Some folks were meant to take the oath of office. Some were meant to say: “Do you want fries with that?” They are NOT interchangeable. Do you have new hires at your agency come in trying to take charge? With all the focus in colleges on “leadership” we have been getting a few twenty-somethings comingRead… Read more »
Part 2 – The Rules Past: Part 1 Next there are a number of informal and formal rules you will have to figure out quickly 1 – Time – Spend the first week figuring out when people generally get to work and leave work. How long people are taking for lunch, etc . While thereRead… Read more »
Today I am conducting a tutorial on the “Basecamp” web application from 37 Signals. On the surface, Basecamp is a web-based project management application that is insanely easy to use, straightforward, and truly geared to making you and your team more productive (rather than to packing as many features as possible into a single product,Read… Read more »
#localgovchat kicks off tonight 3/17 at 9 pm EST. Not sure what this #localgovchat thing is? Here is everything you need to know. Tonight we’ll be discussing how local governments manage their websites, how many have full-time webmasters, challenges of coding on a budget, more on fed/state/local collaboration, and any question you may have. AnotherRead… Read more »
I’ve had two critical discussions with folks in the last week about the value of meetings, and how we can get more out of them (or have fewer of them). Then I read Scott Berkun’s great piece from last week, “The Cult of Busy” (based on the essay “Why I Stopped Working with Busy People“.Read… Read more »
Most discussions I’ve been part of about measurements usually involve identifying a desired outcome and looking for a numeric representation of that outcome. This makes perfect sense and there’s loads of research and supporting evidence that having metrics and measurements are an important part of most outcome-based projects. Over the years, however, I’ve come toRead… Read more »
A month ago, I had the opportunity to attend a standing-room-only business meeting with members and supporters of Minorities in Technology Sales (MiTS), a non-profit organization led by Mark Hill, Executive Director. This meeting was exceptionally hosted in first-class facilities by Gary Newgaard, SVP of Corporate Development at ASRC Management Systems in Greenbelt, Maryland. TheRead… Read more »
5 Part Series for New Employees Your new to government and you are wondering…wow…what do I do now.. Any new job is a transition (especially a first job out of college) and government is no different. As such, here is the Mr. GovLoop 5 part guide to getting going…. Part 1 – The Basics ThereRead… Read more »
Top 5 – Ways to Handle a Boring Meeting I’m writing a little series on Top 5s. I’ll write my top 5s on various topics and I encourage you to write yours. Meetings can be super boring. Thus we need survival mechanisms. Here’s my top 5 survival mechanisms. 1 – Blackberry messenger – most GoviesRead… Read more »
Olivier Charbonneau, Associate Librarian at Concordia University, and author of the Culturelibre blog, has posted Collaboration and Open Access to Law, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this new post, Mr. Charbonneau presents a model — called the Collaborative Document Management Framework (CDMF) — ofRead… Read more »