Burn-in, Burnout, and Workplace Griefbusting: Part I: Discovering Connections among, Loss, Grief, and Ghosts

[If you do not wish to receive my free writings, email [email protected]] Agenda: 1) Link to an Internet Radio Interview with the Stress Doc Click here: The Stress Doc Mark Gorkin MSW LICSW 03/09 by H2O Netwo | Blog Talk Radio or http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theh2onetwork/2012/03/10/the-stress-doc-mark-gorkin-msw-licsw and 2) New essay: Burn-in, Burnout, and Workplace Griefbusting: Part I DiscoveringRead… Read more »

3 Ideas on Data Center Consolidation – Join us Tomorrow – 3/20 for more

As government IT looks to cut costs and do more with less, data center consolidation is one of the key strategies most CIO shops look to. It makes perfect sense to consolidate as there is no reason to have hundreds of data centers for each federal agency as hosting costs are driven down with scaleRead… Read more »

Lost your smartphone? — 96% chance someone is snooping on your data…

Have you ever lost your smartphone? And do you lock it? If not, you may want to rethink that decision. A study by Symantec, the security company, found there is a 96% chance that the person who finds that phone will access it for personal-related apps and information. Yep, 96 percent. The study found thereRead… Read more »

ACT-IAC gets a makeover — retools mission — what you need to know…

ACT-IAC is shaking things up. The government-business partnership will focus more squarely on how they tackle business challenges. IAC Chair Jim Beaupre and ACT chairman Marie Davie told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program why the council is looking to make changes now. ACT-IAC talks with Chris Dorobek by cdorobek What other changes do youRead… Read more »

Check out the final program for the Participatory Budgeting Conference

There are still a few spots open for the International Conference on Participatory Budgeting in the US and Canada, so if you plan to join us in New York at the end of the month, now’s the time to register. Registration is a sliding scale between $10 and $50, which is pretty amazing. The conferenceRead… Read more »

MBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin

Basic Info Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin Why I bought it I like the way Seth Godin thinks. I first saw Godin on TED. The talk not only prompted me to the book but also subsequently write about it here. Moreover, his ideas on leadership and standing out generally appeal to the artistRead… Read more »

Public service innovation – No straight lines

To introduce this post on No straight lines I want to take you on a journey. That’s on the basis that to know where we are and where we are heading we actually need to know where we’ve been. Due to the nature of the work I’ve been involved in for the past nineteen yearsRead… Read more »

Free PMP Exam Sample Question

The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from the Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— You have just completed the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process for your project. You think at least 20% of the risks that you have analyzed may create 80% of theRead… Read more »

This Week In Computer Security

This week in computer security wasn’t as rough as in weeks past, with few major breaches or attacks of note. The real news this week comes in the form of leaked documents, exploits, and emails and an interesting operating system supposedly from the Anonymous collective. Anonymous OS: Anonymous supposedly released an eponymous operating system containingRead… Read more »

Data.gc.ca – Data Sets I found that are interesting, and some suggestions

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Canadian federal government’s open data portal. Over the past year government officials have been continuously adding to the portal, but as it isn’t particularly easy to browse data sets on the website, I’ve noticed a lot of people aren’t aware of what data is now available (selfRead… Read more »

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