As I mentioned in Part One of this post, the Collaborative Society’s main premise is that the (im)balance of role, responsibility and power that exists in a society between the three segments (government, non-profits and for-profits) could provide indicators and even predictors of that society’s health. The Collaborative Society focuses on these types of initiativesRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner As the federal government continues to find ways to move contracted work back in-house, it must overcome some major obstacles. One area that has been significantly neglected is effective human capital planning. As a result, the government’s lack of in-house resources has increased its reliance on contractors to help it performRead… Read more »
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) might get the prize for having a mission that’s the simplest to state, but the most complex to implement: Keeping air transportation safe. You have to click two pages deep from FAA’s home page to find its brief mission statement: “Our continuing mission is to provide the safest, most efficientRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog,“Social Media Strategery.” As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. While it’s garnered a lot of publicity, won awards, and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, IRead… Read more »
The cry for open government is rising and elected officials are delivering. But in the zeal to throw open the doors to the records vault, no one bothered to fully understand the impact except for those of us who actually work for government. But no one wants to hear from us. Politicians only care aboutRead… Read more »
This is an odd post for me, but I’m asking for your vote. The 1105 Government Information Group has announced a Call for Participation for the 2nd Open Government & Innovations Conference, OGI to be held May 4-5, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. The Business Transformation Agency (my team) would like anRead… Read more »
I had the pleasure of chatting via e-mail with Senator McCoy about the power of social media and open government. If you do not yet follow Senator McCoy on Twitter, you should. She is refreshingly approachable and someone from whom you can learn a lot. Q. From a high-level perspective, what are the reasons thatRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from the Intellitics blog (includes screenshot gallery): Los Angeles Budget Challenge: When Surveys Won’t Take No For An Answer Via Twitter today, I came across a new online consultation by the City of Los Angeles: Los Angeles Budget Challenge How will you balance the City’s budget? The Mayor of the City of Los AngelesRead… Read more »
Boeing and Northrop on the tanker program as well as Pratt and GE on the JSF engine program have started to use Social Media to promote their solutions. I reviewed their efforts at http://ow.ly/TLJ0, but I wanted to know your opinion of this approach. What do you think?
FOSE AND GOVSEC, U.S. LAW ANNOUNCE SPECIAL PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY ISSUES AND INITIATIVES Speakers to Focus on Global Approaches to Counter Cybersecurity Threats FALLS CHURCH, Va. – January 6, 2010 –1105 Government Information Group, the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology (IT) market, today announced it is addingRead… Read more »