I’m preparing for a major offsite event with the Command Teams of the 1st Cavalry/Ft. Hood, TX. I’ve been asked to explore new (for me) conceptual territory — Generational Diversity. More specifically, the Army wants me to provide some fresh ideas and exercises for “Communicating with the Younger Soldier.” To oversimplify matters: how can theRead… Read more »
Blog Series: So You Hired a Gen Y – Now Get The Most Out of Them! Phase 3 – Target A Tolero Solutions blog series on how to utilize Gen Y using the Gen Y Recruitment and Retention Lifecycle™ by Scott Span! In a previous post So You Hired a Gen Y – Now GetRead… Read more »
What is going on these days? It seems that the Internet and social networking has made the world flat. What do we mean by this? Well, amateur sleuths can serve as GEOINT analysts by finding top secret locations in North Korea on Google Earth. And, now it was just reported that a Facebook group forRead… Read more »
Where to begin? How does someone who has dedicated the better part of the past 5 years to family disaster preparedness come to terms with the conclusion that people who prepare will always represent such a tiny minority? In this week’s CB2, I’ll break from the oil spill temporarily to present an issue that’s beenRead… Read more »
With the World Cup now at an end I wanted to learn more about the efforts, with regards to social organizational processes, of the United States in this area of the world. With this in mind I reached out to the US Embassy in Pretoria to ask a few questions. They were kind enough toRead… Read more »
Research 1. Pew Mobile Access 2010 (07/07/2010) – A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds that 59% of American adults now go online wirelessly using either a laptop or cell phone, an increase over the 51% of Americans who did so at a similar point in 2009. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspxRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.“ I recently came across this funny (and too true) post by Todd Heim on social media villains that piqued both my long-time interest in super-heroes and super-villains and all things Government 2.0 too. While we pump up the Gov 2.0 Heroes (and even hadRead… Read more »
From Cory Doctorow article in the UK Guardian Reports of blogging’s death have been greatly exaggerated Blogging is not on the way out – it’s just that other social media have taken over many of its functions A report last month in the Economist tells us that “blogging is dying” as more and more bloggersRead… Read more »
Yesterday’s Loudoun Economic Development Commission, Membership and Business Retention Committee (MBRC) meeting officially earned Loudoun, its residents and businesses their “Gov 2.0 street cred” on the Internet. An official Department of Economic Development (DED) strategy, roles and supporting cast are in place, the SEO and website analytics are turned on, the chicklets are published, aRead… Read more »
Tagxedo is one of the free web tools I use rather frequently. I’ve employed it to create a portrait of compliments for a much beloved team member who was heading back to her homeland after her visa expired, to create front pieces to briefing materials that present the crux of the materials in a snap,Read… Read more »