as well as descriptions two successful projects thatRead… Read more »
On Friday, April 5, at 10:30am ET, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini (@DanGSA) will participate in a Twitter Townhall (#GSALive) in partnership with GovLoop, the knowledge network for government. He will answer questions about his first year at GSA and where the agency is going in the future. Dan alsoRead… Read more »