Prizes and competitions provide one way to stimulate innovation and tap “solver communities” that may not have been leveraged previously when considering some of our nation’s grand challenges. As I wrote this past summer, both on my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, thereRead… Read more »
Just before President Obama boarded a plane to Hawaii, he authorized the Federal pay freeze and issued additional details. We’ve embedded the documents below for your convenience. Also, you’ve been talking about it quite a bit on GovLoop already: – Blogs on the Freeze – Forums on the Freeze Now that it’s inked and official,Read… Read more »
In the never ending search to know “what works,” we have a few choices. We can look to theories, i.e., this ‘should’ work; or we can look to data. Often the latter choice is considered backward looking, or stripped of context. Data autopsies are conducted with the results analyzed and presented as a ‘case study.’Read… Read more »
SHOULD I FOLLOW UP AFTER THE INTERVIEW? Question: I had an interview for a job that I am very interested in about a week and a half ago. At the time, the person I interviewed with asked me to email him some additional info and said that he would get back to me within aRead… Read more »
Citizen Engagement at NASA View more presentations from Nick Skytland. NASA Ames will be hosting a Tweetup February 11, 2011! The event will provide NASA Twitter followers the opportunity to speak with scientists and Center leadership. The Tweetup will include a “meet and greet” session to allow participants to mingle with fellow Tweeps and someRead… Read more »
This might be the best 7 minutes I’ve spent today. The brilliant Chris Flink of IDEO shares thoughts on how Suckiness is an Opportunity. LOVE THIS QUOTE: (a beauty, IMHO): “Next time you bump into something sucky, embrace its suckiness. Lean into its suckiness. Obsess over every detail of its suckiness.” And so with thatRead… Read more »
Does anyone have a job description for a Public Safety Director position that they would be willing to share with me? Please reply to my work email if you do. Thanks, Sherry Erickson [email protected]
Interesting article from the San Diego Union: Federal paychecks top private in county Has some interesting numbers not only from the Federal sector but other sectors as well… Most of the numbers, that were of an interest to me, were the numbers of employees in the different categories. Because of the following quote … “TheRead… Read more »
If you’ve ever watched the awards ceremonies, they usually save the Best Movie or Best Actor and Actress until the very end…so my colleagues at GovLoop have covered the best of everything in 2010 on GovLoop and beyond…with the exception of blogs and forums. So we thought we’d leave the best for last. What IRead… Read more »