For as long as I can remember I have loved creative writing. I loved it because I knew that anything was possible. You can develop any character, create any setting, lead the characters down any path, and choose any number of events to unfold. You are permitted to develop your own rules outside of theRead… Read more »
Fight for Full Collective Bargaining Rights at Department of Veterans Affairs also to be Discussed on AFGE Radio Show WASHINGTON—District of Columbia Council Chairman Vincent Gray will be featured this week on the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) “Inside Government” radio show. The show will air on Friday, April 23 at 10 a.m. ETRead… Read more »
Full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued from 1937-1975 — derived from the U.S. Air Force’s FLITE database — is available in bulk from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)’s FDsys, as of 13 April 2010. According to GPO, this FLITE file is a text-only file, of approximately 50MB, containing U.S. Supreme Court decisionsRead… Read more »
“New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.” ~ George Bernard Shaw In a bookstore recently, I perused the books on the shelves and a spotted an intriguing title that jumped out at me: “Change Your Questions- ChangeRead… Read more »
Dr. Adam Wyner of the University of Leeds Centre for Digital Citizenship and Professor Dr. Tom van Engers of the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law have posted A Framework for Enriched, Controlled, On-line Discussion Forums for eGovernment Policy Making (2010), a paper submitted for EGOV 2010. The paper arises from the EU projectRead… Read more »
There seems to be a number of people doing some pretty serious thinking at the moment. On the one side there are CIOs and business managers grappling with some very real challenges and on the other some very good work on identifying the key factors that underlie these challenges. I think the playing field forRead… Read more »
Preparing for a Cyber Attack Presented by Jeff Carr (GreyLogic) Thursday, April 29 10:00am – 11:00am PDT / 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT Cost: Free More info and Registration This one-hour presentation from O’Reilly Media will separate the hype from the facts regarding ongoing foreign intrusions into government networks and the targeting of government employees. ItRead… Read more »
As a longtime environmentalist and former Earth Day Organization volunteer, I have a fond place in my heart for Earth Day and what it stands for. And as everyone says, Earth Day should be everyday. Each year, I look at the resources that are available to educate and change every citizen’s daily choices that impactRead… Read more »
Originally posted on http://www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/04/service-leadership-highlighted-at.html. I spent the day yesterday at the “Excellence in Government Conference” focusing mostly on developing a leadership culture within organizations, but to a lesser extent (at least in the sessions I attended and discussions I had) on citizen engagement through social media, a culture of service, and managing actualRead… Read more »
Generally I have used the “generative order” as a theory to understand change. Based on this theory that is based on entropy (also that deals with systems dynamics) following is the brief discussion about when the change occurs. Change affects everybody. And it will happen again and again, when the entropic equilibrium is disturbed. ItRead… Read more »