This afternoon, I had the pleasure of presenting for the ACT-IAC Human Capital Special Interest Group. My working title was “Surfacing Top Talent with Social Media.” I built on a previous slide deck, adding 6 examples of agencies and people using social media as part of the recruitment and hiring process. I’ll let the slidesRead… Read more »
2011 VA Supplier Relationship Transformation Webinar On February 25, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hosted its second Supplier Relationship Transformation (SRT) webinar. 934 discreet users registered to watch senior VA officials report summary findings from the department’s recent feedback collection efforts. VA Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, Office of Acquisition and Logistics (OAL) DeputyRead… Read more »
Intel Corp. recently launched the website Explore Intel to publicly disclose valuable environmental impact information for its Fab 11 facility in New Mexico. When you go to the site, be sure to click on the “Additional Environmental Data” tab, this is where you’ll be able to see where Intel’s New Mexico facility is improving andRead… Read more »
Last weekend at TranspoCamp East, I met David Mahfouda, co-founder of Weeels. Weeels is a Brooklyn-based taxi-sharing service that launched a year ago. To use it, you just tell the system where you are, where you want to go, and when, and it matches you with a rider going your way. The two (or more)Read… Read more »
NJ TRANSIT launched Twitter accounts to provide service advisories, and the agency’s new online scorecard invites customers to sign up for a survey. Original post
We took a ‘Field of Dreams’ approach to our IRS Recruitment Facebook page.Only a few months after creating our page, job applicants were flocking to Facebook in search of answers to their questions about employment at the IRS. In a little more than a year and a half, we saw our number of fans jumpRead… Read more »
I have been talking to a lot of HR people over the last couple of months and, frankly, it has been surprising to see that most don’t realize the opportunities and risks associated with social media and crowdsourcing as it relates to their business vertical. Why is it crucial that Human Resource managers be deeplyRead… Read more »
Yesterday, my colleagues at DCI Group released an interactive map of the United States that details state government social media participation. This resource displays research that indicates at least 46 states have legislators actively using Twitter and more than one-third of these legislators are utilizing Facebook, putting access to state leaders at your fingertips. TheRead… Read more »
Research Survey connects transparency and citizen satisfaction (03/01/2011) – PEW study finds open data creates a better relationship with government. Citizens who view their government as transparent are more satisfied with the overall government performance.http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/08-Community-Information-Systems.aspx Youth and the Internet (02/23/2011) – MacArthur study finds ways to build youth engagement with digital media. For many, spendingRead… Read more »
Looking to offset the stream of negative tweets about WMATA, a new Twitter account is devoted to extolling the virtues of the often beleaguered agency. Original post