The New York Times reports: Cornelius, N.C., with a population of about 25,000, has stopped printing meeting agenda packages for town commissioners and has given them iPads instead. This is one example of several in a trend toward governments (and companies) using iPads to cut costs and boost efficiency. Read an interview with Anthony Roberts,Read… Read more »
“Know Thy Communication Style” Using SMART Conversations® to speak your truth and enhance all of your relationships. A PublicForum Webinar Date: Tuesday, July 26 Time: Noon-1:30 pm Eastern (New York) (60-minute webinar with optional 30 minute Q & A ) FREE* for Circle Club members $20* USD for nonmembers *Add $12 for telephone audio (noRead… Read more »
Tweet Work on a new telehealth focused broadband network in New York is going forward. The network will link 48 medical facilities in eight counties upstate in order to provide broader access to telehealth in less populated areas of New York. The network is expected to run over 239 miles through the Adirondack region. ACTIONRead… Read more »
I’ve made a bold statement “open source community” so let me digress for a second before giving you the juicy details of Community day at DC’S SharePoint Saturday the Conference (SPSTCDC http://www.spstc.org/Pages/default.aspx). When I started my career I can vividly remember a joint user group or NT Server and Linux Administrators in New York City.Read… Read more »
Government leaders and managers are increasingly doing business using methods and approaches that differ from the traditional contracts and grants process. Today, government leaders and managers need to know how to use innovative acquisition methods that shorten the lifecycle of a contract, as well as how to leverage new ways of tapping into the privateRead… Read more »
Can wind, water and sunlight power the world? Professor Mark Jacobson of Stanford University lays out a plan to do just that. Professor Jacobson starts off by talking about why it’s important to find clean energy sources, and then jumps into the details of the energy options at about minute 8 of the talk. OriginalRead… Read more »
A post by Patra Frame, ClearedJobs.Net HR Specialist. He’s an Intel IT type in a senior management position and he doesn’t have a degree. But everyone who works for him and all new hires do. She’s military and ready to take her enlisted experience and security clearances into the government contracting world. But all theRead… Read more »
It was in my second year of being a Presidential Management Intern when I was feeling rather cocky after a string of successful projects. So, when I met with my boss for our weekly status meeting, I was casually leaning back in my chair just radiating gloat. That is when he leaned forward and said,Read… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Kate Tussey reports. In any realm of government contracting, some states come out on top of others. South Dakota recently found itself on the losing side after pumping an estimated $49.7 million since 2008 into a Medicaid management information system (MMIS) that still remains inoperable. After two years of disputes with CNSI, theRead… Read more »
Despite the assurances of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner it is increasingly likely there will be no debt deal. The United States is going to default on its debt. I know it sounds crazy, but I believe it is going to happen. If it does, this is the black swan event no one imagined orRead… Read more »