What percentage of your day do you spend reading and writing email? Raise your hand if it’s over 10%? 25%? 50%? Short answer – we all spend way too much time in email – yet we are rarely given advice or training on how to do it well. Which honestly is weird – a StarbucksRead… Read more »
If you haven’t considered adding Tumblr to your social media portfolio yet, my latest blog post offers seven reasons why it hits a “sweet spot” for established individual and organizational users, complementing and augmenting engagement on other platforms in unique and effective ways. Additional reasons are welcome. Tumblr. Follow the world’s creators. That’s how TumblrRead… Read more »
Rick ‘Doc’ Walker was the keynote speaker at a recent Comcast event I attended at Redskins’ FedEx Field. Fans may remember Walker as one the HOGS, or more recently as a champion for research and cure of Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, Alzheimer’s, and Arthritis (he does an ESPN 980 radio show “2-4 weekdays” as heRead… Read more »
On Wednesday, I will be sitting on a panel for MicroPact’s 462 10th Annual Conference: The Changing Landscape on EEO in the Federal Workplace. Speaking at events like this are typically one of my favorite parts of my job – it’s always great to connect directly with government employees to really learn first hand aboutRead… Read more »
What if you could create the innovation that is most exciting to you, not just work the project your boss wants? What if you could collaborate with a team of enthusiastic colleagues, not some people who care and some who couldn’t care less? What if you could show off your skills in front of theRead… Read more »
Listen, it’s easy to sharp shoot someone else’s writing. Especially when you don’t know them from a hole in the ground. I generally steer clear of such tomfoolery, but to be honest, I read an article yesterday on FastCompany entitled “The $1.3 Trillion Price Of Not Tweeting At Work” and it left a bitter tasteRead… Read more »
I hope you’ll join me next Thursday for the GovLoop’s Government Innovator’s Online Summit, this post will provide some further insights to the State of Government Social Media session, which will occur from 11:30 to 12:30. During this webinar we will discuss how to define social media metrics, best practices on Facebook, Twitter and emergingRead… Read more »
On the DorobekINSIDER Are big data’s potential solutions veering too far into far into a world of fiction? We look at the real future for big data. Click here for the full recap. Thomas was opening up government before transparency was cool. But while the world has changed alot since 1995, Thomas hasn’t changed asRead… Read more »
A baby girl, just taking her first steps, fell backwards, hitting her head on the sidewalk. She looked up at me trying to figure out what had just happened. I looked back at her and started a big laugh. She thought for a few seconds and started laughing with me. Crisis averted. Her mother startedRead… Read more »
Is big data really the savior or is it a fantasy? That’s the question Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, wants to discover. He and his team surveyed over 1,000 data experts to discover what the future of big data looks like. But before we get intoRead… Read more »